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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 7, 2018 19:11:38 GMT
Have you ever prayed this chaplet?
I bought one in the Whitefriar Street Church gift shop. It has seven sections of seven black beads. You meditate upon seven sorrows in the life of the Blessed Virgin, mostly drawn from the Passion. I'd prayed the devotion without the chaplet before. I first became aware of it from a John Lacken article in the Catholic Voice.
I love the rosary but I also like the idea of taking up some lesser-known Catholic devotion. The Servite rosary was widely prayed at the time of the Black Death, so it's very old.
I'm a big traditionalist and I think traditions are very important. I have come to the reluctant conclusion that all national traditions are doomed, so Catholic traditions have become correspondingly more important to me.
EDIT 09.10.19: I have since decided that we should also seek to preserve national traditions no matter what.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 7, 2018 19:42:33 GMT
I've only prayed the standard (Dominican) rosary. Does the Servite one involve meditation on the Seven Joys as well as the Seven Sorrows? The Servites have a priory in Benburb, Co. Tyrone but I don't know if they exist elsewhere in Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJ19p7U2jY
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Post by Young Ireland on Jun 7, 2018 20:02:04 GMT
I've only prayed the standard (Dominican) rosary. Does the Servite one involve meditation on the Seven Joys as well as the Seven Sorrows? The Servites have a priory in Benburb, Co. Tyrone but I don't know if they exist elsewhere in Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJ19p7U2jY I don't think so, given that the Servites were set up specifically to meditate on Our Lady's Sorrows: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servite_Order
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 7, 2018 20:05:56 GMT
I've only prayed the standard (Dominican) rosary. Does the Servite one involve meditation on the Seven Joys as well as the Seven Sorrows? The Servites have a priory in Benburb, Co. Tyrone but I don't know if they exist elsewhere in Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJ19p7U2jY No, it's just the Seven Sorrows. I understand that the Seven Joys is a separate meditation. The first sorrow is Simeon's prediction of the sword that would pierce our Lady's heart, and the second is our Lord going missing in his childhood. It's funny that they are the flip side of two joyful mysteries in the Rosary.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 9, 2018 14:40:58 GMT
I agree the seven joys are a different devotion, but I think the two should not be separated too far. I once read a sermon by Canon Sheehan on the Seven Sorrows which carried its account of her participation in the Crucifixion to such an extent as to suggest that Our Lady never had a moment that was not miserable (at least before the Resurrection). It reminded me quite painfully that Canon Sheehan was a depressive.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 9, 2018 16:32:41 GMT
It's extraordinary to think that the Servites were popularising the Seven Sorrows at the time of the Black Death, when you think people would have enough sorrow.
But then again, people seem counter-intuitive that way. When we are depressed, we often want to listen to depressing songs and we find them consoling.
It's often struck me that today, when we have a higher standard of living than the vast majority of human beings through history, we are (supposedly) more outraged by the problem of evil than people who lived much crueller, more dangerous and more deprived lives.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 16, 2018 18:45:46 GMT
I've only prayed the standard (Dominican) rosary. Does the Servite one involve meditation on the Seven Joys as well as the Seven Sorrows? The Servites have a priory in Benburb, Co. Tyrone but I don't know if they exist elsewhere in Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJ19p7U2jY Hibernicus, the seven joys of Mary feature in the Franciscan rosary, as I've just learned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Crown
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