Questions about the Rosary?
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Can you share the story behind how the Rosary podcast got started?
In July 2018, Dr. Mike Scherschligt encouraged a group of businessmen to a daily challenge: Examine their consciences, meditate, and pray the Rosary. But that’s a big commitment, and prayer takes time. The group asked Dr. Mike Scherschligt to record a daily Rosary for them that included all of these components - and to keep it to 25 minutes.
So it began.
The Rosary is completed within 25 minutes, and now it’s often followed by good conversation between Mike and his daughter—demonstrating how fruitful deeper discussion of the topics can be.
Approximately 300,000 people have followed the Holy Family School of Faith Rosary podcast. Will you join us to meditate and pray the Rosary each day?
Why don’t you pray the regular mysteries (Joyful, Sorrowful, Luminous, and Glorious)?
The Rosary does have its own form that has developed through the centuries, and ordinarily one does “announce” the mystery before beginning the decade. However, the overarching essence of the Rosary is that it is an exquisitely contemplative prayer, even though it is accompanied by repetitive vocal prayer. The idea is that as we say the Hail Mary we place ourselves in the company of our Mother and with her we contemplate the face of her Son in the context of the various Christian mysteries.
From the earliest days of the Church, the faithful had the habit of praying a series of Our Fathers and Hail Marys. But under the inspiration of Our Lady, Saint Dominic was unique in the way he used the Rosary as a powerful tool of evangelization in the 12th century.
Dominic went into villages, gathered people, and shared with them the life of Christ. After a short instruction on the faith, he would recite ten Hail Marys with those gathered. As Mary promised, it proved to be a most fruitful form of preaching. Furthermore, Mary said this method would be one of the most powerful weapons against future errors and in future difficulties.
Our Lady is calling us here at Holy Family School of Faith to use the same method.
We invite family and friends to join us in our homes, offer hospitality, a meal, drinks, coffee, dessert, engage in good conversation, and then invite them to pray the Rosary with us.
We pray the Rosary in a new way that is actually a really old way introduced by St. Dominic. We share a short teaching from the Word of God, the teaching of Jesus, and then we pray one decade of the Rosary – and we do this five times. Then, the conversation can continue by asking one another what struck us during the meditations.
It worked for St. Dominic and Our Lady promised it would work in the future. Want to learn more? Discover the history of Saint Dominic and the Rosary in this meditation from Holy Family School of Faith:
Why should I invite people to pray the Rosary with me?
At the end of every Rosary meditation, we encourage you to be an apostle of friendship, good conversation, and the Rosary and to share this with others. This, too, is not something new to the Catholic Church.
We love the story of Pauline Jaricot, a French laywoman who founded the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association. Born in 1799, she was a lay Dominican who received spiritual direction from St. Jean Vianney.
During her lifetime, she united poor factory workers in prayer. She also collected a modest, monthly donation to support the work of Catholic missionaries throughout the world.
Discover more about Pauline’s amazing work and why (and how!) to invite people into your homes with this Rosary meditation from Holy Family School of Faith: