NO! NO! NO!
DO NOT POLITICISE THE HOLY ROSARY!
Have you heard of this? The “Patriotic Rosary“?
C’mon! Just pray the Rosary every day as Our Lady requested at Fatima and as the Church recommends. Pray for whatever intentions you desire - but don’t try to Americanize it with presidential quotes as meditations. And don’t call it patriotic.
Example:
The Apostle’s Creed - For the Conversion of our Nation’s Capital
One Our Father - For the Holy Father
Three Hail Mary’s - For Bishops, Priests, Religious
Glory Be - For the Conversion of our Country
The First Mystery:
“No one can rejoice more than I do at every step the people of this great country take to preserve the Union, establish good order and government, and to render the nation happy at home and respectable abroad. No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means, and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us, so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever Come to pass. The great Governor of the Universe has led us too Long and too far on the road to happiness and glory, to forsake us in the midst of it. By folly and improper conduct, proceeding from a variety of causes, we may now and then get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path before we shall be entirely lost.” George Washington, June 29, 1788
Our Father - For the Presidency of the United States of America
To be prayed before each hail Mary: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over Alabama (name a different state for each Hail Mary) and every soul in that state.”
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia
For the Conversion of our Country
Glory Be
Oh, my Jesus, forgive us our sins; Save us from the fires of hell; Lead all souls to Heaven, Especially those in most need of Thy Mercy. - Priests For Life
(Photo: OL Rosary Cathedral, Toledo.)
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 am
Oh, snap!
I haven’t even had coffee yet, Terry.
Ugh.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 am
That’s the sickest idea since the “goddess rosary”.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Well, the prayer intentions I think are OK, in fact we should be praying for those things.
However, it really gives me the creeps that George Washington is quoted as the lead-in meditation…and the title, “Patriotic Rosary” really gives me the heebee jeebees. Just. No.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
As you stated, pray for your own intentions and leave the Rosary the Rosary. Stuff like this quickly gets out of hand.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:22 am
Crazy.