Legion of Mary Blog

-Pope John Paul II suggests to sing the “Glory Be” when praying the Rosary, and to state a scripture quote after anouncing the mystery.  [note: chanting the 'Glory be' and stating a short scripture quote are allowed in praesidium Rosary].

-10 days after Christ’s Assention, the Holy Spirit descends from the Risen Christ onto the apostles

-The gifts of the Holy Spirit should be begged for in prayer. 

From Rosarium Virginis Mariae:

The “Gloria”34. Trinitarian doxology is the goal of all Christian contemplation. For Christ is the way that leads us to the Father in the Spirit. If we travel this way to the end, we repeatedly encounter the mystery of the three divine Persons, to whom all praise, worship and thanksgiving are due. It is important that the Gloria, the high-point of contemplation, be given due prominence in the Rosary. In public recitation it could be sung, as a way of giving proper emphasis to the essentially Trinitarian structure of all Christian prayer.

To the extent that meditation on the mystery is attentive and profound, and to the extent that it is enlivened – from one Hail Mary to another – by love for Christ and for Mary, the glorification of the Trinity at the end of each decade, far from being a perfunctory conclusion, takes on its proper contemplative tone, raising the mind as it were to the heights of heaven and enabling us in some way to relive the experience of Tabor, a foretaste of the contemplation yet to come: “It is good for us to be here!” (Lk 9:33).