The Holy Rosary for Discerning Hearts – Our Lady’s Garden of Prayer

Summary: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/themostholyrosary.jpg)Outside of the Sacramental prayers of the Church, for me, there is no other prayer more important then the prayerful recitation/meditation/contemplation of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our late great Holy Father, Pope John Paul II put it beautifully in His Apostolic Letter On the Rosary of the Virgin Mary: (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html) "A path of contemplation" "But the most important reason for strongly encouraging the practice of the Rosary is that it represents a most effective means of fostering among the faithful that commitment to the contemplation of the Christian mystery which I have proposed in the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20010106_novo-millennio-ineunte_en.html) as a genuine “training in holiness”: “What is needed is a Christian life distinguished above all in the art of The Rosary belongs among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation. Developed in the West, it is a typically meditative prayer, corresponding in some way to the “prayer of the heart” or “Jesus prayer” which took root in the soil of the Christian East."-  His Apostolic Letter On the Rosary of the Virgin Mary (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html) Please take some time to check out the Discerning Hearts "Holy Rosary Page" (http://www.discerninghearts.com/?page_id=1021) Audio mp3 download/podcasts of the Holy Rosary (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ourladyoftherosary.jpg)Joyful Mysteries Sorrowful Mysteries Download (http://www.discerninghearts.com/Devotionals/Rosary-Sorrowful-Mysteries.mp3) (right click & choose "Save Link As") Luminous Mysteries Download (http://www.discerninghearts.com/Devotionals/Rosary-Luminous-Mysteries.mp3) (right click & choose "Save Link As") Glorious Mysteries Download (http://www.discerninghearts.com/Devotionals/Rosary-Glorious-Mysteries.mp3) (right click & choose "Save Link As") (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/51ZH9EM9RTL__SL110_.jpg) meditative music  provided by