Liam Ronan My cure for dryness /it happens to everyone/ is a way of saying Rosary and asking for virtues. From little book dated 1926 "Rosary Novenas to our Lady" I borrowed with some changes a certain way of saying the Rosary. I'll give you a couple of examples: Visitation, at the end I say "I bind these snow-white roses with a petition for the virtue of Charity and humbly lay this bouquet at Thy …More
Liam Ronan My cure for dryness /it happens to everyone/ is a way of saying Rosary and asking for virtues. From little book dated 1926 "Rosary Novenas to our Lady" I borrowed with some changes a certain way of saying the Rosary. I'll give you a couple of examples:
Visitation, at the end I say "I bind these snow-white roses with a petition for the virtue of Charity and humbly lay this bouquet at Thy /Mary's/ feet."
Agony in the grotto of the Garden of Gethsemane, after 'our Father and Hail Marys' I say: I bind these blood-red roses with a petition for the virtue of Resignation to the Will of God, and humbly lay this bouquet at Thy feet."
One more example - Coronation of our Blessed Mother in Heaven as Its Queen, I say after the prayers "I bind these yellow roses with a petition for the virtue of Union with Thee, and humbly lay this bouquet at Thy feet."
I also ask to bind these roses with my children /and others/ for their health and salvation.
That way, even if I don't put too much feeling into the Rosary, at least I ask for something important - virtues. Of course, I add some other petitions as well, it's not written in stone.
Rogier van der Weyden - Descent from the Cross - Detail women (left, tears):
@andrew24157 I have to confess that I am not certain what it means to 'say your rosary well', or fervently, or devoutly. Those terms have always made me feel that reciting the rosary every day and not 'feeling' something is to be missing something irreplaceably important. There are people who suffer from dryness in prayer; sometimes for years. Is that saying the rosary well?
