Flagellation of Christ

How to Pray the Rosary

1. Begin by making the Sign of the Cross.
2. Recite the Our Father.
3. Recite a Hail Mary on each of these three beads.
4. Recite the Glory Be.
5. Recite 10 Hail Marys, one for each bead of the decade.
6. Recite a Glory Be.
7. Recite 10 Hail Marys, one for each bead of the decade.
8. Recite a Glory Be.

The Holy Rosary (/ˈroʊzəri/; Latin: rosarium, in the sense of “crown of roses” or “garland of roses”), also known as the Dominican Rosary, or simply the Rosary, refers to a set of prayers used in the Catholic Church and to the string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.

For the purposes of the Rosary, these are called mysteries. The focus is always on Jesus….

• The Agony of Christ in the Garden.
• The Scourging at the Pillar.
• The Crowning with Thorns.
• The Carrying of the Cross.
• The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord on the Cross.

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple – 5th Joyful Mystery of the Rosary.

Annunciation, also called Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, in Christianity, the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a son by the power of the Holy Spirit to be called Jesus (Luke 1:26–38).

From the earliest recorded history, the feast has been celebrated on March 25, commemorating both the belief that the spring equinox was not only the day of God’s act of Creation but also the beginning of Christ’s redemption of that same Creation. All Christian antiquity held 25 March as the actual day of Jesus’ death.

The New Testament names James the Just, Joses, Simon, and Jude as the brothers (Greek adelphoi) of Jesus (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:55, John 7:3, Acts 1:13, 1 Corinthians 9:5).

Specifically, Luke 2:12-13 — “Some tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, ‘Teacher, what are we to do?’ Don’t collect more than is legal, he told them.” And in Romans 13:6-7, St. Paul writes, “That is also why you pay taxes, because the authorities are working for God when they fulfill their duties.

“Render unto Caesar” is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ).

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?