Christ Rosary

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The Christ rosary is prayed on such a pearl necklace.

The Christ Rosary is a Protestant modification of the Rosary .

development

The Christ Rosary has its roots in the 1960s, in an effort by the Protestant Michael Brotherhood to regain the meditative mode of prayer for Protestantism .

In the course of these efforts Paul Rohleder developed what he called the wreath prayer, a prayer that should lead to biblical contemplation. However, this way of prayer could not prevail. She lacked the simple and recurring other meditative prayers such as the Catholic rosary. However, the praying of the rosary could not simply be adopted by the Protestants, as it seemed theologically questionable whether it would make sense to call on Mary praying.

This is where Rudolf Ehrat , Herbert Golzen and Walter Stökl come in. They wanted to keep the well-known and proven structure of the rosary, including the name and the same prayer beads, and only change the repeating frame verse.

Frame vers

The Christ Rosary differs from the Rosary mainly in that instead of the Ave Maria with its mysteries, another frame verse with its own mysteries is prayed:

An earlier formulation read:

Praise be to the Lord, Almighty and Merciful, Son of God and Mary, Jesus, the [...] (insertion of the mystery).
We adore you, Lord Jesus Christ and benede you, in your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

In the current fifth edition of the Evangelical Book of Times, the frame verse is called (theologically more precise):

Praised be he who comes in the name of the Lord: Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Mary, who […] (insertion of the mystery).
We adore you, Lord Jesus Christ, and we praise you, for through your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

Considerations of the salvation mystery of Christ are used as secrets:

  • the incarnate Lord
  • the suffering lord
  • the risen Lord
  • the exalted lord
  • the Lord of his Church
  • the lord of angels
  • the son of the virgin mary
  • the lord of his witnesses

Secrets

There are eight pre-formulated series of secrets, each with five secrets. The first four rows of secrets are based on the times of the church year. They deal with the topics: Incarnation, suffering, resurrection and exaltation of Jesus. The other four deal with the topic “Holy Church - Communion of the Saints” with the areas “The Lord of the Church”, “The Service of Angels”, “The Mother of the Lord” and “The Cloud of Witnesses”.

For example, the secrets of The Lord of the Church series are:

  • who is with us to the end of the world.
  • he sits at the right hand of God the Father.
  • who guides his church by the Holy Spirit.
  • who satisfies our hunger with the bread of life.
  • who brings his people together from the ends of the earth.

Prayerfully

Schematic representation of the Christ Rosary

The Christ Rosary is prayed as follows:

  • In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. - Amen.
  • Apostolic Creed , the cross is held in the hand,
  • Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as in the beginning, so now and always and forever. - Amen.
  • Our Father , at the first great pearl,
  • three times the frame verse with inserted requests, on the following three small beads,
    1. about faith: who increase faith in us ,
    2. about hope: who strengthens hope in us and
    3. about love: who ignites love in us ,
  • Glory to the father and afterwards
  • The frame verse is divided into groups of ten (laws) fifty times. In each group of ten, after the first part of the frame verse, a so-called secret is inserted, a belief that comes from the New Testament and looks at the life of Jesus.

Each law begins with the Our Father (on the large pearl) and ends with the glory be to the Father (on the large pearl).

literature

  • Rudolf Ehrat: The Christ Rosary. In: Quatember . Vol. 54, 1990, ISSN  0341-9495 , pp. 86-90, available online .
  • Patrick Fries: The Christ Rosary in the Protestant diary - a chance for ecumenical spirituality? In: Liturgical Yearbook. Vol. 55, 2005, ISSN  0024-5100 , pp. 39-56.
  • The order of prayer of the Christ Rosary. On the website www.tagzeiten.de .
  • Martin Lätzel: Evangelical Rosary? Low-threshold offer for contact with God. In: North Elbian voices. Vol. 11, 2004, ISSN  0938-3697 , pp. 5-7.
  • Beda Müller: The rosary. In: Quatember. Vol. 54, 1990, pp. 30-33, available online .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft (Ed.): Evangelisches Tagzeiten-Buch. 5th revised edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht et al., Göttingen et al. 2003, ISBN 3-525-60290-1 .