The Complete Rosary: A Guide to Praying the Mysteries [Paperback]

William George Storey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2006

Most Catholics are aware that Pope John Paul II added five new "luminous" mysteries to the rosary in 2002. But most do not realize this was only one of many changes the Pope recommended in the rosary. In The Complete Rosary, eminent liturgist William Storey presents the full scope of the Pope’s reforms. They include a "focus" scripture text for each mystery, short "scripture tags" for each Hail Mary, closing prayers, and images. The purpose of this material is to convert what is too often a mechanical recitation of rote prayers into a rich experience of prayerful contemplation.
The Complete Rosary includes everything needed to pray the rosary in the renewed way that John Paul II intended. The book also celebrates the history of this great devotion.

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About the Author

William G. Storey is a professor emeritus of liturgy and church history at the University of Notre Dame. His bestselling prayer books include Lord Hear Our Prayer (Ave Maria) and An Everyday Book of Hours. He is the compiler/editor of A Prayer Book of Catholic Devotions and Novenas(Loyola Press). He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: Loyola Pr (April 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0829423516
• ISBN-13: 978-0829423518
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Storey: Why I love THE COMPLETE ROSARY, July 10, 2006

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This review is from: The Complete Rosary: A Guide to Praying the Mysteries (Paperback)

I love William Storey's THE COMPLETE ROSARY for the same reasons I love the writings John Paul II, Catherine Pickstock, Thomas Merton, and Ruth Burrows: from the inspiration of his own interior conversion, he is able to disclose the liturgical and contemplative depth of a traditional devotion that may otherwise be regarded - and often is - as an ossified relic of our unenlightened past. Storey's work on the rosary is historical without being condescending and devotional without being affected. Most of all it helps us reconnect the prayer of the rosary to the scriptural and liturgical mysteries that alone have the power to make the Rosarium Virginis Mariae a wellspring of ressourcement instead of an antiquated pious practice. His judicious use of the doctors of the church, east and west, ancient and new, to illustrate the Christological pedigree of devotion to the Theotokos evokes the ecumenical possibilities inherent in true devotion to Mary. Perhaps best of all, his efforts to show forth the beauties of this prayer reveal the interior re-awakening Professor Storey seems to have experienced that led him to offer this little volume as a gift, as his "attempt at drawing you into the mystery and power of the Rosary as it is meant to be prayed" (p. xix). In this he surely succeeds, perhaps as much because of the love with which he writes of as the beautiful scriptural and liturgical truths he proclaims.