150 Pearls\150 Stations- A Method of Praying the Rosary as A Mental Prayer

Info Below On My Apostolate Making and Distributing Rosaries on the Camino de Santiago

This Method of Praying the Rosary assigns a Station for each of the 150 Ave Marias in a Full Rosary. It retains the practice of St Louis de Montfort of assigning a virtue to each decade. The 150 Stations each serve the respective theme of the decade. It is my own method.

A brief word about the Angelic Salutation. It is profitable to look with the first half, so from Ave Maria (to)…Jesus, then desire some excellence in what is looked at with the second half from Sancta Maria (to)…mortis nostrae. To desire we must see our own lack in the excellence.

The first 10 decades afford historical stations. A few go outside of scripture, either to conform with the stations of the cross or with the biblical revelations to Bl Anne Catherine Emmerich. The last 5 decades contain remaining remaining virtues or symbols\roles of Christ and Mary.

I left this Rosary for a pilgrim on the camino in Spain. He found it!

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1 Incarnation (Humility) 

1. Immaculate Conception (Be ye Perfect, i.e. will Perfection)

2. Mary dedicated to serve in Temple

3. Mary desires and prays for the Messiah to come

4. Mary asks to take the lowest position but only to serve him, then she offers to take the highest to be his mother. 

5. The Angelic Salutation (Do not fear)

6. Quoniam virum non cognosco (Humility applied to mind, i.e. you know more about what you don’t know than what you know. To know God you must know less about what man is capable)

7. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum (Humility applied to will, i.e. devotion and promptness in the service of God)

8. Incarnation

9. Mary´s Heart Enlarges

10. Mary’s prayer to the Son, Adoration, Gratitude

2 Visitation (Love of Neighbor)

1. Mary leaves with Joseph to visit Elizabeth, she longs to see her cousin Elizabeth and share her joy with her. 

2. Mary greets and blesses Elizabeth and quickens John in her womb. 

3. Elizabeth repeats angelic salutation

4. Mary sings magnificat

5. Elizabeth repeats magnificat 

6. Mary and Elizabeth sing the magnificat inside the home (symbol of women religious)

7. Joseph and Zachary draw and speculate about the messiah, new order to come (symbol of men religious)

8. They feast together and pray together.

9. Mary stays behind and serves Elizabeth.

10. Mary grows in confidence and sanctity.  

3 Nativity (Joy, Poverty of Spirit, Love of Poverty, the Poor)

1. Mary leaves for Bethlehem with Joseph following the donkey

2. Mary and Joseph look for places to give birth to the Lord

3. Mary and Joseph find the manger and cave

4. Mary gives birth

5. Mary and Joseph adore Our Lord

6. Angels call shepherds 

7. Wise men follow the star

8. Both come and visit Bethlehem and adore the Christ Child 

9. The three gifts of the wisemen and their prophetic significance. Christ is priest, prophet, king.

10. Mary contemplates these things and adores Our Lord. 

4 Purification/Presentation (Obedience)

1. Mary leaves for Temple

2. Bathes before temple 

3. Recites liturgy in obedience 

4. Repeats it in Humility compared to all the other women who have said these words before her

5. Repeats it gesturing towards Eternity, repetitions do this, they point us toward eternity, and Mary is Our Mother for eternity. 

6. Simeon sees Our Lord

7. Nunc Dimittis 

8. Our Lord annointed at altar

9. “This Child is set for a fall”

10. “And thine own heart a sword shall pierce”

5 Discovery in the Temple (conversion of heart, facing harmful fears, Justice/Mercy)

1. Mary realizes she loses Our Lord

2. Mary Prays assumes her fault, hopefully seeks God’s assistance

3. Mary returns to the City (mortifying any attachment to her reputation in the City)

4. Mary returns to her Family (mortifying this attachment)

5. Mary returns to the Temple (mortifies this attachment, desiring to be reunited with Our Lord)

6. Mary cleanses herself before the temple. 

7. She goes into the Temple 

8. Finds Our Lord

9. Delights in his Teaching, yet sees the rage in the very men who will kill him. She understands his fate and likely understands him teaching about his fate. 

10. “Woman” Mary learns she is the new Eve. 

6 Agony in the Garten (contrition)

1. Our Lord wills to enter the City

2. Our Lord gathers with the disciples in the Upper Room

3. Our Lord institutes the Holy Eucharist

4. Our Lord washes the disciples feet

5. Our Lord institutes the Priesthood

6. Our Lord withdrawals to the Garten

7. Our Lord is Given the Chalice 

8. He submits to His Father’s will

9. Drinks the Chalice and sweats blood in agony over the sins of the world and our own particular sins

10. He wills the redemption of the world and his atonement. 

7 Scourging at the Pillar (mortification of will/sense)

1. Our Lord is betrayed by Judas

2. Our Lord tells Peter to but his sword away. 

3. Our Lord admits God is His Father to Ciaphas, the High Priest. 

4. He is condemned.

5. Our Lord is scourged. 

6. Peter denies him.

7. Our Lord is scourged 

8. Peter denies him

9. Our Lord is scourged 

10. Peter denies him

8 Crowning of Thorns (Meekness, despising the judgments of the world)

1. Christ with Pilate 

2. Christ admits he is King 

3. Christ before people, We want Barabas

4. Pilate asks what evil hath he done? 

5. Crucify him. Let his blood fall on our heads. Our Lord morns being rejected by the city he came to save. 

6. Our Lord is condemned to be crucified

7. He is crowned with thorns and cloaked with a royal garmet 

8. He is mocked 

9. He is humiliated and spat on. 

10. Mary morns and adores him from afar. 

9 Carrying of the Cross (Patience) [stations 1-10]

1. Accepts the Sentence

2. Accepts the Cross

3. Falls first time

4. Meets his Mother

5. Helped by Simon

6. Face cleaned by Veronica 

7. Falls second time

8. Meets sorrowful women of Jerusalem

9. Falls third time 

10. Garmets are divided 

10 Crucifixion (Love of the Cross, Horror over Sin, Death, Peace)

1. Nailed to the Cross

2. Stood upright on the Cross

3. 1st hour on Cross 

4. 2nd hour on Cross 

5. 3rd hour on Cross

6. Forgives the Good Theif 

7. Offers His Mother to John 

8. Experiences desolation

9. Thirsts for Souls 

10. Love of Completion, it is finished, Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit. 

11 Resurrection (Faith)

1. Mary’s faith in Christ’s resurrection, his merits and sufferings and love. Love Enemies. Do not Resist Evil.

2. Our faith in our judgment, resurrection, reward for beatitude.  Pearls before swine. 

3. Faith in 8 Beatitudes

12 Ascension (Hope) [choose one of two options Either Hoping in\for Cross, Crown, Crucifixion and 7 Sacraments Or the Names on the Right hand side. ]

1. Hope in/for Crown  Redeemer

2. Hope in/for Cross   Son of God

3. Hope in/for Crucifixion  Lamb of God

4. Hope in 7 Sacraments Baptism\ New Adam. 

5. Confirmation\ King of Kings

6. Marriage\ Life, Fruit

7. Orders\ Good Shepherd

8. Eucharist\ Light

9. Penance\ Truth

10. Last Rites\ Bridegroom

13 Pentecost (Charity; Friendship)

1. Love 

2. Joy

3. Peace

4. Patience 

5. Benignity 

6. Goodness

7. Longanimity 

8. Mildness

9. Modesty 

10. Continency, Chastity)

14 Assumption of Mary (Devotion to Mary)

1. Mediatrix of All Graces (by way of intercession)

2. Arc of the Covenant

3. Altar of God

4. City of God, New Jerusalem

5. New Eve

6. Tree of Life 

7. Refuge of Sinners 

8. Port for the Shipwrecked/Star of the Sea 

9. Destroyer of Heresy, Pure Nature

10. Woman Clothed in the Sun, Crush the Head of the Serpent 

    15 Coronation of Mary (Final Perseverance; Filial Devotion, Abandonment) [Straight from St Louis De Montfort]

11. Angelic sweetness 

12. Ardent charity

13. Blind obedience

14. Constant mental prayer

15. Divine wisdom

16. Heroic patience

17. Lively faith

18. Profound humility

19. Surpassing purity

20. Universal mortification

    

    I also make them as bracelets so people will be blessed by the sacramental and also not forget to pray! This Lady wanted to wear it.

    My Mission and Apostolate.

After a year of walking on the camino and trying to collect and distribute as many rosaries as I could to the people I’d meet I started wanting to make them myself to distribute. Luckily a priest in Rome offered to buy all the supplies I needed for this manufacture a few years ago and he also replenishes me each year when I arrive in Rome. This was such a boon to my work in evangelization because I meet people, particularly when I’m on pilgrimage, and am able to connect with them, talk about faith and then commend the rosary prayer and give a hand made rosary. It had also bothered me for years that cheap plastic rosaries are often distributed on the camino by religious nuns and priests, this gives—according to McLuhan’s medium is the message principle—the impression the rosary is of little value. So I wanted to give people high quality chord rosaries to give the right message: this prayer is precious! So often I am able to pray it with people before parting and if not I always have hand-out guides in all languages with me.

I’ve never seen rosaries made quite like I make them. I make a chord rosary with knots holding each bead in place. This gives the advantage of feel and duräbility with a chord rosary, but the beads are fixed and don’t slide like with a chain rosary. The best of both!