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[siggen1.livejournal.com]

Um... I'm not catholic, so I don't really know this stuff.
Would Father Mulcahy, being a priest and all, pray his rosary in Latin or English?

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

The "luminous mysteries" were added by Pope John Paul II, the first addition to rosary-prayers in centuries, I think.

The tradition of saying different mysteries on different days of the week is pre-Vatican II, I think (so this site (http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/week.html) seems to suggest).

If you want to know about what Mulcahy would have had to do routinely, suggest you do a search on "Holy Office" - all priests were required to recite all 150 of the psalms every week, at certain hours of the day, pre-Vatican II - post Vatican II this got extended to 150 every month, I think.

(Vatican II was 1962-1965. Everything Mulcahy does as a priest at the time of the Korean war would have been pre-VII, or ought to have been, though the series was of course written ten to twenty years post-VII, and mostly before JPII began to roll back some of the changes made by VII. So in a sense - I hadn't thought of this before - Mulcahy is a priest with a lot of post-VII attitudes, but undoubtedly using pre-VII ritual.)