Vigil vs Rosary - What's the difference?
vigil | rosary |
A watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person.
A period of observation or surveillance.
The eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
A series of prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of Hail Marys, each decade beginning with Our Father'' and ending with a ''Glory Be to the Father , sometimes including other prayers used in Roman Catholicism, and the Anglican, Lutheran, and Old Catholic churches.
A string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in praying or mantras, and particularly in counting the prayers said in a rosary, by members of various religions or denominations other than Roman Catholicism such as Hinduism or the Anglican Church
A series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
* Jeremy Taylor
A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
As nouns the difference between vigil and rosary
is that vigil is a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person while rosary is a series of prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of hail marys, each decade beginning with our father'' and ending with a ''glory be to the father , sometimes including other prayers used in roman catholicism, and the anglican, lutheran, and old catholic churches.vigil
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* lookout, look-out, qui vive, watchrosary
Noun
(rosaries)- Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night.
See also
* amulet * medallion * talismanDerived terms
* keep your rosaries off my ovariesExternal links
*Information about Rosaries
