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My prayer life has not been great of late.

This Advent especially I’ve been trying to get back on track and praying the Rosary seemed a good method.

I find that I’m reciting it rather than praying.

I’m interested in how other people pray and meditate on the Rosary mysteries. (Far too often over the years I’ve found myself looking forward to merely finishing it. 😦 )

Any suggestions are very welcome.
Or maybe the Rosary just isn’t for me???
 
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My prayer life has not been great of late.

This Advent especially I’ve been trying to get back on track and praying the Rosary seemed a good method.

I find that I’m reciting it rather than praying.

I’m interested in how other people pray and meditate on the Rosary mysteries. (Far too often over the years I’ve found myself looking forward to merely finishing it. 😦 )

Any suggestions are very welcome.
Or maybe the Rosary just isn’t for me???
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Hi - I love the rosary. There is no “right way to use it”. However, what I do is think of an intention for each decade. On each Hail Mary, I meditate on the intention on the “Hail Mary full of grace” . . then on the mystery on the “blessed are you among women and blessed if the fruit of they womb jesus.” . . then on Mary on “Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of death.”

I repeat this with a different intention for each mystery/decade.

I come away feeling a powerful connection with each intention - a memory of each mysteray and a wonderful intimate experience with Mary.

Blessings,

Brian
 
It’s true, there’s no “right” way to pray the rosary. For a long time I made it really hard for myself, and would get really picky about whether I was meditating the right way. Then I realized that it shouldn’t be so hard. I find that the more I read about the rosary mysteries in the gospels, the easier it is to put myself in that place and meditate on the meanings of the mysteries. I just sort of let my mind wander over the particular mystery in question for a minute or two before I start each decade, and try to grab onto something meaningful for me about that mystery. For example in the mystery of Christ carrying the cross, it might be a desire to unite my own sufferings with those of Christ. And so on.
 
I LOVE the rosary. So much so that I pray it nearly everyday. The rosary isn’t about reciting reptitive prayers. Its a meditation. It forces you to slow down your busy life so you can contemplate those wonderful scriptures that provide lessons to us. Praying each bead is great. But I find the rosary is best when you attach a scripture reading to every Our Father bead. So then you can contimplate the lessons of the scripture throughout your Hail Mary prayers. And if you follow the schedual of the mysteries (a different mystery everyday) it makes the rosary more interesting and you explore your faith more. There are many guides. Some more involved than others.

Follow this link to the Rosary Scripture Guide provided by the Knights of Columbus. Easy. Printable. And beautiful images to also help you focus on the lessons of scripture.

kofc.org/un/eb/en/resources/cis/devotionals/4772.pdf

Pope John Paul II also suggested to pray the Glorius Mysteries on Advent Sundays. And pray the Sorrowful Mysteries on Lent Sundays. So you get a better appreciation of the liturgical season.

:blessyou:
 
Congratulations on your resolution to pray the Rosary! 👍

It’s okay if you find you are just “reciting” the Rosary at first. When a baby first starts to walk, he falls down a lot and it’s a while before he is running around. Say a special prayer to our Blessed Mother to help you out with the Rosary, her gift to us. A wonderful help for me is the following link:

rosary-center.org/glorious.htm
rosary-center.org/luminous.htm
rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
rosary-center.org/sorrow.htm

These are absolutely wonderful meditations to use with the Rosary, and for only a couple of dollars, you can order a book with these meditations.

secure.www.pacifier.com/rosary-center.org/shopcartindex1.html “Praying the Rosary without Distractions.”

The Rosary is a marvelous, beautiful gift, and I hope and pray you will continue with it. It is a powerful spiritual weapon as well. Also, I would suggest getting a copy of St. Louis Marie de Montfort’s book “The Secret of the Rosary” which you can get for as little as 43 cents at Amazon.com

amazon.com/Secret-Rosary-Saint-Louis-Montfort/dp/0910984042
 
I have a little blue and white book titled Scriptural Rosary and I find it very helpful.
 
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