Best way to dispose of rosary?

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I broke one of my rosary’s (I have a home one and one for my travels) and I fixed it back together but it is missing one of the bead’s so I have to do two prayers on a bead. I will be getting a replacement one soon but will no longer use the broken one when I do. I feel it might be vulgar to throw it away so any suggestions as to what I should do? I don’t think I can burn it for what it is partially made of, so can I bury it? Or maybe just hang it somewhere in nature?
 
Slip it under an atheist’s pillow 🙂

In all seriousness, here are some responses, taken from the article in the link at the bottom:

“… the proper way to dispose of blessed objects is to burn or bury them, whichever is more appropriate in each case… these objects should not be put in the rubbish bin… Solid objects such as Rosaries, damaged crucifixes, statues, etc. are most appropriately buried.” (Fr. John Flader)

God bless you.

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Mother Angelica said that she takes these kinds of unusable religious articles and puts them into new construction. So, if they are building a place, she would put it in the foundation of a place. So, you’d have all these blessed objects there.
 
lotus_in_bloom said:
I broke one of my rosary’s (I have a home one and one for my travels) and I fixed it back together but it is missing one of the bead’s so I have to do two prayers on a bead. I will be getting a replacement one soon but will no longer use the broken one when I do. I feel it might be vulgar to throw it away so any suggestions as to what I should do? I don’t think I can burn it for what it is partially made of, so can I bury it? Or maybe just hang it somewhere in nature?
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You can send it to the nuns at the Abbey of St. Walburga. They use old rosaries and jewelry to make new rosaries.

You might see if any nuns or religious sisters in your area do the same if you don’t want to send it to Colorado.

Gertie
 
littlestsouls2 said:
Slip it under an atheist’s pillow 🙂

In all seriousness, here are some responses, taken from the article in the link at the bottom:

“… the proper way to dispose of blessed objects is to burn or bury them, whichever is more appropriate in each case… these objects should not be put in the rubbish bin… Solid objects such as Rosaries, damaged crucifixes, statues, etc. are most appropriately buried.” (Fr. John Flader)

God bless you.

catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=3&subclassID=59&articleID=3922&class=Features&subclass=Question%20Time
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When my Mother passed away, she had so many books, video’s, statues and more, we gave boxes & boxes to the Priest for a Video library! As for the statues, slightly broken ones etc, not having a clue what to do with them, (throwing them out didn’t feel right) My sister and I decided that the best thing we could do is surround my Mum with them, so when we went for the ‘viewing’ we took a carrier bag of these with us and hid them around her coffin… 😊
 
You can send it to me…I use these old broken rosaries to repair other’s people’s broken rosaries.
PM me if you want to send it.
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Give them to the grey haired sacristans at Church. They will rebuild it or add it to the burn box.

-Tim-
 
GoldenLight said:
When my Mother passed away, she had so many books, video’s, statues and more, we gave boxes & boxes to the Priest for a Video library! As for the statues, slightly broken ones etc, not having a clue what to do with them, (throwing them out didn’t feel right) My sister and I decided that the best thing we could do is surround my Mum with them, so when we went for the ‘viewing’ we took a carrier bag of these with us and hid them around her coffin… 😊
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I wish I had thought of that. 😊

I have boxes of prayer books, prayer cards, statues, medals and stuff. I am slowly giving it away. But it will take years to pass out all of it.
 
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