Blessed Rosary broke

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I just bought a new, Blessed Rosary all the way in california and now im home in michigan…it broke. It was blessed by there Archbishop. if its repairable, do I have to still have to burn/burry it anyway?
 
No, if it is repairable, then you can have it repaired and still use it.
 
  1. If it could be made in the first place, it should be repairable.
  2. And even if it can’t be repaired, who says you have to get rid of it?
 
WhiteDove359 said:
I just bought a new, Blessed Rosary all the way in california and now im home in michigan…it broke. It was blessed by there Archbishop. if its repairable, do I have to still have to burn/burry it anyway?
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Hi.

Remember that a rosary is a sacramental, an object that can be a guide to aiding one to holiness. In and of itself, a rosary is merely an object.

A golf club can be blessed. (I’m sure many have. 🙂 ) That blessing does not make it a holy object in and of itself.

If the rosary has sentimental value, I would retire it to a keepsake box with other treasured items if repair is impossible, and use a new rosary. You could remove elements of the rosary and dispose of the beads for the foundation of a new rosary.

God bless.
 
I repair broken and blessed rosaries all the time, my priest sends folks to me for repairs. So it’s ok to repair the rosary. Ask you priest if someone in your parish repairs rosaries. Personally I never charge for repairs, even on rosaries I don’t make, some folks might.
 
A Rosary is a holy item, a Sacramental, you broke it. Accidents do happen! You can just repair it 🙂 If you can. If not, hang it on your wall, or on a statue. Or, keep it in a box for sentimental value.
God Bless.
 
It is not necessary to bless something again if it is only partially damaged. If something is damaged in such a way that it no longer resembles what it once was (e.g., if you lost an entire decade off the rosary or all the beads fell off, etc.), then it would be appropriate to bless it again. Of course, what receives the blessing is the object, not the individual parts (it’s not the Blessed Sacrament), so if a thread comes off your scapular or a piece of metal from your rosary, those things don’t maintain any sort of blessing and can simply be thrown in the trash.

For those things that are consecrated (e.g., chalices, altars, churches, etc.) there are generally clear rules for this in the ritual or given by church decrees or consensus of moral theologians from which one can infer what ought to happen for other less important objects that are simply blessed. For example, if a chalice is re-plated, I believe it is supposed to be consecrated again. If the mensa of an altar is separated from the reredos, it must be reconsecrated before it can be used. If the body of the church receives large structural damage (e.g., from a natural disaster or war), it should be re-blessed or re-consecrated. In the same way, of course, a piece of stone that is chipped off a church or even a piece of gold chipped off a chalice are not blessed themselves and would not merit the entire object being re-consecrated. These sorts of principles should be applied to blessed objects, as well, with the caveat that there aren’t really any sort of rules or regulations drawn up for most instances from what I understand.
 
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It is not necessary to bless something again if it is only partially damaged. If something is damaged in such a way that it no longer resembles what it once was (e.g., if you lost an entire decade off the rosary or all the beads fell off, etc.), then it would be appropriate to bless it again. Of course, what receives the blessing is the object, not the individual parts (it’s not the Blessed Sacrament), so if a thread comes off your scapular or a piece of metal from your rosary, those things don’t maintain any sort of blessing and can simply be thrown in the trash.

For those things that are consecrated (e.g., chalices, altars, churches, etc.) there are generally clear rules for this in the ritual or given by church decrees or consensus of moral theologians from which one can infer what ought to happen for other less important objects that are simply blessed. For example, if a chalice is re-plated, I believe it is supposed to be consecrated again. If the mensa of an altar is separated from the reredos, it must be reconsecrated before it can be used. If the body of the church receives large structural damage (e.g., from a natural disaster or war), it should be re-blessed or re-consecrated. In the same way, of course, a piece of stone that is chipped off a church or even a piece of gold chipped off a chalice are not blessed themselves and would not merit the entire object being re-consecrated. These sorts of principles should be applied to blessed objects, as well, with the caveat that there aren’t really any sort of rules or regulations drawn up for most instances from what I understand.
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in the 2nd paragraph you answerd my next qustion before i could ask it! thank you!!! 🙂
 
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