Broken rosary

[Treytot99]

I’m probably going to get alot of hate for this, but oh well. So today after I was done praying the rosary, I was looking at the crucifix on the rosary itself, I thought to myself that Would make a nice necklace, so I ended up carefully prying the chain of the top of the crucifix, and putting the crucifix on a bare metal chain to wear it, with all good intentions and not just as an accessory. So my question is, is what I did a serious sin? Is the crucifix still “valid” so to speak. What should i do with the remaining part of the rosary? Thanks.

(Btw. Sorry if this is offensive, but I could not find anything online about this matter, so I have to ask here

 

[pianistclare]

It’s not a sin.
If you want someone to repair the rosary, mail it to me.
if you want to wear the crucifix as a necklace, that’s fine, just replace the crucifix with another one. I can do that for you as well.

 

[porthos11]

I’m probably going to get alot of hate for this, but oh well. So today after I was done praying the rosary, I was looking at the crucifix on the rosary itself, I thought to myself that Would make a nice necklace, so I ended up carefully prying the chain of the top of the crucifix, and putting the crucifix on a bare metal chain to wear it, with all good intentions and not just as an accessory. So my question is, is what I did a serious sin? Is the crucifix still “valid” so to speak. What should i do with the remaining part of the rosary? Thanks.

(Btw. Sorry if this is offensive, but I could not find anything online about this matter, so I have to ask here

No, there is no sin in this at all. There was no disrepect intended towards the crucifix and it appears you took great care to preserve it. So it’s all good.

What’s probably the case now, though, is that because the Rosary itself has been broken, if it was blessed before, it probably loses its blessing and if you do decide to have it repaired, you could have it re-blessed.

As for the crucifix, since it was originally part of the Rosary and is now a necklace, it probably merits its own blessing now, so you can bring it to a priest for that.

 

[pianistclare]

No, there is no sin in this at all. There was no disrepect intended towards the crucifix and it appears you took great care to preserve it. So it’s all good.

What’s probably the case now, though, is that because the Rosary itself has been broken, if it was blessed before, it probably loses its blessing and if you do decide to have it repaired, you could have it re-blessed.

As for the crucifix, since it was originally part of the Rosary and is now a necklace, it probably merits its own blessing now, so you can bring it to a priest for that.

Once blessed, always blessed.

 

[porthos11]

Once blessed, always blessed.

Not always. An object loses its blessing when it’s sold (i.e. for a profit), or when it is significantly changed that it is no longer usable for its original purpose. A blessed Rosary, for example can be respectfully dismantled, at which time it loses its blessing. Its parts can then be reused for other purposes, such as necklaces described by the poster.

The situation described by the OP is sufficiently close to the purpose of the crucifix changing such that a new blessing is called for.

sistersofcarmel.com/sacramentals.php

 

[Crown_of_Stars]

It seems all of your motives are to be respectful, so I would say you’re not doing anything wrong. I’ve worn a little mini-rosary (the kind you say a nine-day novena on) as a bracelet, with the little crucifix still attached. It was very loose on me, but could stay on. I wore it around the library where I work quite a few times as an expression of my faith.

 

[pianistclare]

Not always. An object loses its blessing when it’s sold (i.e. for a profit), or when it is significantly changed that it is no longer usable for its original purpose. A blessed Rosary, for example can be respectfully dismantled, at which time it loses its blessing. Its parts can then be reused for other purposes, such as necklaces described by the poster.

The situation described by the OP is sufficiently close to the purpose of the crucifix changing such that a new blessing is called for.

sistersofcarmel.com/sacramentals.php

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Your link speaks of desecration. Simply re-purposing a blessed item is not desecration if he intends to wear it devoutly.

 

[Thomas_White]

I agree. There is nothing wrong here. When I was a kid, I experienced the thin wire on more than one inexpensive Rosary break. I recall I used at least one crucifix from such a broken Rosary in the same way as the OP and wore it for quite some time. I’m sure it never even occurred to me that there could be anything wrong in doing this. From my point of view, I was taking a crucifix from a broken and no longer usable Rosary and putting it back to a useful purpose. I very much liked that particular crucifix and thought of this as a good thing to do.

 

[CatholicFireman]

Not always. An object loses its blessing when it’s sold (i.e. for a profit), or when it is significantly changed that it is no longer usable for its original purpose. A blessed Rosary, for example can be respectfully dismantled, at which time it loses its blessing. Its parts can then be reused for other purposes, such as necklaces described by the poster.

The situation described by the OP is sufficiently close to the purpose of the crucifix changing such that a new blessing is called for.

sistersofcarmel.com/sacramentals.php

I’ve had my rosary repaired by the good sisters. They returned it with a note stating, “blessed by a priest”.