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Can i pray the jesus prayer ( and other ejaculatory prayers ) on my rosary beads and offer up all these tiny prayers for the souls in purgatory?
 
I don’t see why not. The beads are mainly a method of keeping track of your prayers, at least to my understanding.

I remember someone on here saying *“there’s no bad way to pray.” * As long as your prayer intentions are pure then I doubt there’d be an issue.
 
The other day Pope Benedict said that no prayer is wasted. I would say that this applies to your question. I would also pray the Rosary in addition to this practice that you have developed.
 
Thats bascially the Anglican Rosary! You can look at Anglican Rosary beads on amazon! That’d be perfect for you 😃 haha well maybe
 
Praying the Jesus Prayer using Rosary beads is actually is a traditional Eastern Orthodox form of prayer.

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I guess in this post-Vatican II world it’s acceptable. Still, I’d stick to the classical rosary. I trust in Mary. I like what Hugh Thwaites said about the matter of substituting other prayers for the rosary. I can’t remember the exact quote, but the gist of what he said is that if your mother sends you to the market to buy half and half you don’t come home with cream. Cream may very well be better than half and half, but it’s not what you’re mother asked for. Still, I guess there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it. Sometimes I read Psalms instead of the Mysteries when I pray the rosary.
 
Patrick_Hughes said:
I guess in this post-Vatican II world it’s acceptable. Still, I’d stick to the classical rosary. I trust in Mary. I like what Hugh Thwaites said about the matter of substituting other prayers for the rosary. I can’t remember the exact quote, but the gist of what he said is that if your mother sends you to the market to buy half and half you don’t come home with cream. Cream may very well be better than half and half, but it’s not what you’re mother asked for. Still, I guess there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it. Sometimes I read Psalms instead of the Mysteries when I pray the rosary.
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Actually praying the Jesus Prayer on a Rosary Bead goes back further than Vatican II and Catholic Monks in the Holy Land we’re well into the practice.

The prayer predates the Great Schism and may go back to the 1st Century Christians and partly based on the Gospel of St Luke,.

Here’s a good article on it;

norrischumley.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/MJPNYC/20110404174231/

Jim
 
Patrick_Hughes said:
I guess in this post-Vatican II world it’s acceptable. Still, I’d stick to the classical rosary. I trust in Mary. I like what Hugh Thwaites said about the matter of substituting other prayers for the rosary. I can’t remember the exact quote, but the gist of what he said is that if your mother sends you to the market to buy half and half you don’t come home with cream. Cream may very well be better than half and half, but it’s not what you’re mother asked for. Still, I guess there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it. Sometimes I read Psalms instead of the Mysteries when I pray the rosary.
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I like that you read Psalms when you pray the rosary. Sometimes after I pray the rosary, I feel like praying a bit more of the rosary and I’ve taken to reading different passages from Luke instead of going over the mystery that I had just gone over. I feel that way, I’m not just reciting by rote the second time around, but actually thinking about it. Glad I’m not the only one! 😃
 
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