Can one pray the Rosary while in Mass?

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Margaret_Ann said:
When I used to go on retreat, we would do our first meditation of the day during Mass (TLM).
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During Mass or before Mass? How can you participate in the liturgy which has it’s own strict set of parts that flow one from another? Did you folks insert the rosary somewhere, like after the Nicene creed or the Lords prayer perhaps? Please respond in how you did this.
 
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Is the girl at Mass or a rosary recital? These are two different things. Saying the rosary before Mass is just fine, but during the Holy Sacrifice not so much. Tell me friend, would you have a problem if right after saying the Nicene Creed the priest decided that everyone would now recite the rosary in it’s entirety?
 
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This is immaterial. At Mass you have everything concerning the mysteries of Christ being brought out right before everyone in real time - the rosary is not needed. Keep the rosary for when you are home and alone, or praying it with others. What next, should people also be praying the Stations of the Cross too as they also mimic what is in the liturgy? Place and time my friend, place and time.
 
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Again, you have Calvary represented and you want to pray a less powerful prayer while that’s going on.
 
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Again, you have Calvary represented and you want to pray a less powerful prayer while that’s going on.
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What these folks advocate doing during Holy Mass makes no sense. You are correct, the highest prayer we can offer God and they want to ignore it. The truth is our being at the foot of the Cross should take all of our attention. Perhaps our friends should just stay home and pray the rosary?
 
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The priest would go over the subject of the meditation, then vest and start the Mass. It was a Low Mass so it was the priest and Brother who did the responses.

You associated the parts of the Mass with the topic of the meditation (which iirc was either judgement or hell).
 
I am guilty of no such thing. All I am advocating is for this to be done at a proper time and place. I personally say the rosary several times a week, but I would never think to pray it at Mass. Such a thing to me would be completely and wholly disrespectful to Our Lord.
 
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No. Popes approved it as a discipline, which has changed. That practice in itself is an innovation.
 
But informally repudiated. The only difference is with adjectives.
 
May I ask the people who are so ‘against’ this practice why they are so concerned?

I mean, let’s face it. Most people are not going to tell you to your face “I pray the rosary at Mass”. You usually aren’t going to be able to tell if the man or woman 15 pews over is saying the rosary at Mass. Nobody is standing around with placards saying, “Free the Rosary at Mass”.

And the same people who tell us, “It doesn’t matter how we dress, all that matters is coming to Mass”, or “it doesn’t matter if we hold hands at Mass” or “it doesn’t matter if the priest changes some words” or if Laypeople read the gospel at Mass etc., somehow they are the ones who get all bent out of shape if a woman wears a veil, or a man wears a suit and tie, or people pray the rosary at Mass, or want to kiss the bishop’s ring. . .

I just don’t get the cognitive dissonance here. It’s all, “Anything and everything is OK, even if it tweaks the rules or is different from Catholic customs from the past”. . .but let somebody engage in an actual Catholic custom that dates from before 1970 and the pearls get clutched and the fingers get wagged of how ‘disobedient’ that person is, how that person is disrespectful to the Pope and the Vatican and is obviously a soul full of pride and any of these ‘things’ are not just outdated but bad and wrong and always were. . .

Why oh why can’t people just let this alone, and say something like, “Well it should be up to the individual? Some people will find it helpful for their participation at Mass, and some won’t. So if it helps you, great. If it doesn’t, don’t do it.

Edited to add that this is not addressed at any particular poster here, especially anyone who has commented on this thread one way or the other. I am not ‘calling out’ anybody.
 
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TomH1 said:
I would say it depends.

At a Mass in the Ordinary Form - no! Because that requires your active participation.

At a Mass in the Extraordinary Form - yes! Because that requires a lot less active participation on your part.
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No, I disagree.

I attend the Latin Mass regularly. When attending the Latin Mass, one should be reading and praying the mass by using a missal.

The only time praying the Rosary would be ok during mass is if you can’t understand the language, you don’t have a missal to read/pray the mass, & you have no idea what part of the Mass Father is at at.

So praying the Rosary would be better than sitting idle.

Great example: let’s say you are at a mass in another country, where you don’t understand the language. Praying the Rosary during a homily that you don’t understand would be better than having idol thought.

Otherwise, you should be attempting to focus on the prayers of the Mass.
 
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MtnDwellar said:
The rosary is not an act of worship? I beg to differ.
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No. we don’t worship Mary. That is the Protestant charge.

We honor her, and honor the saints; the terms in Latin are duli, and hyperdulia (for Mary) as we give her the highest honor.

We worshp God, and God alone; the term in Latin is latria.

Christ quoted Deuteronomy: “You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.”. See CCC 2096. From CCC 2135: Adoring God, praying to him, offering him the worship that belongs to him, fulfilling the promises and vows made to him are acts of the virtue of religion which fall under obedience to the first commandment.

From CCC 1070: “From this it follows that every liturgical celebration, because it is an action of Christ the priest and of his Body which is the Church, is a sacred action surpassing all others.
No other action of the Church can equal its efficacy by the same title and to the same degree.”
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As I stated, we can participate in Mass by joining the heavenly hosts in the liturgy. All of the communal prayers and songs are intended to direct us to this union. They are not the end game.
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While i agree with you, I would not say they are the end game - they are the game. Saying the rosary while other parts of the liturgy are occurring is having a private side conversation with Mary and basically ignoring Christ. Sorry, I am not going to back off - the rosary has no business during the Mass. We have 168 hours allotted to us each week; it is it so hard to devote one hour of that a week to paying attention to Christ - and taking whatever else out of the week to speak with Mary?

Understand, I am not angry about this, nor have I been when I have seen someone saying the rosary during Mass. It would be closer to say that I am appalled at the apparent lack of understanding of the Mass, of the part we have in the Mass, of the blessing we have in having the Mass so readily available to us (yes, I am aware of restrictions due to the virus). One of the things that came out of the Synod in Brazil is that there are areas where people do not see a priest for a year or more - and that is standard. There have been decades in some countries where people have risked their life to go to Mass; in some Arabic countries it is illegal to have a Mass open to the public - they are “underground”. There is ample information extolling the Mass and explaining why it is something we participate in. Would that those who question saying the rosary during Mass avail themselves to this treasure of information.
 
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MynameisD said:
Oh no, it isn’t replacing worship at all. I asked that because I saw that it was possible and some Popes said that there was no wrong in doing so. But I don’t know what has really changed postconcilium.
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The reason why the Pope Pius or Leo (I forget which) said it’s good to pray the Rosary during mass is rare today.

He said it because it was a time when fewer Catholics understood the mass in Latin and BEFORE pew missals became common place.

His Holiness wanted people to pray the Rosary instead of daydreaming during Mass. However, I’m sure that if pew missals would have been common then, he would have pushed for people to pray the mass using the Missal (which is what most people at the Latin Mass do today)
 
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Hey I am a convert that goes to latin mass on Sundays and I normally bring my rosary out during communion since I’m still in RCIA and I replace the mysteries with my own personal prayers for wanting to partake of the Eucharist and a want to be baptized and confirmed. Now I do not count this as my daily rosary especially since I don’t usually get through the whole rosary by the time everyone has communed.
 
The only thing I am gong to mention here is that I believe you err in thinking of the Rosary as ‘going to Mary” and the Mass as ‘going to Jesus’ and that in praying the rosary we are somehow ‘offing Jesus’ in favor of Mary.

While the Rosary is a Marian prayer, the end focus of any Marian prayer is always Jesus.

Therefore the rosary is a ‘both-and’, not a “I’m praying to Mary instead of Jesus”.

And Jesus whom we worship in Mass is Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary. She is the gate and He is the Door. In a sense, we always come to Jesus through Mary.

This is not a case of ‘dueling worship acts’.

And again, nobody is forcing anybody to pray the rosary at Mass.

But it is certainly a great error to state that praying the rosary at Mass is objectively disordered because one ‘prays to Mary instead of Jesus’ as that is simply not EVER the case when praying the Rosary.
 
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Hey I am a convert that goes to latin mass on Sundays and I normally bring my rosary out during communion since I’m still in RCIA and I replace the mysteries with my own personal prayers for wanting to partake of the Eucharist and a want to be baptized and confirmed. Now I do not count this as my daily rosary especially since I don’t usually get through the whole rosary by the time everyone has communed.
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During communion is a good time to use the Rosary at Mass
 
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