Daily prayers read off paper, or one rosary for all of them? Poll

[DrawNearToGod]

I have a printout Of daily prayers. For myself, my family, the country, the Church, the world, those in need, etc etc.

They include many saint intercession requests. For large “causes” I say 6 main prayers- the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, St M Prayer, G angel prayer, Jesus prayer.

If I read off all of these intentions but formed them into a paragraph I prayed to Jesus and Mary at the beginning of a rosary, would it be less effective than going through all the prayers.

I ask this because I usually pray the rosary for one intention, but with 25 or so intentions I don’t know if it’s enough.

What would you do?

• Read them off without rosary
• tell Jesus and Mary intentions and pray a rosary for them

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[Cor_ad_Cor]

Do what you feel…the prayer is no more or less in either arrangement.

I have a handful of prayers, including my list of intentions and intercession requests (similar to what you describe) that I pray almost every morning before going into the LOTH.

 

[Bill6]

Greetings in Christ,
I mainly pray for most of my intentions with the Rosary, and spend some time praying to God directly for my intentions or saying The Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory be for them.
God love you and Mary keep you.

 

[CRV]

Doing either one is fine. Myself, I do say individual prayers for various intentions/groups and the Rosary 99% is for my lapsed family members to return and for the non-Catholic members to enter the Catholic Church.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

It’s about the sincerity of the prayer, not whether you say individual prayers for every intention. It’s perfectly fine to say one Rosary for a whole group of intentions, and as a practical matter most of us have limited prayer time and cannot say 10 prayers for 10 different intentions.

The Rosary can cover hundreds of intentions. It doesnt somehow get more “diluted” if we pray for 25 intentions at a time rather than 1.

 

[BigRon]

The Rosary can cover hundreds of intentions. It doesnt somehow get more “diluted” if we pray for 25 intentions at a time rather than 1.

I never knew that, I have often wrangled over whether I should be praying for this or that intention.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

People frequently ask how many intentions one Rosary can cover. If you search the forum you’ll see all the past threads.

On the issue of “dilute intentions” generally, I posted about this a while ago and just going to link it here because it contains a Catholic Answers apologist explanation from Steve Ray that is no longer available online except on an anti-Catholic web site that of course I won’t link, so I rewrote Steve’s answer into the post instead.

Do too many Intentions dilute the power of a prayer? Catholic Living

This question actually comes up a lot and the answer is generally “no, the power of your prayer is not diluted”. Steve Ray answered it on a “Catholic Answers Live” show on May 8, 2008. The show is no longer available online, but his answer was preserved (On an anti-Catholic website of all places, whose gunk I have deleted) so I am cutting and pasting it here. His answer is what I would have said too, basically that God’s ways of applying prayer are very efficacious and we don’t fully know how…

 

[TomH1]

I see no reason why you cannot say one Rosary with more than one intention. It is my understanding that a priest can offer Mass and apply its fruits for more than one intention. By that principle I think you would be fine offering a Rosary to Jesus and Mary whilst applying your prayers for different people.

 

[BigRon]

Does that mean that fasting follows the same rules that you can fast for more than one intention without it being diluted?

 

[Dorothy]

I remember a retreat master saying that we don’t have to limit the Lord. Ask for many intentions, and pray sincerely.

 

[Cham65]

God knows our intentions and is always there for us.

The most important thing is to pray without ceasing.