Disappointed by my first group Rosary

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If you find it distracting, then pray in your own. Or pray silently along with someone else.

My Nonna used to lead the rosary with other little old ladies. I used to like watching and listening to them. It was almost song like.
 
That’s an interesting way of putting it. It hadn’t occurred to me that praying extremely fast could in fact be meditative, inducing a kind of trance-like state, but I can see that it could be possible. I suppose if you focus on saying the words as fast as possible you do have to think about each and every word, whereas when you say them slowly you can be thinking about something else simultaneously.

@Cor_ad_Cor is right that it can round a bit like an auction room.

@HeDa No, this was in Oxford, many years ago now.
 
Instead of whining about it, how about taking a leadership role. If you do not like the way others do things, then you do them yourself.
Criticism is easy. Taking a proactive step is hard.
I will pray for you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
 
Well, I try to pray for everyone, even those who are chronic whiners.
Have a terrific day! 🙂
 
So it is okay if you criticize others, but if someone throws some objective criticism towards you, they are bad?
 
No, I said I’d rather be a whiny person than someone who criticizes then offers prayers
 
I’m with you, dbranch. The group rosary in our parish is totally unprayerful for me. For one thing, why do they assume that Our Lady is deaf and has to be shouted at?

And as for a pp suggesting that anyone objecting to the way it’s said should just take on a leadership role and do it better - I can see that going well.
 
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For one thing, why do they assume that Our Lady is deaf and has to be shouted at?
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I would suspect that some of the people praying are the ones who are hard of hearing, and it results in them speaking louder, either because they don’t realize they’re speaking louder or they’ve been asked to pray loudly so everyone can hear.
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And as for a pp suggesting that anyone objecting to the way it’s said should just take on a leadership role and do it better - I can see that going well.
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This is correct when it comes to regular parish prayer groups.
Usually they have some people who have been leading the prayers or praying in the group for some time and they have a certain way they do it and the people there do NOT want to change it.
If a new person joined and prayed in the group for a couple years without making waves, MAYBE then he could propose a change. But even if he took on some “leadership role”, like let’s say the person leading it had to leave town or go in the hospital for a while, it’s likely the people who pray would not want a change to the way they had been doing it for years already.

About the only way you could have “leadership” and do things your way is start your own group, which then becomes an issue of “how many prayer groups does one parish need or can one parish support.”
 
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It’s been said that it is ok to go fast, but my own personal feeling is that unless your schedule is always tight, you should say it at a respectable pace or do it another time.
 
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