Do you pray the Rosary while driving?

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If you can talk while you drive, then you can pray the Rosary too!
I use a ring that is a Rosary, (it never falls when I turn the wheel). All I have to do is turn it with my thumb and feel the marks with my nail.
I like to relate each Mystery to what I am living at the moment and dialogue with Mary about it. For instance: if I am praying the second joyful Mystery, and I am going somewhere to meet someone (that’s why I am driving, right?) I may tell her: ‘Mother Mary, please help me do as you did and help me go meet this person caryying Jesus within me, that I may be full of love and that I am able to communicate the joy of the Lord to others as you did with Isabel.’ Then I just start praying the Our Father and 10 Hail Mary thinking about what I just asked Mary.
I assure you it is a joy to pray the Rosary while driving. You do not get impatient or angry in heavy traffic; you may even pray for that unkind or slow driver in front of you!
I strongly recommend it! 👍

Alma
 
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Alma:
If you can talk while you drive, then you can pray the Rosary too!
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How do you figure? Talking doesn’t require much mental attention. The Rosary is a mediative prayer, not a vocal one. Meditation requires so much mental concentration that the Church teaches that “the required attentiveness is difficult to sustain.”

If that level of attentiveness is so difficult to sustain when doing nothing else, it seems to me to be absolutely impossible to do while safely driving.

Note: I apologize if my tone sounds like I’m taking the offensive; it’s not directed at you. I am challenging the “it is possible to meditate and drive” idea in an attempt to understand it.
 
When I lived in Philadelphia, I usually got off work around 4:30. I usually got to my car in time for the Catholic Radio Station broadcast of the Rosary. I would follow along with the rosary.

One day I was saying it and there was a very agitated driver in front of me. I thin she though I was cussing her out or something. She was going completely postal.

PF
 
Yes, I do pray the rosary en route to work.

My drive is almost entirely interstate.

I never used to do this, but have recently been called to do so…and now that I hate my job so much, it’s very easy to meditate on the sorrowful mysteries as I offer up my suffering as I pray. Suddenly I have begun to really understand some of the mysteries.

I have difficulty really meditating otherwise.

I also held and prayed the rosary last winter during a storm and a very hairy drive home. The prayers kept me not only attentive, but calm in spite of some of the very bad drivers around me. (you would be amazed at what people think they can do on ice and deep snow).

Recently I was prompted VERY STRONGLY to pray the rosary en route to work, and at the time this was not a habit of mine. Anyway, as I sat at a red light, counting beads and praying, I was rear ended.

I have to question what might have happened had I not followed that strong suggestion? In fact, I was actually very strongly prompted to go to mass that morning but didn’t do so. I ended up, as a result of the accident arriving to work at about the same time as I would have had I just followed God’s first instruction to me to attend Mass.

I won’t use the beads if I"m in an unfamiliar area, but I will pray the rosary. Maybe the meditation is imperfect, but God can still hear us and recognize our intent and need to pray.

As far as the shopping list of things you’re paying attention to in the vehicle: for many people that is second nature. If a red light pops up on your gauge, you’d better be able to see it; if you can’t you shouldn’t be driving anyway. Praying does not prevent you from seeing what is around you, and if something alerts you, our Lord will not be offended if you stop mid-prayer to avoid crashing into Mr. Buckley while he stops in the center of the lane and cranes his neck to see if he passed his exit or should maybe take a hard left across the median.

The rosary while driving can actually prevent accidents…although I don’t think this practice is for everyone.

But I insist that if GOD tells you to pray all of a sudden…then DO IT!.
 
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JCPhoenix:
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I’m a firm believer in “Do ANYTHING God tells you to…”
 
Yes, I say the rosary while I’m driving. Most of my driving time is spent on the highway. If I can drive while listening to the radio, I can drive while saying the rosary. And the time is better spent praying the rosary.

Because I still have all ten of my fingers, I don’t need to use a rosary while I pray the rosary. To count, I just press down a little on the appropriate finger.
 
Talking doesn’t require much mental attention. The Rosary is a mediative prayer, not a vocal one.
One can of course pray the Rosary by approaching it from different perspectives, anywhere between purely a vocal prayer and a contemplative prayer.
If that level of attentiveness is so difficult to sustain when doing nothing else, it seems to me to be absolutely impossible to do while safely driving.
Driving is like walking to some, so if one can walk while praying the Rosary, one can drive while praying it. And a Rosary prayed is better than no Rosary praied. 😉

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Yes I pray the rosary while driving my motorcycle, talking on my cell phone and using a calculator all at the same time.

Its up to those other drivers and pedestrians to get out of my way.

(Actually, I can’t even pray the Rosary while walking without bumping into something).
 
I have always prayed the rosary while driving and you can meditate properly when you have a good cd or tape to pray with.

I get more rosaries said in the car then any where else unless I am home all day and watching Mother Angelica.

Actually my patience and tolerance in driving in traffic is far better when I am praying.

I bet we would see less roadrage if everyone were to put in a great cd of the rosary instead of loud music that is not good for tolerance.
 
I pray the rosary every day on the way to work. I have a CD, by Danielle Rose and it includes a beautiful song for each Mystery. I use my fingers because I don’t want to get distracted with the beads while driving. I find it more peaceful than talking or listening to the radio. I don’t close my eyes (obviously) while thinking about the mysteries but I do think about them. Sometimes I have to stop the CD and catch up with my Hail Mary’s because I start drifting off as I listen to the CD. It makes my day to start this way. If I thought it was dangerous I wouldn’t do it. It beats worrying about things!

On the days I don’t work, I do say the Rosary with my Rosary Beads, and in a more quiet place. Then I don’t listen to the CD, but read the scriptual references for the Mysteries.
 
Are you kidding me? Remind me not to go anywhere those zealots are driving…

I have a commitment to praying the rosary, but I think driving requires your full attention. I think God would prefer people to have some common sense too. Pray your rosary before you start down the road.
 
Thanks for the insult, “Seeks God!” I don’t suppose you’ve ever been deep in thought about some daily matter while driving?
 
Seeks God:
Are you kidding me? Remind me not to go anywhere those zealots are driving…

I have a commitment to praying the rosary, but I think driving requires your full attention. I think God would prefer people to have some common sense too. Pray your rosary before you start down the road.
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You’re too funny! I keep my eyes open and I listen to a Rosary CD called Mysteries by Danielle Rose. For your information- I have a perfect record- no accidents ever and no speeding tickets for about 25 years. I guess you are picturing something that it is not. I don’t use the beads for I fear they would cause me to have trouble.

I don’t mind being called a zealot anymore. I have gotten used to it lately. It means I believe in God- at least the left in this country thinks that is what it means. I am a proud zealot!

Some have time and interest to talk on the cell phone, some have time and interest to argue with other drivers when they get mad. All I do is pray, and that worries you?
 
Seeks God:
Are you kidding me? Remind me not to go anywhere those zealots are driving…

I have a commitment to praying the rosary, but I think driving requires your full attention. I think God would prefer people to have some common sense too. Pray your rosary before you start down the road.
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For me, it was a family tradition, especially on long trips. With 10 kids plus 2 adults packed in a wagon on a 500 mile trip, being distracted by counting the beads was the least of my Dad’s problems. 😛 It helped calm things down.
I still do it to this day, but yea, more for the open road than the congested stuf.
 
I voted “no”. I live in Prince William County (in Virginia). Compared to all other counties in the United States, we have the seventh longest commute. That’s right, 7th place in average commute to work.

I got a new job just a few months ago. And I only drive to the bus stop.

I take the bus (public transportation) instead of driving all the way to work. On the first (and longer) bus ride, I read. Currently, I am reading a devotional “Mary Day by Day” and Fulton Sheen’s “Life of Christ”. After I get off the first bus, I take another bus. And on that bus, I pray the Rosary (either 5 or 10 decades depending on circumstances) . Coming home, I pray the Rosary on the shorter bus ride (5 or sometimes 10 decades). Then on the longer bus ride back home the quality of my reading is not as good as in the morning (I am somewhat worn out by then).

If I drove, the commute might be shorter. But it would also be more expensive (gas and wear and tear on my vehicle).

If you haven’t tried it, consider taking public transportation. Then you can more wisely use your time. And if we all took public transportation more, the traffic problems would decrease and our consumption of gas may also decrease.

However, public transportation isn’t for everybody – especially if you have a very short commute and no bus can get you there.

jmm08
 
I didn’t vote, but I will as soon as I get my new rosary CD from Amazon.

I don’t foresee a problem with praying the rosary in the car, especially once I get used to it. It seems like a great way to start the morning before I get to work, especially since I have to be at work a half-hour before the radio broadcast of daily Mass (which used to be my favorite before I switched jobs). I’ve been working within the same square mile for the past 3.5 years now, so the drive is already autopilot. Might as well do something more worthwhile than sing along with the radio. I probably won’t use beads, though. That would definitely be a distraction.
 
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Thanks for the insult, “Seeks God!” I don’t suppose you’ve ever been deep in thought about some daily matter while driving?
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It didn’t mean to be insulting. But as an ex-cop, I got to tell ya that “Your Honor, I wouldn’t have hit that 8 year old if I wasn’t meditating on the Rosary” will not keep you out of jail if you kill somone in this manner…

I also think that this type of activity gives protestants fuel for their fire when they make the claim that we pray “repetitive prayer” as heathens. As Catholics, we are supposed to put our full heart, mind, soul into our prayers. I just have a hard time seeing how a person can do that when they also have to put their full attention on driving…

SG
 
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