Do You Say Rosary while driving?

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If you are not satisfied with the quality of your rosary while driving, pray another one when you get home. How does a person spend the day in prayer if they refuse to pray during the day?
 
The answer to how one spends the day in prayer is by dedicating one’s work to God - something we all learend in the 1st grade in 1952.
 
I usually say some rosary while driving.I seem to be on the road a lot and most of it countryside so that to me is safer.I grew up saying the rosary with my parents if we had to travel anywhere…and when I take them to appointments now we pray together (where two or three are gathered in My name…)
 
I think it depends on the person and the driving conditions.
 
Indeed. It’s all a matter of driving skill and preference. I prefer to read the Bible while I drive.
 
Well, my step-dad seemed to be millimeters away from having an accident every time he tried to put on his seat belt while driving. Some people can shave, brush their teeth, and text all at the same time while driving on the Santa Monica Free Way going to work.
 
I suppose I can’t really criticize. Many years ago, I flew a plane while talking on a cell phone.
 
It seems to me that always holding your rosary while driving is not a prudent thing to do. Would you reaction time be the same to deal with an imminent situation compared to when you did not have the rosary in your hand?
 
I have a little set of beads my husband gave me that has just one decade and a ring to go over a thumb.I hardly notice it.
 
I can t pray the rosary and drive at the same time. I tried with CD also,but my mind wonders,and I neither drive nor pray properly.
So I prefer to sing while I drive. Some of the songs of worship mean a lot for me to sing to Jesus.
For the record: when I am alone in the car…no harm done to anyone around.
 
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I have a 20 minute train ride to work. I do often take that moment to say a decade of the Rosary, or the Divine Mercy Chaplet. I have only done it once while driving, that was when it took 1 hour to drive 4km, and I was starting to fume from the frustration of the traffic, and needed to be able to view everyone else on the road as fellow travelers, rather than mere inconveniences in my journey.
 
I pray the Rosary while others are driving.

Fr Mitch Pacwa used to hand the Rosary to Deacon Bill as they were driving from Nashville to Alabama. He didn’t trust Deacon Bill at the wheel.😂
 
I pray the Rosary while driving and conditions permit. I generally don’t try to pray the Rosary in traffic or when I’m on a route that I’m not used to. I agree with the posters who prefer a single decade Rosary, less chance of it getting caught in something in the car.

I also find it easier to concentrate when I’m driving - there are usually fewer distractions when driving down an open highway than in my living room with my family and dogs.
 
Padre Pio was famous for saying more than 30 rosaries during the day. I find it hard to believe that he wasn’t partially deviding his attention during one of them.

While he was a bilocating saint, he was also human.
 
What Padre Pio did is for the most part irrelevant to people who have a job or are going to school… Most people cannot pay attention adequately to two completely different things at the same time. I don’t intend to challenge what he did or didn’t do. If I am doing a task which takes minimal attention (for example, loading a wash machine, vacuuming, or doing the dishes), I can say a rosary while doing so. Likewise, while driving up a freeway where traffic is moving relatively equally. as others have noted, driving in a city is a bit different and requires a greater deal of attention. So also, attending a class, reading a text book, or doing calculations for a reserve study all require a greater degree of attention. Trying to say a rosary at the same time reduces the rosary to a mechanical bead pushing. We need to engage the rosary as a conscious prayer, not something we rattle off as if that was adequate.

The comment I made about school: we would put JMJ at the top of the page we were working on, and say a short prayer offering the work we were about to do to Jesus, Mary and Joseph; then we would pay attention to what we were doing. One’s work can be a prayer if we offer it up and intend it to be a prayer. It is not necessary to be saying words all the time.
 
Hello my Catholic brothers and sisters. I pray the full Rosary twice a day to and from work during my 30min commute each way. I have been doing this for over a year now using an app on my phone where a male and a female are praying it with me in group prayer. It has been very rewarding and I know our Holy Mother has blessed me many times over for praying for all the lost souls. Deus Vult.
 
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