Does a rosary really need to be blessed?

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Hello everyone. I recently received a new rosary from some friends at church, and one of them said that that he did not know whether it had been blessed or not. So, he told that I should have it blessed. Given that I am still a new Catholic, I never heard before that rosaries need to blessed. Is this true? If so, does every new rosary need a blessing, or is it like a scapular in that the initial one needs to be blessed but not any after it? Is blessing a rosary just a common custom rather than necessity (like I have heard about blessing a Miraculous or saint’s medal)? I would appreciate any information about this.
 
Young_Thinker said:
Hello everyone. I recently received a new rosary from some friends at church, and one of them said that that he did not know whether it had been blessed or not. So, he told that I should have it blessed. Given that I am still a new Catholic, I never heard before that rosaries need to blessed. Is this true? If so, does every new rosary need a blessing, or is it like a scapular in that the initial one needs to be blessed but not any after it? Is blessing a rosary just a common custom rather than necessity (like I have heard about blessing a Miraculous or saint’s medal)? I would appreciate any information about this.
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You can still say the rosary with unblessed beads and Mary hears this however a blessed rosary is like having Jesus’s(God)holiness touch the beads.I don’t think we can really no the value of a blessing but we do know that its better than no blessing at all.We do know that saints have said a blessing over sick people and they haave been cured.So we know there is power in them.And Jesus always blessed his food before eating.
 
Not that I’ve ever heard of. You can, if you like, have them blessed, but you don’t have to. It may help.

P.S. Bless you!
 
Young_Thinker said:
Hello everyone. I recently received a new rosary from some friends at church, and one of them said that that he did not know whether it had been blessed or not. So, he told that I should have it blessed. Given that I am still a new Catholic, I never heard before that rosaries need to blessed. Is this true? If so, does every new rosary need a blessing, or is it like a scapular in that the initial one needs to be blessed but not any after it? Is blessing a rosary just a common custom rather than necessity (like I have heard about blessing a Miraculous or saint’s medal)? I would appreciate any information about this.
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Blessings are more than customs. Blessed objects are dedicated to use that is associated with God and offer graces to us and spiritual assists. Someone neglected your formation a bit. It is true that you can carry on a rich prayer life without a single blessed object in it . However, having blessed objects or more correctly , sacramentals ,
enrich you faith life and aids it. Catholicism is a culture as well as a faith. We have a whole book devoted to “blessings”.

aboutcatholics.com/worship/sacramentals/

ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/WHATARE.HTM

fisheaters.com/sacramentalsintro.html

Hope that helps.
 
The custome of blessing objects makes what we call “Sacramentals” as tools to focus more intimately on our relationship with God. Sure, a rosary is a tool to help us count the decades while considering the significants of each mystery of our Catholic Faith. The blessed Sacramental helps us to be more intimate with God during our prayers.
 
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Yes, a rosary (or a Bible, crucifix, etc.) needs to be blessed in order to be a sacramental. You can pray without these things being blessed, but I would say why not go ahead and do it. I have even had a couple of times when I went to have an item blessed, the priest had a couple of minutes free so he blessed the item right then. Other times I had to pick it up a couple of days later. That all depends on the priest’s schedule.

As to the benefits of having an item blessed, ordinarily sacramentals are not channels of graces like Communion or Confession are. However, regular use a sacramentals do make it easier for us to receive the graces when they come along. They help us be more receptive to our Lord.
 
Seatuck said:
Blessings are more than customs. Blessed objects are dedicated to use that is associated with God and offer graces to us and spiritual assists. Someone neglected your formation a bit. It is true that you can carry on a rich prayer life without a single blessed object in it . However, having blessed objects or more correctly , sacramentals ,
enrich you faith life and aids it. Catholicism is a culture as well as a faith. We have a whole book devoted to “blessings”.

aboutcatholics.com/worship/sacramentals/

ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/WHATARE.HTM

fisheaters.com/sacramentalsintro.html

Hope that helps.
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Yes. Thanks for the help.
 
sulkow82 said:
Hello,
Yes, a rosary (or a Bible, crucifix, etc.) needs to be blessed in order to be a sacramental. You can pray without these things being blessed, but I would say why not go ahead and do it. I have even had a couple of times when I went to have an item blessed, the priest had a couple of minutes free so he blessed the item right then. Other times I had to pick it up a couple of days later. That all depends on the priest’s schedule.

As to the benefits of having an item blessed, ordinarily sacramentals are not channels of graces like Communion or Confession are. However, regular use a sacramentals do make it easier for us to receive the graces when they come along. They help us be more receptive to our Lord.
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Hello. I see; thank you for explaining this. I’ll try to get Father to bless this rosary. However, do all of my rosaries need to be blessed (currently, I have three of them)?
 
boncrayon said:
The custome of blessing objects makes what we call “Sacramentals” as tools to focus more intimately on our relationship with God. Sure, a rosary is a tool to help us count the decades while considering the significants of each mystery of our Catholic Faith. The blessed Sacramental helps us to be more intimate with God during our prayers.
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Okay.
 
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