For those that say the rosary everyday

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About 30 minutes. I pray it in the morning with my other morning prayers. Often I’ll pray 3 decades in the morning and then finish them before noon Mass. Of course my attention wanders some days. I just call it back and keep going. Otherwise, I do have many days when I can meditate on the mysteries quite well. Meditation is a bit of a skill that gets better with practice. Ask Our Lady to help.
 
Praise God for this thread!

It has reminded me of when I used to pray a Rosary daily five years ago. It was so great to be in tune with God.

It’s not easy living with mental illness, but I won’t use that as an excuse not to pray the Rosary.
 
Approximately 25 minutes or so. I feel that I receive so many graces from the Holy Rosary- so I like to pray it often.
 
I aim to pray the rosary each day (at least Joyous,Sorrowful, & Glorious once a week). Some days I sense myself rattling it off and it takes about 15 minutes, other days about 25 minutes.
Don’t worry about distractions, bring them to God and Our Lady then bring yourself back.
Find a way to pray that works for you. Some like to use a phrase inserted into the Hail Mary (e.g. ‘…Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, who was whipped at the pillar,…), some use images, some use meditations, Scripture, Cathechism etc.
There are days when I’m so anxious I don’t even really think of the mystery and just pray the set prayers. I prefer to say the rosary in one go but it can be broken up into decades throughout the day. Walk to bus stop one decade, lunch break another decade, taking the dog out another decade and so on.
 
I try to split it during the day, I usually pray a decade at the time when I have a quiet moment or when I need to pray to keep going (like when I need to do some housework that I really dislike).
 
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Do you have trouble trouble concentrating on the mysteries?
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Yeah, this is a learned art form. Often my thoughts will wander if I’m not using a visual aid or concentrating very hard. I try to bring my thoughts back where they should be. I also sometimes will just try to think about the mystery for a minute at the beginning and at the end of the decade to make sure I did some meditation in case my mind wandered in the middle.

I tend to think it’s more important to say a Rosary regularly than just wait for those rare times when I have zero distraction and can sit and concentrate on it like I’m a nun and my job for the day is to pray. If i waited for those “special” times I would end up saying very few Rosaries. As a member of the Brown Scapular, Rosary Confraternity, and World Apostalate of Fatima (aka Blue Army), I’m supposed to be praying the Rosary every day so I can’t really wait around for special times to say it.
 
You should discuss this with your priest, as repeating the prayer when you “don’t get it right” can cause problems, especially if the reason you don’t is that you are learning. A good priest will be able to help you out 🙂
 
This is a huge problem for me, and a timely reminder!

May I ask, can you pray one set of five decades for all the three groups, or do you pray one set for each group? I have often wondered about that.
 
Five decades is supposed to be one group of mysteries, normally. So I pick one set of mysteries and crank through them on five decades, then move to the next set. Often I will pick the set of mysteries traditionally assigned for the day of the week.
 
I pray in the car.
Or when I wake up at 3am with anxiety.
 
Normally I end up dividing it into 5 segments throughout the day, and somehow I just remember what the last decade was that I prayed. The only time I can normally pray a complete Rosary is if I wake up in the middle of the night or when I’m hiking or hunting.
 
For me it’s the most important liturgy of my day apart from mass. Usually I spend around thirty five minutes, all five decades and of course visualising the mysteries as I go, which is why I do this at home and not whilst doing anything else. If I was driving I’d crash!
 
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I am a meditation sort of rosary sayer, so it takes me an hour or so to say the rosary…depending on where God takes me whilst I meditate. Some days it is shorter and some days longer, once a week I say it in a church group so then it is only 20mins. As to how I manage it, well it is habit now. But the practicalities, well it can be divided up if one wishes into decades and it can be said whilst doing other things, for instance whilst walking somewhere. With quite a lot of practice it can even be said in public like while travelling on buses or trains etc. The reason I say this takes practice is that you do need to be able to go into that quiet place inside and keep away from distractions yet seamlessly pop out if required ie ticket inspector and not lose your cool with others or your place while praying and you need to be able to pray in your head. I know some people who can only do it out loud which would probably be annoying for other commuters. If you aren’t meditating which needs a lot more ‘headspace’ then you can probably do household chores of a basic nature at the same time. I would suggest giving it a go and see what works. Another thing that may help if you are just starting out is to start with one decade for a week or two and then work up to 2, then 3 then 4 etc. over a period of weeks or months so you gradually get used to it. I did it that way so that by the time I was doing all 5 daily it was less of a shock to the system than nothing one day, then 5 decades the next. God bless you, its a great devotion and massively rewarding. I can’t even count the ways it has advanced me in devotion and prayer.
 
Those FSSP priests don’t mess around! It’s the biggest penance I’ve ever been assigned.
 
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My wife and I do it the first thing in the morning over coffee. We do a devotion to the souls in purgatory, the Office of Readings and then a rosary. The whole thing takes about and hour. The rosary about 20 minutes.

Patrick
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