Has a daily rosary changed you as a person for the better?

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I’ve been praying the rosary daily for ten months partly in hopes that I’d become kinder, less angry, and just a better person. I may not be the best judge of this, but I don’t think it’s happened. Has it changed you?

Maybe ten months isn’t long enough for serious change.
 
I don’t do a daily Rosary but when I do, I definitely feel better. Similar feeling as Adoration. Need to do both more!
 
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I’ve been praying the rosary daily for ten months partly in hopes that I’d become kinder, less angry, and just a better person. I may not be the best judge of this, but I don’t think it’s happened. Has it changed you?

Maybe ten months isn’t long enough for serious change.
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What else do you do each day? I pray a daily rosary and it has helped me a lot. However it’s not enough, at least for me. I need to read daily, either scripture or a Catholic book, occasionally journal, and listen to sacred music.

Ten months is long enough for serious change. But the quality of that time is more important than the quantity. I don’t say this as judgment, just something to hopefully spur you on to introspection as to what else you can do daily that might increase your devotional life.
 
I pray the Rosary every day as part of a novena to Our Lady, Untier of Knots. I pray for an intention for nine days, and at the end of each novena I pick a new intention and start over. I’ve been praying the Rosary at least one time every day for the last few years. I have only missed it for a couple of days this year because I was really sick.
I used to hate the Rosary. Thought it was a really stupid prayer. So I asked God to make it my favorite prayer. Now praying the Rosary is one of my favorite things to do. It helps me in a lot of ways.
 
For most of the ten months it was my entire prayer life, aside from occasional Adoration… I only just started daily Scripture reading. Thank you for your (name removed by moderator)ut.
 
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For most of the ten months it was my entire prayer life, aside from occasional Adoration… I only just started daily Scripture reading. Thank you for your (name removed by moderator)ut.
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Yeah, I would propose it’s probably not enough for you. I’m like that, at least. If I only do that, it’s easy to kind of forget about devotion to God and fall back into old habits. Scripture encourages us to pray without ceasing. From a certain point of view, any devotional act is a form of prayer.

Also consider the timing of your devotions. Maybe doing something first thing in the morning, like the rosary or the morning office, then in the afternoon do your reading, in the evening do the rosary (if you didn’t in the morning) or Evening prayer. This can help keep your eyes fixed on Jesus throughout the day.
 
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Have you tried praying the Rosary at an Adoration Chapel or before a Tabernacle ?
 
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It has helped me become much closer to Our Lady. I also credit the practice of First Fridays and First Saturdays as leading me closer to Jesus and Mary.
 
It sure has helped me. Remember to ask for the specific graces you are looking for, and remember that you’re growing closer to Our Lady of the Rosary and that you can ask for her intercession as well.
If you’re in doubt what to ask for, the each decade of the rosary is traditionally linked to a certain grace or “fruit”.
 
It isn’t long enough.

I’ve been praying the daily rosary since 2010 and I still struggle with sin.

What the rosary does is to give context to your struggle and strengthens your will to practice the virtues. I can say this for sure.

I think the struggle will be lifelong.
 
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