How do you personally pray the Rosary?

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I’m guessing most of it is the same, for me I once added a Marian prayer, Oh most beautiful flower of Carmel etc. after the Memorare as there was a third bead and it stuck with me ever since, I was taught by someone to pray the St. Michael prayer near the end which I still do but I have known people add many Saint N. pray for us at the end, a mini litany.

Do you have a long list of saints at the end of your Rosary or something else?

Thanks.
 
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I sometimes pray the Litany of Loreto.
When I lead it with my family, I pray for the intentions of the pope and for the president and country. We then have a “mini” litany of saints. We do our patron (name and confirmation) saints and sometimes other ones also.
 
Fatima Prayer and the traditional concluding prayers.
I used to add certain saints, but no longer.
 
I like to say the Magnificat to thank God for being able to pray it.
 
After the Hail Holy Queen and Let Us Pray prayers I say three Hail Mary’s for the Pope and his intentions and I pray one Our Father in honor of each of the five wounds of Jesus.
 
At the end of the first group of 3 and at the end of each decade, I add the Fatima Prayer (“O Jesus, forgive us our sins…”), then say “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you, save souls”, then say the Fatima Angel prayer (“My God, I Believe, I Hope…”), then I either say the 54 day novena prayer “Sweet Mother Mary” or if I’m not doing a 54 day novena I say “Mary help us, help we pray.”

At the end, I say in order, the Hail Holy Queen, the Prayer to St. Michael, the Memorare where I mention my Rosary intentions, the “We Fly to thy Patronage” prayer, and the final “O God whose only begotten Son…” prayer last. If the Rosary is part of the 54-day Novena, I say the special Novena prayers also at beginning and end of rosary.

I also tend to say all Hail Marys with the Flame of Love addition in order to get souls out of Purgatory. However, I do not say the “Come Holy Spirit” Flame of Love Prayer at the end of the decades unless I am praying with a Flame of Love cenacle or group.

After I cross myself at the end, I say “Jesus have mercy on the souls in Purgatory and the souls on earth”, then I ask Mary and Joseph to pray for me, and then I usually ask a few saints or people on the path to sainthood to pray for me. I have a short list of saints I often ask, but it varies a bit as I will often add the saint I’ve picked for that day, the saint whose feast day it is, the saint the church where I’m praying is named after, a saint who just happens to be on my mind, etc.
 
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I sometimes add the Fatima prayer, but not always. I’ve started saying St Bernadette, pray for us, recently because she was my confirmation saint. But other than that, I don’t do a lot more than the normal prayers of the decades and the Hail Holy Queen at the end. I think that is largely because a wise Orthodox Priest once told me I was more likely to stick to a prayer schedule if I kept it simple and didn’t overload myself with things to learn, and also that silence was just important in prayer as talking.
 
Nelka said:
I’m guessing most of it is the same, for me I once added a Marian prayer, Oh most beautiful flower of Carmel etc. after the Memorare as there was a third bead and it stuck with me ever since, I was taught by someone to pray the St. Michael prayer near the end which I still do but I have known people add many Saint N. pray for us at the end, a mini litany.

Do you have a long list of saints at the end of your Rosary or something else?

Thanks.
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The standard Rosary with the Fatima prayers.
 
I also like to follow Saint Louis de Monfort’s shorter prayer method. I want to add the longer revised method, but I keep forgetting.
 
I begin the rosary with Saint Louis de Montfort’s Offering of the Rosary.
For a short period of time, I belonged to a parish that had a chapter of the Marian Movement of Priests. They met on Sundays. From them, I learned to consecrate my family to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the beginning of every rosary, after I say the Saint Louis de Montfort Offering.
After the Fatima Prayer, I say “Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.”
I do follow the recommendation of St. Paul II of reading a scriptural passage at the beginning of every decade.
I end the rosary with the Hail Holy Queen, Prayer to Saint Michael, Daily Consecration, and Prayer for the Faithful Departed.

Saturdays are set apart by the Church for Mary. It is the day when I am most likely to pray a full scriptural rosary which I will end with the Litany of Loretto.
 
Wow, for a newbie Catholic this info is overwhelming. Whew, I usually do my Rosary just regular as printed in flyers, then after, I might add prayers from m my heart, or for the days activities, etc. I sometimes flip thru my prayer cards and say a few while spending time talking to Jesus. I don’t have a “set” routine, I just adjust it to the needs of my prayers or intentions.
 
It’s perfectly fine to “do the Rosary just regular”. I learned how to say the Rosary by the time I was about 7, and I did them “just regular” for literally decades of my life before I started adding stuff to it, so if you are new to it, I’d suggest keeping it simple.
 
I learned to say the standard Dominican rosary in elementary school, and even though I wasn’t Catholic I said a rosary off and on and always as I was taught.
 
The rosary in my opinion has been one of the most wonderful works God has left to the Church. The rosary can be used just as a support for a recited prayer, but in my opinion that is not its true wealth, that is not its excellence.
His excellence is that he can be used as an aid to meditation! the rosary allows us to meditate on the essentials of the Gospels, with no need to read the Bible, so even illiterates can reach a very high degree of knowledge and love of God by meditating the great mysteries of our salvation through rosary
 
Nothing much. I add the Fatima prayer at the end of each decade, and I say the Marian antiphon at the end respective to the liturgical season. For instance, during Lent I say the Ave Regina Cælorum, right now during Eastertide I pray the Regina Cœli, every other time of year I pray the Salve Regina.
 
I offer the first Our Father (the one right after the Apostle’s Creed) for my priest, my husband, the President, and all people in authority over me.

Fatima prayer at the end of each decade

After the Hail Holy Queen and the Let us Pray I pray “May the Divine assistance remain always with us, and may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace, especially _______________ (names of relatives). Amen

Then an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the pope and his holy intentions

Then I finish with “May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.” Amen
 
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As Tis Bearself stated, don’t let information on this thread overwhelm you if you are new to the Faith. Some of us have been praying the rosary since childhood. It was part of my family’s daily routine for as long as I can remember, the only time we were allowed in my parents’ bedroom. We would all kneel around their bed as we prayed the rosary, until the youngest of us reached at least elementary school age. Then we prayed in the living room with my father leading, if he was home.
I still use the aids for the scriptural passages at the beginning of each decade, and for prayers other than those memorized in childhood.
Nothing says that a person can’t follow the rosary with other personal prayers, such as scriptural reading, or writing in a journal.
 
Lucky you, you picked a good one for Confirmation! Bernadette’s day tomorrow.
 
I love saying the Fatima prayer because it reminds me that I’m a sinner too and I need to be saved from the fires of Hell.

For me I’ll try and offer a decade each for someone or something.
 
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