How long to pray a Rosary?

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Hi I was wondering about how long it should take to pray the rosary?
I have heard that it takes 15 minutes, but for me it takes 45 minutes.
Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
 
How many decades are we talking? The standard 5 decade rosary takes me between 15-20 minutes depending on how fast I speak and how distracted I am (sometimes I repeat a prayer or two if my mind wandered away from my meditation). The only time it takes me 45 minutes to an hour is if I pray all three sets of the traditional mysteries (i.e. 15 decade rosary).
 
It takes me about an hour. Everyone’s different. There’s nothing wrong with taking longer.
 
15 minutes would be the super basic rosary with nothing but Our Father, Hail Marys and Glory Be, and praying quite fast. Most people would find that pace too fast. Also, if you add things like the Fatima Prayer, the Hail Holy Queen, and the closing prayer on the crucifix, it makes it even harder to finish in 15 minutes.

A more realistic time for a basic rosary, prayed fast, is a little over 20 minutes.
If you are praying more slowly (like Mother Angelica speed) and adding some beginning / end prayers, or prayers / scripture between decades, it could take you 30-40 minutes easily.
 
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15 minutes would be the super basic rosary with nothing but Our Father, Hail Marys and Glory Be, and praying quite fast. Most people would find that pace too fast. Also, if you add things like the Fatima Prayer, the Hail Holy Queen, and the closing prayer on the crucifix, it makes it even harder to finish in 15 minutes.
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Man, I must be a speed racer then. I pray the Fatima prayer after each decade and finish with the Salve Regina and closing prayer, and still manage to finish usually in about 18 minutes. Even at my parish when we pray communally during a novena or something it only takes us 20 minutes.

I think I’ll be a little more deliberate in my speed as a devotion for Lent, perhaps at least with the Sorrowful Mysteries. 🙂
 
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I have to speed her up by 25 percent. I’m Irish and there are many jokes about Irish women rushing through their daily Rosary. Father Peyton’s rosaries on Youtube are just about the right pace for me, and he was also Irish.

However, there’s at least one Irish guy who posts Catholic prayer YouTubes who goes so fast that I literally cannot keep up with the prayers.
 
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15 minutes would be the super basic rosary with nothing but Our Father, Hail Marys and Glory Be, and praying quite fast. Most people would find that pace too fast. Also, if you add things like the Fatima Prayer, the Hail Holy Queen, and the closing prayer on the crucifix, it makes it even harder to finish in 15 minutes.
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Man, I must be a speed racer then. I pray the Fatima prayer after each decade and finish with the Salve Regina and closing prayer, and still manage to finish usually in about 18 minutes. Even at my parish when we pray communally during a novena or something it only takes us 20 minutes.

I think I’ll be a little more deliberate in my speed as a devotion for Lent, perhaps at least with the Sorrowful Mysteries. 🙂
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The Parish rosary pace usually depends on who leads the rosary. I’ve been at many parishes where the person leading whips through it in 20 minutes. My two most recent parishes have people leading who tend to be slow or very slow or in some cases are praying in English as a second language. It takes 40 minutes to finish.
 
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Are you praying all three Mysteries including luminous? Each mystery takes about 15 minutes.
 
I pray one Mystery every decade (I’ll do the Lumnous one day, Sorrowful the next, etc)
 
It takes me about 20 - 25 minutes. It’s like three minutes to do a decade of Hail Marys, plus the time it takes to do the collateral prayers. I have three different versions of scriptural based mysteries to keep me on track. If my poor mind tries to meditate on the mysteries without cues, it wanders all over the place, and takes me a lot longer. Maybe 35 minutes.
 
I generally take about a half hour.

My former pastor prays the Rosary so fast that if I’m within six feet of him while he’s praying, my hair gets messed up.
 
Makes me wonder what my parish does wrong.
Every Saturday we do the pro life rosary in 20 minutes.
 
When I was a kid, we went to the funeral parlor when a relative died. Whoever was leading the rosary, was going so fast, my sister and I thought it was pretty funny as we never heard it like that before. We had just gotten “used to” it when the next person started leading the group in Italian! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: But just as fast! We could barely keep it together.
 
About 20’ . That is how I calculated also the time I spent in the tomograph. By rosaries prayed
Now if prayed in bed before going to sleep,in 10’ I don t think I have moved pass the third decade without getting lost and starting the decade over or falling asleep . Usually.
 
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Maybe if I could get you to pray for me this morning. I have catechism class. Or better yet pray for my students.
 
FCS said:
Hi I was wondering about how long it should take to pray the rosary?
I have heard that it takes 15 minutes, but for me it takes 45 minutes.
Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
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It would take 30 minutes to complete the whole Rosary with the litany and all or even 20 minutes if you say it in moderate speed ,super fast will take 15 minutes with out the litany .

When we pray the Rosary we are joining and taking to Mary in praising and thanking God for all the blessings we have received ,the intentions the conversions and healing take place place each day, we are not aware of .
 
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