How to carry a rosary

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vern_humphrey said:
But then it gets all tangled up in my pocket knife, lighter (always carry a source of fire) and other impedementia. And usually I drop a couple of .22 shells when pulling it out.😃
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Perhaps you just need more pockets…
 
Got a nice rosary when I joined the Knights. Was presented with a carrying case (flat, squeeze top type) to carry it. Keeps the crucifix from poking holes in the pants pocket.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
Got a nice rosary when I joined the Knights. Was presented with a carrying case (flat, squeeze top type) to carry it. Keeps the crucifix from poking holes in the pants pocket.

Matthew
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Does it look like the one Vern mentioned in his OP?
 
G_S said:
This is popular among Hispanics but seems to most common among the less Catechized ones and is often confused with Santeria practices which require the wearing of differently colored beads as a spiritual link to one’s Orisha (deity). A better historian than I might find that the early Spanish missionaries probably advocated the wearing of a rosary because the native peoples had neither pockets nor ten-sided change purses. This is extremely anecdotal but I seem to notice more Hispanics from the islands or from Central America wearing rosaries than those from South America itself. Two wild conjectures are that Santeria is more common in the Caribbean and the native peoples would be wearing less clothing than, say, those from the rather cold Andean regions.
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I have yet in all the years I have been alive to hear this as an explanation for why Hispanics wear the Rosary around the neck. I am Puerto Rican (so of the Caribbean) and never heard of anyone wearing it for the reasons you stated. It is not only Hispanics from from the islands or Central America that wear the Rosary around their necks. And the using the no pockets naked explanation is just way out there.

If anything the country with the heaviest influence of African pagan beliefs would be Brazil. If anyone has any doubts just take a look around on the net at all the Afro-Brazilian religious sects (Candomble, Macumba…etc). Second to Brazil would be Cuba. In Central America you could technically call it “Santeria” but its more influenced by the indigenous pagan beliefs and not so much African.

Yeah, you got those who mix pagan beliefs with Catholicism but since when has that only been something that is only a Hispanic thing? Being half Italian I can tell you that the Malocchio (or Evil Eye) in southern Italy and the mixing of Catholic medallions with Southern Italian evil-eye warding off charms is very widespread.

Anyways… not to be all off-topic… I have had my little red leather rosary case for a long time and is very similar to this one:

http://www.discountcatholicproducts.com/pd/50/145/17813.jpg

It was given to me by my mother for my first Holy Communion. I really don’t see what the big deal is about wearing ones rosary around the neck. I wear my rosary almost daily around my neck not because its fashion statement but because I feel called spiritually to do so. And anyone that has a problem with that can take it up with Our Lady who I am sure does not mind at all. 😃

God bless
 
Sir_Knight said:
:confused: .38’s I could understand (they sometimes come undone in the speedloader) but .22’s :eek:

😛 😉 🙂
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They do if you carry them loose in your pocket. But lean over and let me whisper to you:
I bought an extra purse to carry my .22s – it holds 20 rounds, four reloads for my Kimber M82, very nicely. And spring squirrel season just started in Arkansas. Shhhh.😛
 
Being Puerto Rican I have also worn my rosary, always tucked away inside my clothing, until Marine Corps boot camp.
Some Drill Instructor(DI) that came out of nowhere from another platoon noticed the beads showing above my collar and chewed my butt. He told me to take it off and knowing my DI was Catholic asked if Catholics were supposed to wear rosaries, my DI in a reluctant way said no. So after the assaulting DI left my DI told me to just keep it in my pocket.

Well I did for about a day. I put it right back on. My father went through a similar situation in the Army were during a run his rosary popped out of his shirt, an officer saw it and ordered him to take it off, he flat out refused to do so and the officer backed off. I wasn’t going to back down either.

Well after that incident no one told me to take my rosary off until the Combat Conditioning Course towards the end of boot camp. During part of the Combat Conditioning Course I had to crawl in mud under barbed wire while explosions are going off around them.
When I reached the end of the course and came out from under the last section of barbed wire, the DI present there saw my rosary and commenced to chew me out…but this time I got a good reason. It went something like this "HEY RECRUIT! WHAT THE @#$% IS THAT AROUND YOUR NECK!? IT COULD GET CAUGHT ON THE BARB WIRE OR SOMETHING! TAKE IT OFF!
I thought about it and he was right, the reasoning being that getting caught in an obstacle could get me killed, which would back up the progress of everyone behind me getting them killed.

Well I don’t were a rosary around my neck anymore, mainly becuase I got used to not wearing one, but there’s nothing wrong in doing so…even as a Marine in a combat zone, becuase they make break away rosaries…
 
I found out quickly that when you put a ‘normal’ rosary lose in your pocket, it tends to get tangled with everything else and the chain will eventually break. So I tried the leather rosary pouch thing. That was ok, but it takes up space and if you lean against something, or take a rough hit in the mosh pit, the beads can still break.
I have this rosary made in Brazil that I ordered from the monks of Conception Abbey. It has wooden beads and is held together by cord. It can go in my pocket as it is, and I never worry about it. It is the Tonka Truck of all rosaries. And it holds up in a rowdy Flogging Molly mosh pit well, I must say. So look into the wood/cord rosary if you want something sturdy and stout.
 
As an avid crocheter, I crochet rosary pouches. The materials range from velvet cord to ribbon to cotton to nylon. They have a simple drawstring that ties shut. I make them and gift them…
 
May I recommend the knotted all-twine rosary? They are all but indestructible, beautiful, & they need no case of any kind.
The worst damage you will ever be able to do to one is that, if the maker has used a jump-ring rather than a split-ring to attach the crucifix, you may need to re-attach it. (This can happen when, say,😉 the cat suddenly decides that the crucifix needs a:cool: hearty swipe…)
You can wear it, coil it in your pocket, or whatever: These are pretty much forever. You can even, when they need a bit of “freshening”, stick them in the pocket of a pair of slacks which are going into the washer, & they will emerge good as new. (😛 I confess to discovering this by :eek: accident!)

Furthermore, once you have prayed with one, it frequently happens that you find yourself knotting bits of string & twine, until 🙂 you give up, 👍 send off for a batch of rosary twine, &👍 👍 begin making them for others.
 
Aye, and you can make them all cord as well, using a knotted cross instead of a crucifix which gives you an completely non-metallic, silent rosary.
 
My smaller Rosary is usually in my left pocket. And my large Rosary (cuz I have a big fat head 😉 I wear around my neck. But I wear my beads under my shirt. I don’t show it off, though time-to-time I have pulled it out and used it as a talking point. Wearing my Rosary is just efficient. It’s less likely to break, I can feel the beads on my neck and chest, and thus acts as a reminder of my devotions. Geeze-O, I can think of a dozen reason why TO wear a rosary. And can’t think of many not to, other than pandering to vanity.

emp
 
Zooey said:
May I recommend the knotted all-twine rosary? They are all but indestructible, beautiful, & they need no case of any kind.
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Where do you purchase the materials? I’d like to buy some and get my members at Legion of Mary make the rosaries. 🙂

Thanks!
 
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