If my Rosary is missing a bead does it count?

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If one of the beads on my Rosary fell off will my Rosary not count anymore if saying using?
Also will it be a sin to use a broke Rosary?
 
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We don’t have to pray the rosary using beads at all, so a missing bead on your rosary won’t affect the “value” of your prayer. As long as you are praying with sincerity, you’re good. Be at peace.
 
I don’t use a Rosary half of the time when I pray it, do not worry
 
A rosary is a tool for counting your prayers so that you can pay attention to the prayer, rather than trying hard not to get lost in keeping track of what’s been prayed. 🙂
 
My Rosary are the ten fingers on my hands. If I lost a finger would God be displeased with my prayer? I think you know the answer. 🙂
 
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Not a sin at all.

As an aside, I repair rosaries. If you post a picture, I can likely tell you a fast way to repair 🙂
 
I trust not! My rosary has Two missing beads.
Do you really think God cares? As long as you pray. You can use your fingers!
 
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If one of the beads on my Rosary fell off will my Rosary not count anymore if saying using?
Also will it be a sin to use a broke Rosary?
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Yes, it will still count. Just add the prayer that bead was meant for. Remember what’s important is the prayer itself.

You could say the rosary entirely without a set of beads, as long as you keep track of the prayers. So no, it’s no sin to use a broken set of beads.
 
OP. Buy 6 (+a couple of extra if the Rosary breaks again) beads and change the Our Father beads to the new ones and use the old OF beads to replace the lost Hail Mary beads. When I make Rosaries I always use different beads in both size and colour for the Our Father beads. (I pray the Rosary in bed when I am about to go to sleep so I need to feel something different.)

Keep praying!
 
All prayer “counts”
It is never a sin to pray.
Look online - there are Carmelite nuns who offer Rosary repair.
 
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If one of the beads on my Rosary fell off will my Rosary not count anymore if saying using?
Also will it be a sin to use a broke Rosary?
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Yes it counts as long as you aren’t deliberately skipping a prayer.

No, it’s not a sin.

Prayer is a disposition of the heart, not a performance before God that has to be just right or else.

God meets us where we are. When it’s 11 at night, and you’re rocking your baby daughter to sleep while praying the Rosary, and you’re so tired that you can’t remember whether you said 8, 10 or 15 Hail Marys, I can assure you that Mary appreciates the effort and She doesn’t care about the count (and neither does Her Son.)
 
So long as you don’t forget to say the prayer associated with that missing bead, you should be fine. It’s not a sin, and you don’t even have to use rosary beads. I use my fingers. God gave us 10 of them for a reason, after all, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence that the number of Hail Marys per decade matches the number of fingers. And it’s not a sin to use your fingers even if you lose a finger (Okay, that’s dark enough. I think I’ll conclude my reply here. Hopefully that’s not flag-worthy).
God bless you in your prayer life!
 
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So long as you don’t forget to say the prayer associated with that missing bead, you should be fine.
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No ‘should be’ involved. There is no doubt that they will be ‘fine’.

What makes you think there’s a chance they wouldn’t be?
 
Usually when I say “should be” I mean “will be.” I don’t think they wouldn’t be fine. It’s just the way I talk/type 😛
 
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