Knee walk while praying rosary?

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Anyone else here knee walk while praying the rosary?
I just started to the other 2 days ago.
My mind would wander off as I would pray the rosary so I wanted to do something that would help me focus.

I remember as a child people praying walking on their knees in our church so I thought, I’ll give it a shot.

My mind doesn’t wander off that much anymore. The pain helps me focus on my prayers and the rosary. I knee walk in my house on our hardwood floor. It hurts… wow does it hurt.
I can’t even imagine the people who do this on gravel.
 
Apple_Fan_Boy said:
Anyone else here knee walk while praying the rosary?
I just started to the other 2 days ago.
My mind would wander off as I would pray the rosary so I wanted to do something that would help me focus.

I remember as a child people praying walking on their knees in our church so I thought, I’ll give it a shot.

My mind doesn’t wander off that much anymore. The pain helps me focus on my prayers and the rosary. I knee walk in my house on our hardwood floor. It hurts… wow does it hurt.
I can’t even imagine the people who do this on gravel.
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Interesting. Is this popular?
 
Be careful…you can seriously damage your knees that way…then you won’t have to be praying the rosary to enjoy the pain.

When I need to stay focused, sometimes standing up helps.
 
It is more popular in other countries than here in the US but yes, it is a very big thing.

A quick search found me this article. There are more out there with better information.
 
Apple_Fan_Boy said:
It is more popular in other countries than here in the US but yes, it is a very big thing.

A quick search found me this article. There are more out there with better information.
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Thanks!

I copied this section below:
**We prayed through the pain, and when we returned to our hotel room, our knees were blistered up with hanging skin and open flesh. **We put some bandaids on our knees, but later Javier doctored us up with some ointment and told us to leave the skin open to heal. Kneeling at daily mass was not the most comfortable experience after that, the skin rebroke and rehealed daily. Well, needless to say my prayer was for a healthy pregnancy and baby, and if this pregnancy continues I will be heading back to Fatima to make the knee walk rosary in thanksgiving!
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Uhh…yeah. That’s not for me.
 
Anyone even considering this kind of mortification needs to have a spiritual director who is consulted before major moves like this. It can be spiritually and physically damaging to undertake this without the proper disposition.
 
Indeed, one needs to seek the advice of their spiritual director but also of a doctor. There are stories of saints such as Catherine of Siena being told to tone down extreme mortifications. They were certainly not any the less saintly for obeying their confessors.
 
I might try it, but not to the point of damaging myself. Not into scourging or hurting myself.
 
I remember once, on the news, seeing IMELDA MARCOS, the late Phillippine
First Lady, knee-walking while praying her rosary. Whatever her sins,
Mrs. Marcos respected her rosary devotion. Good for her, on that point.

If I were going to knee walk the rosary, I would put on a pair of knee pads.
I was trained as an actor, and we often had to do scenes involving spendinng time on,
or walking on, our knees. WE WORE KNEE PADS because you can break your knee caps that way. That’s deliberately damaging your body. If you have a job and relatives to feed, it is sinful to injure your body so that you have to miss work due to broken or dislocated kneecaps.

Some of the saints practiced extremely severe mortifications. I admire their love for God and desire to suffer for him,but some of this stuff was, I think, way too much.
Saint Gerard Majella used to have one of his Order’s brothers beat the living hell out of his bare back with a metal chain until the blood poured down his back. I don’t think that that is necessary. Noble, but not necessary, and could have exposed his ripped flesh to dangerous infections.
St. Rose of Lima disfigured her face with harsh chemicals, and then wore a crown of sharp metal “thorns,” with the thorns turned inward, tearing into her forehead and the skin of her head all around. Saint Catherine of Siena, to avoid being forced to marry, reportedly ruined her face with Lye so that she would be ugly.
It’s one thing to graciously accept the painful stigmata, as did St. Padre Pio, for that is God inflicting that as a mysterious grace. I think it’s quite another to think that you have to go around daily beating the living hell out of yourself until you are pouring blood from self-made lacerations to your body. God love those saints, they are far better people than I ever will be, but that’s extreme. When the kids at Fatima wore extremely tight cords around their waists as disciplines for the conversions of sinners, Mary told them to LOOSEN those cords somewhat. That’s good advice, and from the Mother of God herself.
Jaypeeto4
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Shalom

If you feel and think this is the best way to focus and that it helps to really pray with a sincere heart and put you closer to Jesus and Mary, then so be it. Remember me your prayer.

God bless.
 
While I appreciate your sincerity in walking on your knees as an act of further reparation, I wonder what prompts you to do this? Does inflicting pain on yourself help you on a spiritual level? If so, please explain.

God Rocks
 
Wow, thanks for the info.
I thought that Mrs. Marcos had died several years ago.
I hope God grants her grace and final perseverance in the faith.
Seriously, whatever her hubby’s faults,
except for her enormous obsession with collecing exhorbitant amounts
of pairs of new shoes, she wasn’t really a bad person.
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
If knee walking while saying the rosary is used to improve your focus on the prayers - to control - the wandering mind - than you could have several methods for bettering mind control instead of inflicting unwarranted bodily harm which is in fact a sin.you need counselling, mind control exercises -meditation -yoga, focusing, and perhaps meditation.And as a penance I don’t find any priest -your confessor- who would even permit you such an activity that could damage your knees and impair your functioning.If it is a compulsion for you take medical advise.The least is as already suggested -wear appropriate knee-pads
 
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