Living Rosary

[LPS]

I read this article a while ago and am intrigued.

Have any of you heard of this? Participated in a living rosary? What do you think about it?

I’m considering whether to talk to my priest about starting a living rosary in our parish, and wondering how much time/hands-on management it would require; it doesn’t sound like it would be much at all.

Thoughts?

 

[pianistclare]

Our Catholic school does it with the children often, on large Marian feasts, Very nice.

Each child is one of the prayers. There is an adult leader to announce the mysteries.

We even built a rosary out of stepping stones (they were rose shaped) with a huge Celtic cross.

Do it, it’s lovely when the weather permits. Although we have done it in the gym or cafeteria at times.

In the past for a 911 memorial, we also released animal/livestock friendly balloons at the end, symbolizing prayers to heaven. Little children love that.

 

[psalm90]

I went to one “living Rosary.” I thought it was a farce. Some people insisted on talking throughout the rosary. Some people got stage struck and one guy couldn’t even remember the Lord’s prayer.

Yours may go better than the ONE I went to.

I’m a guy, and there were few guys, so we all got the Our Fathers. If I had been in charge, I would have handed out a script for each person to READ, so as to avoid the stage fright and forgetting what to say.

You have to have enough people for it.

It’s just a gimick to replace saying the rosary as a group.

At that ONE L/R I was at, they passed around a wireless mike so you could hear the person. They were spread all around the church. Before the prayers, a woman had to go around and arrange everybody and assign what prayer they had.

AND, she was talking up front with some other people (in church) which is why these other people were talking, I think. And, everybody has to stand, which is not always convenient for every person who shows up.

I think you could do it if you had some assistants to keep order, but in our city, the parishioners are always gabbing out loud before Mass. I don’t think the novelty of it is worth the trouble.

In short, be prepared for everything going wrong.

 

[pianistclare]

I went to one “living Rosary.” I thought it was a farce. Some people insisted on talking throughout the rosary. Some people got stage struck and one guy couldn’t even remember the Lord’s prayer.

Yours may go better than the ONE I went to.

I’m a guy, and there were few guys, so we all got the Our Fathers. If I had been in charge, I would have handed out a script for each person to READ, so as to avoid the stage fright and forgetting what to say.

You have to have enough people for it.

It’s just a gimick to replace saying the rosary as a group.

At that ONE L/R I was at, they passed around a wireless mike so you could hear the person. They were spread all around the church. Before the prayers, a woman had to go around and arrange everybody and assign what prayer they had.

AND, she was talking up front with some other people (in church) which is why these other people were talking, I think. And, everybody has to stand, which is not always convenient for every person who shows up.

I think you could do it if you had some assistants to keep order, but in our city, the parishioners are always gabbing out loud before Mass. I don’t think the novelty of it is worth the trouble.

In short, be prepared for everything going wrong.

Wow. Pretty negative response.
Plenty of people do it well. Even children.

OP, I wouldn’t let this discourage you. It’s a beautiful thing and a great way to involve many of all ages. .

 

[LPS]

Well, to be honest, this isn’t the type of living rosary described in the article.

The article describes more of an agreement/plan that designates one decade of the rosary to each person, and each person pledges to pray their decade every day for a year (or other specified period of time).

You might be praying the 3rd Sorrowful Mystery, I might be praying the 1st Luminous Mystery, and together all decades of the rosary are covered each day by the group.

I’m still prayerfully considering it!

 

[pianistclare]

Well, to be honest, this isn’t the type of living rosary described in the article.

The article describes more of an agreement/plan that designates one decade of the rosary to each person, and each person pledges to pray their decade every day for a year (or other specified period of time).

You might be praying the 3rd Sorrowful Mystery, I might be praying the 1st Luminous Mystery, and together all decades of the rosary are covered each day by the group.

I’m still prayerfully considering it!

Hmmmmm sounds interesting, but honestly. If one can pray one decade daily, why just pray one decade daily and finish it?

Sounds like the 1000 Hail Mary thing going around FaceBook. 1000 Hail Marys for cancer patients.
I get emails fro it all the time.
God bless!