Lost my favorite Rosary!

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I’m sorry, this is just a rant thread. Everything is so stressful right now and I just discovered that I lost my absolute favorite rosary. It’s not that I don’t have others but I just really loved this one. It was my first real one, the first I got blessed (I remember how nervous I was to ask the priest), and I have been with it through so much. I bought it when I first came to faith and when I just started to become interested in Catholicism. The look of the rosary was very special to me. Nobody who knows me would say that it suited me but it represented a very private and fragile part of me. Since I have gotten it I went through some very dark and unbelievably painful times and this rosary was my constant companion. It has been prayed with so often it has turned completely gold, even though it was silver in the beginning. The beads were starting to lose their coating. All this made me love it even more. When I prayed with it on my walks it just fit perfectly in my palm. All the others I have are more awkward. Why couldn’t I just have broken it? That I would have easily been able to repair.

I know it is just a tool in the end but it’s still heartbreaking, you know? 🤷 I wouldn’t have been much upset if it had been any other.

Do you have lost any special rosaries and have a similar story to tell?
 
I’m very sorry to hear that you lost your special Rosary and it means a lot to you.

*Do you have lost any special rosaries and have a similar story to tell? *

Yes, I had a beautiful marble looking Rosary a really good friend gave to me. I asked a religious Brother who knows how to repair Rosaries to fix it and I asked him to return it back to me but I found out that he gave it away. 🤷 :rolleyes: Oh well.

I admit I was upset with him at first since I specifically ask him to fix my Rosary and return it. However, I recalled the story of St. Jane France de Chantal told her Sisters that everything is meant to be shared, that it’s not our own even Rosaries…

A Prayer to St. Anthony to recover lost things

O blessed St. Anthony,
the grace of God has made you a powerful advocate
in all our needs and the patron
for the restoring of things lost or stolen.
I turn to you today with childlike love and deep confidence.
You have helped countless children of God
to find the things they have lost,
material things, and, more importantly,
the things of the spirit: faith, hope, and love.
I come to you with confidence;
help me in my present need.
I recommend what I have lost to your care,
in the hope that God will restore it to me,
if it is His holy Will. Amen.
 
Well, I agree with the previous poster. St. Anthony is the way to go.

That being said, have you ever considered making your own rosary? I found some websites on how to make a knotted cord rosary. Really not as hard as it sounds. I’ve made a bunch of 'em already. Here’s a couple of website that shows you how. (I usually use the black fishing twine you can pick up at WalMart for about $8 (about 400+ feet!). Or, you can get fancy and order the good stuff. I think you can get it for about $13/roll and pick different colors.

lifeisaprayer.com/articles/religion/how-to-make-knot-rosary

fnt-victory.net/fnt-victory.net/RosaryInstructions.pdf

google.com/search?q=How+to+make+a+knotted+cord+rosary&hl=en&prmd=v&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=2NlZTMCVMM2k4Qat8IyrCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQqwQwAw
 
I have a Rosary that I really like a lot. I actually “assembled” it my self; adding a center medal and a crucifix that I liked more than the ones that were originally on it. I bought it on a memorable vacation. It was the perfect length and weight. I just love everything about it. But I keep losing it. I have lost it at least three times, once for over a year. Once I managed to drop it out of my purse in a parking garage and someone turned it in to a lost and found. It keeps coming back. 🙂 Maybe yours will too. When mine is missing, I like to pray that whoever finds it will need it more than me.
 
I have heard at least two conversion stories that started with someone finding a miraculous medal and becoming curious about it. These medals presumably had anxious owners too who were never re-united with them. So, your rosary might be ‘out on a job’. If not, I hope that you find it.
If Saint Anthony is busy, try the Holy Souls but promise them a Mass and a share in your rosary prayers.
 
By the side door in our church there is a multi-purpose basket for returning borrowed mantillas, donating extra rosaries for the missions, for disposing of other holy objects you get in the constant stream of Catholic junk mail that you don’t want but you just can’t throw away (you know, like pope-bead rosaries, Miraculous Medal keychains, Sacred Heart League visor clips, and so on).

I deliberately donated my favorite rosary because I realized I was getting a little bit attached to it.

I had this in mind, from John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, chapter 3:
Of some imperfections which some of these souls are apt to have, with respect to the second capital sin, which is avarice, in the spiritual sense.
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  1. Many of these beginners have also at times great spiritual avarice. They will be found to be discontented with the spirituality which God gives them; and they are very disconsolate and querulous because they find not in spiritual things the consolation that they would desire. Many can never have enough of listening to counsels and learning spiritual precepts, and of possessing and reading many books which treat of this matter, and they spend their time on all these things rather than on works of mortification and the perfecting of the inward poverty of spirit which should be theirs. Furthermore, they burden themselves with images and rosaries which are very curious; now they put down one, now take up another; now they change about, now change back again; now they want this kind of thing, now that, preferring one kind of cross to another, because it is more curious. And others you will see adorned with agnusdeis and relics and tokens, like children with trinkets. Here I condemn the attachment of the heart, and the affection which they have for the nature, multitude and curiosity of these things, inasmuch as it is quite contrary to poverty of spirit which considers only the substance of devotion, makes use only of what suffices for that end and grows weary of this other kind of multiplicity and curiosity. For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.
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  1. I knew a person who for more than ten years made use of a cross roughly formed from a branch that had been blessed, fastened with a pin twisted round it; he had never ceased using it, and he always carried it about with him until I took it from him; and this was a person of no small sense and understanding. And I saw another who said his prayers using beads that were made of bones from the spine of a fish; his devotion was certainly no less precious on that account in the sight of God, for it is clear that these things carried no devotion in their workmanship or value. Those, then, who start from these beginnings and make good progress attach themselves to no visible instruments, nor do they burden themselves with such, nor desire to know more than is necessary in order that they may act well; for they set their eyes only on being right with God and on pleasing Him, and therein consists their covetousness. And thus with great generosity they give away all that they have, and delight to know that they have it not, for God’s sake and for charity to their neighbor, no matter whether these be spiritual things or temporal. For, as I say, they set their eyes only upon the reality of interior perfection, which is to give pleasure to God and in naught to give pleasure to themselves.
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This happened about 6 or 7 years ago- A really good friend of mine was having a really difficult time at work, home, and personal problems. We were getting ready to leave, she grabbed her gym bag, it wasn’t closed all the way, and what do you know her “lost” Rosary that she received from her First Communion was “found” and she said all the negative feelings had washed away.

Continue Prayers that you will find your Rosary.

A Prayer to St. Anthony to recover lost things

O blessed St. Anthony,
the grace of God has made you a powerful advocate
in all our needs and the patron
for the restoring of things lost or stolen.
I turn to you today with childlike love and deep confidence.
You have helped countless children of God
to find the things they have lost,
material things, and, more importantly,
the things of the spirit: faith, hope, and love.
I come to you with confidence;
help me in my present need.
I recommend what I have lost to your care,
in the hope that God will restore it to me,
if it is His holy Will. Amen.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. - St. Thomas Aquinas
 
Sorry to hear you lost your favorite rosary. But thankfully it doesn’t depend all on that.
But still it’s not fun, I remember losing a rosary I liked very much when I was on a trip out of the country.
What I just hoped back then is that somebody would find it and it would remind him or her about their faith (for example someone who was Catholic but for some reason lost their faith in God).
 
This came to my mind after reading your post.

I know a woman who makes rosaries, the beads are hand made and fired in a kiln, and then assembled with beautiful medals and crucifixes. She first prays the rosary and then sends it off with someone. I say sends it because the receiver also prays it, and then leaves it somewhere in plain sight. It could be left in an airport lounge in another country or hanging on a fence in the local park, in hopes that the person who finds it may feel blessed, or try to learn what it is and how to pray it, or pass it along to someone else. Maybe your rosary is on its own journey. God bless.
 
It would be so great if someone found the rosary and it would lead him or her somehow to God. In my part of the country most people still claim to be atheist. Communist rule has left its imprint on society. I think many people would not even know that it is a rosary. This particular rosary is so full of personal history and I hate the thought of it lying somewhere in the dirt.
 
Xandria said:
I’m sorry, this is just a rant thread. Everything is so stressful right now and I just discovered that I lost my absolute favorite rosary. It’s not that I don’t have others but I just really loved this one. It was my first real one, the first I got blessed (I remember how nervous I was to ask the priest), and I have been with it through so much. I bought it when I first came to faith and when I just started to become interested in Catholicism. The look of the rosary was very special to me. Nobody who knows me would say that it suited me but it represented a very private and fragile part of me. Since I have gotten it I went through some very dark and unbelievably painful times and this rosary was my constant companion. It has been prayed with so often it has turned completely gold, even though it was silver in the beginning. The beads were starting to lose their coating. All this made me love it even more. When I prayed with it on my walks it just fit perfectly in my palm. All the others I have are more awkward. Why couldn’t I just have broken it? That I would have easily been able to repair.

I know it is just a tool in the end but it’s still heartbreaking, you know? 🤷 I wouldn’t have been much upset if it had been any other.

Do you have lost any special rosaries and have a similar story to tell?
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Ask St. Anthony and St. Dominic to help you find it.
 
Think about where you lost it? I lost my favorite rosary in a public place once.

I know that I lost it for a reason, for someone else to find it that needed it more than I did.
 
Thanks everyone. I know of course that it is the prayer that really matters but the loss still saddened me. Maybe someone really finds it and it will do him some good. I do know that I lost in in the streets or maybe in a field. Not in a public place where someone might turn it in. I have now chosen another rosary and am using it with a vengeance. 😉 If I’m praying lots and lots with it, it will soon carry many memories just like the old one. And I can offer lots of prayer to Our Lady, so it’s a win-win situation. 😃
 
I’ll tell a story about my favorite rosary.

I received the black Rosary from a Sister. She gave a rosary to the whole class. That was before pope John Paul II died. Our teacher said it’s the Pope who blessed the rosaries. I was in elementary, and I didn’t know such things.

Then I entered highschool, and at the end of the first year, everything seems to fail. I prayed the Rosary, asking the Lord not to fail me. But I failed. So I threw the rosary in the air and never cared about it. I was 13 then.

So, that’s it, the rosary from Rome, blessed by the Pope, given by a Sister, was lost.

Take note, WAS.

After a year and a half, I started to become interested in our faith. I started reading books, and understood things about our faith. But I totally forgot about the Rosary.

One day I was fixing my book shelf and something fell on my feet. Gosh, it’s my rosary and I remembered what I did. The color has faded by now but I carry it everyday since then.

So that’s the story of my rosary who was lost before it became my favorite.

Don’t give up the chance of finding your favorite rosary. Maybe one day while fixing your bookshelf, it may fall on your feet. 👍
 
My dog ate one once.

I feel asleep praying it, wrapped around my wrist/hand. I woke up and my sweet little puppy had it in his mouth, smiling away at me like nothing was wrong.

He is going to spending alot of time in puppy purgatory for that one!
 
Rascalking- a non-catholic catholic? I don’t get it? :confused:

Continue Prayers that you will find your Rosary.

A Prayer to St. Anthony to recover lost things

O blessed St. Anthony,
the grace of God has made you a powerful advocate
in all our needs and the patron
for the restoring of things lost or stolen.
I turn to you today with childlike love and deep confidence.
You have helped countless children of God
to find the things they have lost,
material things, and, more importantly,
the things of the spirit: faith, hope, and love.
I come to you with confidence;
help me in my present need.
I recommend what I have lost to your care,
in the hope that God will restore it to me,
if it is His holy Will. Amen.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. - St. Thomas Aquinas
 
I can sympathize with you. I had a very special Rosary that belonged to my dad who passed away in 1984. I think he must have gotten it when he was in the army in the late 1940s. It was made of steel with smallish beads and I had a new crucifix put on it because the old one was missing. It had a very special meaning for me because it was my dad’s and he’d always said that the time he spent in the army was a very happy time for him.
I gave it to my husband who kept it for some years and prayed while driving on business trips. One time he got out of his truck at a gas station and forgot the Rosary on his lap. By the time he remembered, it was too late and he was many miles away.
I still think about that Rosary and wonder what happened to it. I pray that someone picked it up and prays with it, but I sure do wish I had it back…
 
I hope St. Anthony brings it back for you. Meantime, you can search through rosaries on ebay. You might find a match, to “remind” you of the old one, even though I know its really not the same.
 
livnlern said:
I can sympathize with you. I had a very special Rosary that belonged to my dad who passed away in 1984. I think he must have gotten it when he was in the army in the late 1940s. It was made of steel with smallish beads and I had a new crucifix put on it because the old one was missing. It had a very special meaning for me because it was my dad’s and he’d always said that the time he spent in the army was a very happy time for him.
I gave it to my husband who kept it for some years and prayed while driving on business trips. One time he got out of his truck at a gas station and forgot the Rosary on his lap. By the time he remembered, it was too late and he was many miles away.
I still think about that Rosary and wonder what happened to it. I pray that someone picked it up and prays with it, but I sure do wish I had it back…
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That sounds like a very special rosary to lose. I’m sorry it happened. I have actually heard of several people who lost their rosary in the exact same way. But to look on the bright side, the prayers said on the lost rosary brought him safely back home! 🙂
 
Eliza10 said:
I hope St. Anthony brings it back for you. Meantime, you can search through rosaries on ebay. You might find a match, to “remind” you of the old one, even though I know its really not the same.
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😃 I have already set my eyes on a similar rosary on ebay. The crucifix and the centerpiece are different but the beads themselves are exactly the same.
 
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