Pray the Rosary Daily

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Hello,

I have been trying to get started praying a daily rosary but I was wondering, how do those of you that pray a rosary every single day, find time for it in your busy lives? I have tried praying it in the morning but I’m too rushed to get out of the house to be able to focus on it. I’ve tried praying it at night but if its so late, I usually will fall asleep in the midst of it. I am open to all suggestions and also to other suggestions for daily prayer that could go along with the rosary.

Thanks y’all and God bless!
 
Not to oversimplify the matter, but I found a time when I am always free. For me, it’s 6:00pm. At that time every day except Friday, I’m praying the rosary. (On Fridays I’m sacristan for a 6:30pm Mass, so I pray my rosary at Adoration later in the evening.)

I know what you mean about praying so late that you fall asleep in mid-prayer, though. Unless I’m out chanting with others, Compline routinely eludes me :yawn::sleep::blushing:
 
I’m struggling to find the time daily as well. As a busy mom, I hardly even get a moment to tinkle by myself. 😊
When by the grace of God, both kids are asleep, I will pray my rosary but I find I’m always somehow interrupted by the UPS man, the mail lady, neighbor, etc.

I try to go to Mass early to pray with everyone but like this morning, I was barely on time for Mass.

The past couple of nights, I’ve found that I like praying my rosary when DD goes to bed, or shortly thereafter. Then I will do my evening prayers afterwards.

It’s hard for me to juggle housework, kids, husband, prayers. I know the prayers should be first. I was thinking about finding an app that I can listen to and pray out loud with as I go about the house with earphones but I wouldn’t be sitting down and meditating. Maybe it’s better than nothing.

I want to order a rosary bracelet so I can pray in the van or out and about.
 
It was easy for me. I used to pray the Rosary on my morning commute. I recently added the digital Breviary to my daily routine. Now, I pray the Rosary on my way to the gym after work or on the way home.
 
What I’m doing is trying first to find the time for a single decade in the morning
 
I think it is ok to pray the Rosary one decade at a time, when you have time. That’s what I do. One decade before work or school, one decade during breaks, two decades at lunch, one when I get home… It all adds up. I have a problem praying the Rosary with true devotion too, reading the section of the Holy Bible that that Mystery came from and then focusing on it helps. Also if you have an iphone or ipad or ipod touch, the free Laudate app will make this easier.God Bless!
 
Pray while doing your other tasks. This way you cultivate the presence of God by praying without ceasing. All well intentioned prayer is good, no matter how distracted one may be.

My :twocents:
 
Well you do have to make time for a contemplative Rosary and a lot of us retired folks do. But you working folks can also recite a Rosary while on a treadmill, walking the dog, waiting for a doctors appointment etc.

One of the great things about the Rosary is that’s it’s informal and has next best spiritual impact of attending a mass.
 
sowinskija said:
I think it is ok to pray the Rosary one decade at a time, when you have time. That’s what I do. One decade before work or school, one decade during breaks, two decades at lunch, one when I get home… It all adds up. I have a problem praying the Rosary with true devotion too, reading the section of the Holy Bible that that Mystery came from and then focusing on it helps. Also if you have an iphone or ipad or ipod touch, the free Laudate app will make this easier.God Bless!
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Thanks for your suggestion to break it up throughout the day. That will really work for me to just do a decade before school, one at lunch, one after school, one in the evening, and one before bed. There are a lot of really good apps for the ipad and iphone to work with for catholics and with the rosary. You should try iRosary which lets you pretty much pray the rosary with real beads! It cost about $1.99 I think but it was really worth it!
God bless!
 
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One of the great things about the Rosary is that’s it’s informal and has next best spiritual impact of attending a mass.
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Thank you for your suggestions and that is so true that it doesn’t really matter the formalities with which it is prayed but it still has such a great impact on our souls and spirits.

God bless!
 
I pray the Rosary and Divine Mercy apps on my iPhone. I can click through the beads and it saves my spot.
 
landon13 said:
Hello,

I have been trying to get started praying a daily rosary but I was wondering, how do those of you that pray a rosary every single day, find time for it in your busy lives? I have tried praying it in the morning but I’m too rushed to get out of the house to be able to focus on it. I’ve tried praying it at night but if its so late, I usually will fall asleep in the midst of it. I am open to all suggestions and also to other suggestions for daily prayer that could go along with the rosary.

Thanks y’all and God bless!
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I’ve been praying it for like 16 months by now. Its amazingly powerful. I began having problems with my schedule too. What I recommend you to do is to go here:
comepraytherosary.org/

On that website, you can pray it with others online and it takes some 16 or 17 minutes to do so. It helps a lot. Specially when you are sleepy.
 
I pray every the Holy Rosary at different times of the day. It is a question of discipline and time management. Oftentimes I pray the Holy Rosary at 12:45 PM USA Eastern Time Zone joining with Pope Benedict XVI who prays the Holy Rosary at 6:45 PM Rome Time. Besides, I pray the Holy Rosary because I am a member of the Confratenity of the Holy Rosary.

God bless those who pray the Holy Roary every day!
 
I pray the rosary daily, either driving to or from work. Or, I take a long walk with the dog and pray as we walk along.
 
Congratulations for your effort to pray the Holy Rosary. God will reward you abundantly and the Blessed Virgin Mary will watch over you.

I try to pray the Holy Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament.
 
i try to pray at night before i sleep a great way to end the day, i would like to try in the morning too but am guilty of being out and about… our pope in his jesus of nazareth book says we should pray multiple times during the day to communicate to god our events and use prayer as a bedrock
 
On work days it is easy for me to pray a decade at different times of the day as I walk between subway stations. Lately I’ve been deliberately missing my usual subway home and taking the next one so I don’t have to rush or get impatient or feel like punishing people who get in my way 🙂

On days off I can take a rosary walk in the park (and keep the beads away from passing bikes who could snag and destroy it!). Of course on Sundays it’s really easy to find a place and time. 🙂

I personally found that it helped to invest in a real nice rosary (nice by my standards, but still not that expensive) because I look forward to the aesthetic aspect of the experience as well as the spiritual.
 
Let us pray daily the Holy Rosary for world peace and unity!

GOD BLESS THOSE WHO FIND TIME TO PRAY!
 
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