Praying the rosary while in bed

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Some nights I like to pray the rosary in bed, but I sometimes fall asleep during it. Is there any issue with that? If I remember where I left off I try to finish it the next morning, but sometimes I have no clue where I was I’m the rosary when I fell asleep.
 
It is totally fine. There are a lot of cultural speculations on this practice such as the angels finish it for you.

Sometimes I feel like if one does it more reverently it is more effective but it is still better than not doing it at all. And honestly sometimes I am really not that strong.

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It depends on your goal in saying the rosary. If you’re trying to improve your prayer life, then obviously it’s better if you schedule a time to pray when you are more awake. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to relax yourself at the end of a long day and turning to the Rosary to calm you down, remove anxiety etc then it’s okay if you say it to help yourself relax or sleep. Many people have used a Rosary for this purpose.
 
I have prayed the rosary in the past when in bed, mostly when I had a rather busy day and ran out of time or sometimes just to relax down. One thing I did find though, was if I feel asleep when I slept that I would wake with a start throughout the night a still praying the rosary and the rosary beads in my hands. My main focus was to finish the rosary.

I did sleep well, even with the frequent wakings.
 
If your intentions are good there’s no wrong time pray the Rosary.
 
I respect all opinions here. I’ll speak from my own experience. I used to pray the rosary while lying down. However, I noticed that all my requests or petitions went unanswered and my spiritual life was "dry. " Still, I continued doing it, until I read a Catholic newspaper wherein the president of bishops and several priests strongly encouraged the faithful to kneel when praying (if you’re still able to kneel). They said that it would make the prayers more solemn and focused. It’s also a sign of sacrifice, and an effort to show that we are taking our relationships with God, Jesus, or Mary seriously. And so I started kneeling to pray… for the first two months, I was struggling because I felt discomfort in my knees (I was kneeling on my bed) , but I noticed that my relationships with God, Mary, and Jesus have greatly improved and my prayers have been answered. Later on, my discomfort in kneeling had totally disappeared. Of course there are still times when I sit while praying but I make sure that when I pray the divine mercy chaplet, rosary, and Stations of the Cross, I kneel.
 
I need to work on my mind wandering during the Rosary. It’s a bad habit. However, I usually come up with great ideas though. Great points for papers and Eureka moments for problems. But that’s not the point of the Rosary. At least when I’m saying it.

However, you don’t have to say the Rosary in the bed. But I can’t think of a better way to fall asleep than invoking Mary and, through it, her Son.
 
I used to pray the rosary, but found out Jesus said not to do so, Matt 6:7-8, “But when ye pray, use not repetitions thinking that one will be heard for their many words.” Instead pray like St Paul starting with “Thanks lord for all things known and unknown you have done for me”, then pray for need of others and self, for God knows what we need before we even pray. The Rosary may be good for praying for breaking strongholds over nations, but daily personal prayers should be of thanks and praise and direct to point of need, and pray for His whole right way to draw nearer to God, pray directly to God and Jesus also, for the more direct one asks and prays to God and Jesus, the closer one becomes to them and be heard,pray not to saints,God will instruct saints to help us, see, saints follow Gods instructions and asking saints or anyone else but God and Jesus blocks our prayers from being heard by God and Jesus…Hope this helps,it helped me once I started praying as stated above,more requests are being answered. Bless you
 
Saint Padre Pios advice- Don"t worry about not finishing the rosary. Your guardian angel will finish it for you. :-). God bless. I’m glad you pray the rosary.
 
I have to say, the idea that God “answers” prayers more if we pray in a different position or pray one type of prayer over another is a really wrong idea.

God does not suddenly start “answering” prayers because we shifted to praying on our knees or prayed/ did not pray a Rosary. It may be that one’s personal prayer life with God improves because the person made a change that is beneficial to whatever they themselves needed, but there is no magic position, prayer, or other thing that suddenly gets God to “answer”. He answers when He feels like it and it also depends on the person receiving the “answer” paying attention and opening their heart and listening spiritually to hear any possible “answer” including a negative answer.
 
Gabiafterhours taught me this one:

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. As we Worship, So we Believe, So we Live
 
St. Bernadette used to say that it was always nice to go to sleep saying the Rosary. She was quoted to say that in doing this we would go to sleep like those babies that mumble to their mom before falling asleep :). I do it too, but I also like to find a time to say the Rosary earlier when I have the time. Either way, you could even pray separate decades throughout the day so that by the time you get to bed, if you have one or two left you’ll be more likely to finish them before you doze off to sleep speaking to our Mother 🙂
 
I’m not arguing you, but based on your post, I believe you may not praying the Rosary correctly. You see, the Bible verse you refer to speaks of mindless repetition. In other words, mechanical, empty repetition with the belief that just mumbling out meaningless words will somehow make God do what you want. The Lord prayed many times repeating the same words. For example, in the Garden of Getsemany. The Bible tells us that for three hours He prayed the same prayer “ If it is possible, take this cup away from me, but not my will but yours be done”. He would’ve also prayed the psalms through His life, thus praying the same prayers. He also taught us to pray the Our Father. The most important thing here is that the Rosary is not just about repeating the Hail Mary ( which is hardly empty repetition being that it is the way in which Our own God chose to greet her during the most amazing moment in human history, and the way in which St. Elizabeth honored Her and Our Lord as well) It is about meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, which are the Biblical events of Our Lord and Lady’s life. You are supposed to literally put yourself into the mystery with your imagination and with your mind as you say the words. You picture the day, the weather, you hear the sounds, you see His face, His words, the things He said, how He moves, and mediate on His actions through each decade. You meditate on His heart, “what moved you to do this?” Or “ how did you feel when you saw/heard/felt this”?The words, I once heard a priest say, are like background music :). The Rosary is never repetitive or empty if you pray it right. Every time I pray it I find a new way of seeing a mystery. For example, the Nativity, I will picture St. Joseph knocking on doors and getting rejected, worried over Our Lady and embarrassed that He can’t provide her with a place to rest. I picture it getting darker and His praying that the Lord would help Him soon. I imagine Our Lady comforting Him and reassuring Him that everything will be okay. The the next time I pray it I will picture it differenty. I’ll focus on the actual birth, on the Shepards’ vision, on the fact that He was born poor, and Humble in the midst of animals for love of me! If you pray the Rpsary right, it is taking Our Lady’s hand so she’ll help you get to know Him. Who could know Him more than His mom? The Rosary is a time machine lol! Our Lord is not bound to time or space, so if you pray, say the sorrowful mysteries, imagine Him alone during the first decade “ The Agony in the Garden”. Imagine how cold it was, how dark and quiet. He was letting Himself experience fear and anxiety, He felt each of Our ingratitudes, our sins, our death. Imagine Him stumbling to the apostles only to find them asleep, imagine how lonely, how painful that had to be. See the hurt on His face, hear the sadness in his voice. Then imagine yourself running to Him, hugging Him and telling Him you’ll stay up with Him, and what? He would’ve felt your hug when this happened :). Imagine also Walking the streets with Our Lady,St. Magdalene, and St. John during “The carrying of the cross”. The Rosary is never the same :)! Good luck and please pray for me!
 
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Its fine.
There is a homilly about this situation.
I will try to write it short.
The priest is no longer alive,but He said that Mary is not angry.
She is happy you try even tired.
That even while you are sleeping you are holding her arms…
 
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As I said in my earlier post, I respect all your opinions here and I do not want to argue with anyone. As for me, I find kneeling while praying the rosary to be the most effective for me. As I started the habit of kneeling, I was struggling because I felt discomfort in my knees. There were even times when I went out of balance and fell on my bed…at other times, my knees were shaking, but I PERSEVERED, and you know what? I realized, through the act of kneeling, and persevering in it, how much I wanted to show God, Jesus, and Mary that I love them, I revere them, I adore them, and how willing I am to humble myself before them. Love entails sacrifice, and yes, kneeling is a form of sacrifice. I really wanted to improve my relationship with them so I heeded the pastoral exhortation encouraging the faithful to kneel while praying. This was my first motivation.

I firmly believe that God, Jesus, and Mary saw this sincere effort on my part, as I noticed that after kneeling, and persevering in it, I became more adept and more confident in communicating my love, thoughts, feelings and petitions to them. I definitely felt that they became responsive to me by answering my countless prayers.

I’ll end this post by quoting the pastoral exhortation that encouraged me to kneel:

“If we want renewal, let us learn how to kneel again. Our generation seems to have lost the religious gesture of kneeling. We seem to have compromised the virtue of humility with a culture of self-security and independence…”
 
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