Praying the Rosary

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The praying of the Rosary should be meditative. If a decade is focusing on, say, Jesus’ coronation with the crown of thorns, one should pray through the decade while meditating on that particular mystery. However, one should also be praying ten Hail Mary’s during the same decade. I find it difficult to pray a Hail Mary while contemplating on the words of the prayer, while simultaneously meditating on a particular mystery. Is it even supposed to be prayed like that? Can a person just recite the Hail Mary’s without meditating on their words all that much while devoting the whole decade to meditating on the mystery? Or could somebody pray a part of a Hail Mary meditatively, then meditate on the Mystery, Hail Mary, Mystery, etc. for the whole decade? How do you pray the Rosary?
 
The mystery is the essense of the Rosary while the words we say and the beads we hold help us to keep focus on what we are doing. So think about the crown of thorns on the head of Jesus and his sufferings in the mockery of the soldiers is what is important. The more love we pour into this event, the more effective the rosary becomes. Remembering his great love for ourselves and for all the others he was offering to his Father, is the dispositon which brings grace to ourselves and those for whom we pray. Love is everything.

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.
 
Years ago when I first started praying the rosary, it was very helpful to me to have a picture of the particular mystery to look at and to keep my focused. Just keep doing it and it will get easier. It’s difficult in the beginning because its all so new and you’re trying to learn it. There’s a lot to it. Hang in there!
 
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Years ago when I first started praying the rosary, it was very helpful to me to have a picture of the particular mystery to look at and to keep my focused.
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This is also what I do if I pray the Rosary. It helps a lot! 👍
 
So, you would consider contemplating over the mysteries as if you were witnessing them more important than meditating on the Rosary’s words?
 
When I first started praying the rosary, I had to concentrate more on the prayers because they were new to me. I’m a convert. Once you have them memorized, the rest just falls into place. Yes, I concentrate more on the particular mystery than the words. If you keep doing it regularly you will see.
 
The Rosary can also be recited without contemplation on the mysteries. Then 15 minutes can be given in contemplation of the mysteries.
 
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So, you would consider contemplating over the mysteries as if you were witnessing them more important than meditating on the Rosary’s words?
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As you may surmise from the varied answers here, there is no “right” way of praying the Rosary. The only “right” way is to just pray it because God wants you to. And when you pray the Rosary with this intention, then everything will clear up. “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans” (Romans 8:28).
 
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