Praying with a physical Rosary vs Praying with your fingers?

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Is there any greater grace associated with praying with a physical Rosary (especially one blessed personally by the Holy Father) than there is using one’s fingers to pray?

I’m asking because, yesterday, for the first time in a while, I decided to pray with my fingers instead of my blessed Rosary.

It just didn’t feel the same, it didn’t feel as genuine, nor as meritorious.

Is there a difference? Is there more grace praying with a blessed Rosary?
 
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Is there any greater grace associated with praying with a physical Rosary (especially one blessed personally by the Holy Father) than there is using one’s fingers to pray?

I’m asking because, yesterday, for the first time in a while, I decided to pray with my fingers instead of my blessed Rosary.

It just didn’t feel the same, it didn’t feel as genuine, nor as meritorious.

Is there a difference? Is there more grace praying with a blessed Rosary?
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If you haven’t got a rosary lying around, use your fingers. The prayers are the same, regardless. I just find it easier to do with a rosary.
 
The Rosary is nothing more than a place holder for where you are in the meditations, nothing more.

It itself is not prayer, but an instrument used in prayer.

I always remember the apparition of St Bernadette, where her aunt gave her a fancy rosary, from Paris and told her to use those when the Lady appeared, not her plain ones. When the Blessed Mother appeared to Bernadette, she asked, “where’s your rosary ?” Bernadette, said, “in my pocket.” The Blessed Mother said, “use them.” Bernadette’s rosary was nothing more than simple wooden beads with string. The crucifix was just a wooden cross.

Prayer is always from the center of your being, not from outside.

Jim
 
"For well-disposed members of the faithful, the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals sanctifies almost every event of their lives with the divine grace which flows from the Paschal mystery of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. From this source all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. There is scarcely any proper use of material things which cannot be thus directed toward the sanctification of men and the praise of God."

So does that mean that if I’m in Mortal Sin, it is not efficacious?
 
Zeldarocks2 said:
"For well-disposed members of the faithful, the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals sanctifies almost every event of their lives with the divine grace which flows from the Paschal mystery of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. From this source all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. There is scarcely any proper use of material things which cannot be thus directed toward the sanctification of men and the praise of God."

So does that mean that if I’m in Mortal Sin, it is not efficacious?
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No, you are not in Mortal nor Venial Sin.

The first line of the CCC is important:
1670 Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do, but by the Church’s prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it
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The use of a Rosary serves the purpose of reminding us of what we’re doing, i.e. praying, but they are not prayer, but the instrument used for prayer.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
No, you are not in Mortal nor Venial Sin.

The first line of the CCC is important:

The use of a Rosary serves the purpose of reminding us of what we’re doing, i.e. praying, but they are not prayer, but the instrument used for prayer.

Jim
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Pax Christi!

Zeldarocks2 is asking, “IF I am in mortal sin, …” not whether.

Do prayers “work” if one is in a state of mortal sin? Or “work” not as well?

God bless.
 
I use my blessed rosary every night, but when driving or walking I use my fingers or a pocket rosary that has a crucifix and one decade of beads. .
 
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