Public Rosary at Adoration?

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My church has Adoration immediately after Tuesday even ing Mass. I would like to stay and spend time with Our Lord in quiet. A group immediately starts praying the rosary with specific intentions. They pray fast and in response. It’s too fast for me to place any true meaning in my prayers. They also add some other prayers which I do not know. I usually end up leaving because I can’t Adore and pray while they are praying.

My question is this: do other parishes with Adoration have quiet or do they have public rosary prayers.

Another parish has a 24/7 perpetual Adoration chapel which I love. It’s always quiet and reverend.
 
It’s quiet at most parishes I’ve been to, but one parish did have a rosary prayed by some adorers, not led by the priest. I found it very distracting.
 
Adoration at the cathedral I frequent has always been silent. There are several prayer groups that meet throughout the week but they never meet in the chapel to my knowledge.
 
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A group in our parish tried to say the rosary out loud during Adoration, but the parish priest told them to stop.
 
Ours is not led by a priest, either. It’s prearranged for a different person to pray a decade. They hurry in just as their decade is to start. Sometimes this leads to confusion and a decade is repeated.
 
Exactly. It is distracting to have the rosary before Mass or at adoration, not to mention just people chatting in the church or chapel at those times. In his 11/15/17 talk, the Holy Father said that he recommended silence in church (see Zenit article or just google “silence in church before Mass” and the pope’s remarks will come up.
 
Well, it’s not really public, since it is behind closed doors in a chapel, but I know what you mean. Yet, don’t let fellow parishioners become a near occasion of sin. We have a Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3:00 PM that I participate in. Go at a different hour, during the evening or ??? Also, try mental prayer, rather than verbal. You may follow them silently, using the prayers as a cadence, and take an illustrated Rosary leaflet with you so that you can ponder the images. Silent prayer is as effective as verbal. Yes, it is probably done more quickly than you prefer, but each of those present went through the same acclimatization process. Anyway, not to worry, as the Lord knows your heart.
 
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‘Public’ hours of prayer should be posted somewhere near the entrance of any adoration chapel so that you know when they will be happening and, more importantly, when they have been approved by the pastor. That way, if they are not your ‘cup of tea’ you can avoid them.

We’ve just changed our Saturday adoration hours so the Chaplet of Mercy has been moved…that reminds me that I have to re-design the sign. Sigh, one more thing to do this week.
 
I regularly attend an Adoration chapel that has a lot of quiet Adoration time but also has some public prayer time happening during the week. The Divine Mercy chaplet is said publicly in the Adoration chapel after the morning Mass each day, and on Thursdays there is a Flame of Love prayer group that meets in the chapel for about an hour.

It’s a pretty small time period out of the week and there are plenty of other time slots available for people who want to spend quiet time with Jesus.
 
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the Holy Father said that he recommended silence in church
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By “silence”, the Holy Father did not mean that you are never supposed to pray a rosary out loud in there.
The Enchiridion of Indulgences provides a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions for the act of “reciting” the rosary in a church. It does not provide it if you say the rosary silently. You must “recite” it out loud. Does this sound like the Church is discouraging the praying of a rosary in church?

I can understand the concern about silence in an Adoration chapel specifically, but to say we’re never allowed to pray a Rosary or Divine Mercy out loud in church is a gross overstatement.
 
My church has Adoration available whenever the building is open (I think 7AM-9PM). Most of that time is silent, except immediately after daily Mass when the Rosary is prayed, and on Friday at 3PM when the Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed. I try to avoid those times if I want to go to Adoration.
 
In our parish there is Adoration before every Mass with Chaplet of the Divine Mercy & the Rosary prayed publicly followed by Benediction.

I have to admit that I prefer silent Adoration, having grown up with Forty Hours Devotion where I was sometimes the only person in the church. I get irritated by the chaplet & rosary mumbled so that if you walked in blind you wouldn’t have a clue what was going on since not a word is understood.
 
We have both, a Monday night Exposition with ROsary, and then 24 hours once a month in silence except for Divine Mercy at 3 PM.
Call your church office and inquire if there are certain hours which maintain silence. It could be that they are not aware that this is going on, or it could be approved and not published. In either case, specifics need to be published so that people may make a choice.
 
We have a perpetual adoration chapel. It is a silent space and most often there is only one person in the chapel.
 
My Parish offers daily quiet Adoration in the Chapel. We also have a weekly Monday night Holy Hour in the Church with Adoration, recitation of the Rosary, Miraculous Medal Novena & Chaplet Of Divine Mercy.
 
Don’t let the prayers of others disturb your quiet time with Jesus. Plug your ears or invest in some ear plugs or something.

There is a small group of people at my parish who begin praying the Rosary together about 5 minutes after the end of every 8 a.m. daily Mass, even when there is Adoration after Mass.
 
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I’ve attended an hour long Adoration where the priest led a rosary. It wasn’t hurried, mumbled or loud. I liked it. After the rosary you had silence for the rest of the time.
 
At my parish during adoration the blessed sacrament is exposed in the nave, and no one prays the rosary in group’s, in the chapel they do however.

I used to leave right away because of the chitchat etc after morning Mass but now i don’t hear it anymore, Sundays are a bit different though.
 
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The rosary is sometimes said before Mass in the parish I attend, usually just during May and October and on certain feast days/Solemnities. It’s said a while before Mass so there’s always a period of silence before Mass begins. I can only recall it being prayed once during Adoration (and that detail was publicised). If the rosary is said well it can be lovely but I’ve often been put off group recitations as it often turns into hurried babbles and sometimes I don’t even know which mysteries are being announced as they are just mumbled.
 
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