Question about the Rosary

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While I don’t have a physical Rosary yet I have a pretty nifty app on my phone that walks you through the prayers which is pretty awesome since I don’t have all of them memorzied yet. But I have a few questions…
  1. Why are some of the prayers (specifically Hail Mary) repeated more often than the others?
  2. Why is Hail Mary the most repeated?
  3. Is there any reason not to use a Rosary every time you pray regardless of what prayers you’re reciting?
 
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While I don’t have a physical Rosary yet I have a pretty nifty app on my phone that walks you through the prayers which is pretty awesome since I don’t have all of them memorzied yet.
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Aren’t modern gadgets great! What a wonderful tool.
But I have a few questions…
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  1. Why are some of the prayers (specifically Hail Mary) repeated more often than the others?
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The repeating of the prayers follows a specific number based on the number of Psalms recited daily by religious. At the time the rosary was developed religious (monks, nuns, etc.) recited the 150 Psalms of the Liturgy of the Hours, which is the daily prayer of the Church. Most people were illiterate or didn’t know Latin (which is the language the Psalms were prayed using), so the rosary came about, praying 10 Hail Marys with an Our Father in between them for the number of Psalms. Thus, a “whole” rosary is 15 decades/150 Hail Marys.
  1. Why is Hail Mary the most repeated?
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The Hail Mary is the Gospel account of the Incarnation in a nutshell. Every time we pray a Hail Mary we are repeating the words of the Angel Gabriel to Mary and those of St. Elizabeth taken from the Gospel of Luke, along with the invocation of Mary’s intercession. There are 10 Hail Marys to every decade for the reason I described above. 🙂
  1. Is there any reason not to use a Rosary every time you pray regardless of what prayers you’re reciting?
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None at all. The rosary may be prayed any time any where by anyone. It may be recited in public in groups, as well. It’s great while waiting for a bus or driving a car, etc. So, go for it! 😃
 
mdrummer5 said:
While I don’t have a physical Rosary yet I have a pretty nifty app on my phone that walks you through the prayers which is pretty awesome since I don’t have all of them memorzied yet. But I have a few questions…
  1. Why are some of the prayers (specifically Hail Mary) repeated more often than the others?
cos its the way the virgin mary asked st dominic to recite it when she gave him the rosary
  1. Why is Hail Mary the most repeated?
so that we can appeal to our heavenly mother mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death…
  1. Is there any reason not to use a Rosary every time you pray regardless of what prayers you’re reciting?
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its perfectly ok to use a rosary for any kinda prayer, i use mine to count off how many holy souls prayer ive prayed sometimes
 
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