Question: What are some easy ways to learn how to pray the rosary

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What are some easy ways to learn how to pray the rosary.
 
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For those that are inclined, there are a variety of smart phone apps that help as well.
 
The Baltimore Catholic Cathedral has the rosary online under Faith Formation and Prayer. As you pray you click on the bead or picture. I use it when I need to stay focused.

www.cathedralofmary.org
 
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I started praying the rosary this year. I went to confession and was given a decade of the rosary. I had no idea what they meant. I googled it. Then I started doing one decade a day. Then I started doing one mystery attached to it. Then I downloaded a rosary app to have the mysteries, and learned those. Then I eventually memorized the Hail Holy Queen. I bought a beaded rosary in June and prayed a 5 decade rosary every day, stumbling along the way. So, slowly but surely from Easter to now, I know all the mysteries, prayers, and do a 5 decade rosary daily, at least.

It’s been an amazing experience followed by that Holy Spirit experience at confession and the penance which lead me closer with the Church.

I hope the same goes for you. God bless.
 
What helped me learn how to say it and know all the mysteries by heart was by printing an online pamphlet that had all the mysteries and then saying a novena. Every day I would take out the pamphlet for a mystery until I knew that on Tuesdays it was Sorrowful and I would remember the 5 events of the mystery.
 
I’ve started saying the rosary daily but wanted to improve how I said by including the mysteries. I downloaded an app on Android called Rosary Audio, very handy tells you which days are which mysteries and gives you the prayers etc and a Bible verse to contemplate for each mystery. I just use the text version as the audio is really slow and annoying.
 
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Find a YouTube video you like, and pray along with it.
 
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I have a great ap on my cell phone. You don’t need beads, it has all the prayers and you can go at your own pace. Free in the ap store.
 
Often there are leaflets or even some books available at Church with the mysteries, I quite like the ones with illustrations of the mystery as a prayer aid.
Another possible place to try is if your parish has the Legion of Mary, they often have some leaflets and may even give you a cheap rosary as well.
Or as others have suggested there are many apps available such as Laudate, which has a virtual rosary as well as an audio version and the app is free.
Whichever way you use, the key is repetition. The more often you say the rosary, the better you will remember it.
 
Individually; a decade here and there; on a long walk. But I find groups to be too fast and not meditative enough.
 
I memorize the best when I hear something over and over, so I got a cassette tape and prayed along with it.

I also became brave and prayed it on my own, and at first I came up short on the mysteries, so I would have to think about what I had missed and then pray something lkke the second mystery last. I am sure No One minded 😉

So I like the idea of an audio to learn with, and then later adding a You Tube with visuals, but others might be helped by the visuals at first.
 
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