Questions on Praying the Rosary

[ALM531]

Hi, everyone.

I have always been a prayerful person, but recently in my life I have been faced with unusual amounts of struggle and have turned to praying the Rosary. I understand that most people pray the Rosary with one of the mysteries meditated on it’s corresponding day. I am wondering, if I pray the Rosary twice in one day, am I to meditate the same mystery both times? Any information or advice is helpful and welcome. Thank you all.

 

[Jguerra]

The Rosary is a devotion. There is no set way to pray it. Some pray all twenty decades throughout the day–5 in the morning, 5 at noon, 5 after dinner and 5 before bedtime. You may pray the Rosary once a day, or more. As for which set of mysteries, it is at your discretion. Some people like to meditate on the Passion of Our Lord–they may choose to spend their daily devotions on the Sorrowful Mysteries. Others on fire with the love of God in their hearts, like St. Paul meditate on the awesome events of Our Lord’s resurrection (see Phil. 3:10). You can always follow the traditional pattern of praying the Rosary according to the days of the week.

Bottom line, follow your heart and meditate on the mysteries of your choice.

Joe

 

[VivienneJ]

The Rosary is a private devotion that you can pray whatever way you feel comfortable with.

A side story. Before I became Catholic I had a Rosary (educated by Dominican nuns, I knew what it was), I knew the prayers, but not the meditations. One night about 8 years ago, my friend and her husband were involved in a near fatal car accident. By chance I had sent her a text message which she got just as they were leaving a meeting they had attended, she had her phone in her hand to message me (her husband was driving), because she had her phone in her hand at the moment of the accident she was able to phone a nearby family member immediately for help she also got her niece to use the same phone to tell me what had happened and to ask me to pray for them. I was really afraid for my friend, particularly as there was a huge strike at the public hospitals, where accident victims would normally go for the initial treatment, which meant that the private hospitals were over-burdened too. I was honestly so afraid that both my friend and her husband were going die that night and I couldn’t find the words to pray. Picked up my Rosary and prayed around and around and around it, no meditations, just the prayers, until I got the message that both people had been stabilised and admitted to a hospital.

It could be said that I wasn’t praying the Rosary ‘properly’ without the meditations, but I think those prayers helped in this situation.

 

[ClearWater]

Hi, everyone.

I have always been a prayerful person, but recently in my life I have been faced with unusual amounts of struggle and have turned to praying the Rosary. I understand that most people pray the Rosary with one of the mysteries meditated on it’s corresponding day. I am wondering, if I pray the Rosary twice in one day, am I to meditate the same mystery both times? Any information or advice is helpful and welcome. Thank you all.

If you pray 2 rosaries, you can pray both the same mysteries, or pick different ones.

There are so many variations on the rosary. Some people pray 3 rosaries together, like in older times…to form a complete one. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried 3 together to form like one big rosary. Some people even do all four, 20 decades!

I’ve seen scriptural rosaries, pro-life rosary, just a bunch of different variations within the rosary.

I really like one which I’m not sure if it’s a chaplet or rosary. It’s of the 7 Sorrows of Mary.
See below:
rosaryandchaplets.com/chaplets/seven_sorrows_prayer.html

Whatever you decide of those options, I really believe Our Lady would be pleased!

 

[bben15]

The Rosary is a private devotion that you can pray whatever way you feel comfortable with.

A side story. Before I became Catholic I had a Rosary (educated by Dominican nuns, I knew what it was), I knew the prayers, but not the meditations. One night about 8 years ago, my friend and her husband were involved in a near fatal car accident. By chance I had sent her a text message which she got just as they were leaving a meeting they had attended, she had her phone in her hand to message me (her husband was driving), because she had her phone in her hand at the moment of the accident she was able to phone a nearby family member immediately for help she also got her niece to use the same phone to tell me what had happened and to ask me to pray for them. I was really afraid for my friend, particularly as there was a huge strike at the public hospitals, where accident victims would normally go for the initial treatment, which meant that the private hospitals were over-burdened too. I was honestly so afraid that both my friend and her husband were going die that night and I couldn’t find the words to pray. Picked up my Rosary and prayed around and around and around it, no meditations, just the prayers, until I got the message that both people had been stabilised and admitted to a hospital.

It could be said that I wasn’t praying the Rosary ‘properly’ without the meditations, but I think those prayers helped in this situation.

Another example of the power of the Rosary. Alleluia!