Reciting the rosary during mass

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I know we’re not suppose to recite the rosary during mass.

Where can I find documents about it?

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TAS has the answer, I was going to say what a wise guy (in the best sense) but it did not come out right. I will look for his posts in the future.

The rosary is a beautiful prayer, but it is a private prayer (even when we come together to recite it).
The Mass is the public worship of the Church, the celebration of the Eucharist, the source and summit of our life in Christ, and Mary would be the last one to wish us to absent ourselves from full and active participation. If you ask her, while you are praying the rosary, I am sure she will say what she always says, “Do whatever He tells you.”
 
T.A.Stobie:
Correct.

I believe the Pope mentions this in his encyclical Rosarium Virginis Mariae.

see ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2ROSAR.HTM
I would get there are better sources as well.
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****ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE
***OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
JOHN PAUL II
TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY AND FAITHFUL
ON THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
Objections to the Rosary
  1. The timeliness of this proposal is evident from a number of considerations. First, the urgent need to counter a certain crisis of the Rosary, which in the present historical and theological context can risk being wrongly devalued, and therefore no longer taught to the younger generation. There are some who think that the centrality of the Liturgy, rightly stressed by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, necessarily entails giving lesser importance to the Rosary. Yet, as Pope Paul VI made clear, not only does this prayer not conflict with the Liturgy, it sustains it, since it serves as an excellent introduction and a faithful echo of the Liturgy, enabling people to participate fully and interiorly in it and to reap its fruits in their daily lives.
    Thomas am I missing something here?:confused:
    Annunciata:)
 
Oops, I thought it had the statement in it, but it doesn’t.

One of the church documents does go into it, but I can not recall or find which one right now.
 
Found it:

In DIRECTORY ON POPULAR PIETY AND THE LITURGY - PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES on the Vatican web site.
#13 The objective difference between pious exercises and devotional practices should always be clear in expressions of worship. Hence, the formulae proper to pious exercises should not be commingled with the liturgical actions. Acts of devotion and piety are external to the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and of the other sacraments.
On the one hand, a superimposing of pious and devotional practices on the Liturgy so as to differentiate their language, rhythm, course, and theological emphasis from those of the corresponding liturgical action, must be avoided, while any form of competition with or opposition to the liturgical actions, where such exists, must also be resolved. Thus, precedence must always be given to Sunday, Solemnities, and to the liturgical seasons and days.

Since, on the other, pious practices must conserve their proper style, simplicity and language, attempts to impose forms of “liturgical celebration” on them are always to be avoided.
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Annunciata:
Yet, as Pope Paul VI made clear, not only does this prayer not conflict with the Liturgy, it sustains it
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, since it serves as an excellent introduction and a faithful echo of the Liturgy, enabling people to participate fully and interiorly in it and to reap its fruits in their daily lives. Thomas am I missing something here?:confused:
Annunciata:)
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That quote is getting to the exceptional value that rosaries can add when used as preparation for Mass.
 
I find it said that people need to be told that while at Mass/Liturgy they should be focusing on that service and not doing something else! :crying:
 
My mom has always held the rosary in her hand during mass. I finally asked her about it when I was in college after hearing that you shouldn’t say the rosary during mass, and she said that she just prays it during the “down times”, when nothing is going on. Since the “Directory on Proper Piety…” says no, what is my moral obligation? None, and I should let her continue without saying anything? Mention it to her, and leave it up to her to decide if she wants to obey or not? I only see my parents twice a year or so, and I don’t see this as something that I could communicate to her in a way she wouldn’t take offense to via email or phone, but it’s going to be Christmas at the very earilest when I’ll see her again. I’m not saying that we should stop random people at mass from saying the rosary, but what do you do for your mother that’s been doing it for 50 years?
 
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My mom has always held the rosary in her hand during mass. I finally asked her about it when I was in college after hearing that you shouldn’t say the rosary during mass, and she said that she just prays it during the “down times”, when nothing is going on. Since the “Directory on Proper Piety…” says no, what is my moral obligation? None, and I should let her continue without saying anything? Mention it to her, and leave it up to her to decide if she wants to obey or not? I only see my parents twice a year or so, and I don’t see this as something that I could communicate to her in a way she wouldn’t take offense to via email or phone, but it’s going to be Christmas at the very earilest when I’ll see her again. I’m not saying that we should stop random people at mass from saying the rosary, but what do you do for your mother that’s been doing it for 50 years?
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If you have already mentioned it to her, I wouldn’t go any further with it. She is obviously devout, and deserves recognition for actually getting into Mass. Such things are always worthy of discussion when the family gets together, but don’t worry about her, it’s not the kind of thing that will make old Saint Peter slam the gates shut! 😉
 
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