Rosary for a beginner

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I’ve been going through some tough times lately and my husband has offered to pray the rosary for me every day. I’m absolutely thrilled because it is such a wonderful way of helping me cope and it also suggests that he might be moving away from his agnostic position.
Now, what do you suggest about teaching the Rosary to someone who doesn’t even know how to say the Hail Mary at this point? Where do I start from? Are there acceptable simplified ways of doing it? (Like a decade a day or something?)

I’d appreciate your suggestions. Thank you!
 
Hello there Contra,its good your husband is going to pray the rosary.Such a good Easter start!😃

Well,before you say the rosary,you’ll have to know the basic prayers such as The Our Father,Hail Mary,Glory Be,Nicene Creed(I believe)
as well as some Rosary prayers like Hail Holy Queen and the Fatima prayer.

Its recommended you get one of those little booklets on how to pray the rosary,they show you what to pray bead after bead.

Yes,you can pray a decade a day,and from there work up to saying two decades,then three and so on.You can even say the five decades on your weekends.

God bless you.JLU.🙂
 
I’d dive right in with the full rosary a day. 🙂 Don’t be scared. Mary won’t get angry with you.

Here are several audio recordings of the rosary from EWTN:
ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/selectseries.asp

There are several versions, including Mother Angelica’s with the Nuns, scriptural rosary(good to stay focused on the mysteries for beginners), etc.

My suggestion would be to print out some prayers or get a rosary pamphlet/prayer booklet and just read the words over and over for each bead as they say each prayer on the recording. Read along! Don’t worry if you don’t meditate on the mystery as much when you begin. You’ll get to that later once you memorize things.

God bless! Tell us how it’s going!
 
Hi all,

thank you so much for the suggestions and links. I’m relatively new to the Rosary myself and still need a cheat sheet with Mysteries for the day 😊 I can only imagine what it must be like for someone who doesn’t have a clue. I’ll teach him the prayers and suggest he says a decade a day for a start. I really appreciate his offer to pray for me and am convinced there will be some spiritual fruit from this. I’m actually hoping that praying the Rosary will have a great effect on him 😃 I’ve heard that’s often the case. (My husband was raised protestant, then turned agnostic but now has been talking about pope Benedict with great interest and affection for a while so something is in the air 👍)
 
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