Rosary Interrupted

[allenr74]

Hello,

First, thanks to all for answering my previous questions.

I was listening to a radio show yesterday and they read a letter from someone who has rededicated themselves to praying the rosary. The person wrote that before they touch there computer (I think they worked from home) they at least started to pray the rosary. If they could not complete it then and there, they would pick it up later.

In this instance, do you just finish your current decade? Do you have to say the Hail Holy Queen to end that “session”?

Thanks.

 

[DaveBj]

I’ve never heard that having a Rosary interrupted and then resuming it later is a problem. The very fact that there is an interruption would preclude having time to pray the HHQ at the moment. When I pray the Rosary at night with the lights out, I frequently fall asleep in the middle. Then when I wake up in the middle of the night, I just pick up where I left off.

Now when someone is praying a Rosary in a church or chapel with the intent of obtaining a plenary indulgence, it is stipulated that the Rosary must be complete and uninterrupted. But that is a special case.

 

[JRKH]

As the previous poster said, the act of being interrupted would seem to preclude a neat ending…It is an interruption.

Do what is most comfortable for you.

Peace
James

 

[Holly3278]

If I am interrupted during my Rosary, I try to first finish the decade I am on and then start it again on the next decade when I have the time to resume it. I prefer to pray the whole Rosary at once though.

 

[Bookcat]

And one can even pray just one decade or two