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paperwight66
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It’s surely no different to a woman wearing a necklace. Or carrying spare jewellery.
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RPRPsych
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Well, count me in as an infrequent flyer too.I do not know where to post this except here.
I have looked online and even airline security website. So here is my big question…
Can I keep my rosary with me on airplane flight? and another I bought as a gift?
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I’ve only had a couple of occasions to test this, and both times, I never had a problem.
My (metal) rosary also escaped scrutiny when we were put “under the scanner” when the Prime Minister visited our college, for some reason or the other.
So I think it’s absolutely safe.
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Marysann
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We fly often, and I always have a rosary in my purse. I have never been questioned about it. I usually begin the rosary as soon as I am seated. I can tell how long the taxiing is by where I am in my rosary when we actually take off. I don’t have one of those rosaries made without any metal. I don’t think they are necessary for commercial flights, but I did give my Army officer son one before he was deployed to the Middle East.
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DECatholic617
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Once, while my husband was going through RCIA, he brought a rosary onto the plane with him. He wasn’t in the practice of praying with it yet, but having the rosary on him brought him great comfort and peace. (He hates flying.) It wasn’t a problem at all.
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Aran_Houlihan
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When I go on Pilgrimage to Lourdes I have my rosary beads handing from jeans and there has been never been a problem with it and we say a decade of the rosary’s wiles we are in are with one of the bishops leading it
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GangGreen
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I always bring mine as I alwas pray a rosary around lift off (I’m always nervous during takeoff 
). Just put it in your carry on if you don’t want the hassle of the metal. Otherwise just find a rosary that’s only string and beads.
). Just put it in your carry on if you don’t want the hassle of the metal. Otherwise just find a rosary that’s only string and beads.
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WingsOfEagles
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If they allow women to have necklaces, I wouldn’t think a Rosary would be considered any more dangerous.
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mcmitton
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Back in the day, before the “x-ray” of passengers, when we could just walk in, go to the gate, and get on the plane… way back then…
I am a retired airline captain. I always carried a rosary in my uniform jacket pocket and wore a stainless steel crucifix around my neck…
Then came the “x-ray” and all passengers and crew had to pass through. The rosary and the crucifix would cause the alarm to ring. Needless to say, I moved my rosary and crucifix into my flight bag thenceforth. They were still near, but not on me. I really missed have the rosary and crucifix on my person.
Forgive an old girl’s memories. I need another cuppa’.
Mary Carolyn
I am a retired airline captain. I always carried a rosary in my uniform jacket pocket and wore a stainless steel crucifix around my neck…
Then came the “x-ray” and all passengers and crew had to pass through. The rosary and the crucifix would cause the alarm to ring. Needless to say, I moved my rosary and crucifix into my flight bag thenceforth. They were still near, but not on me. I really missed have the rosary and crucifix on my person.
Forgive an old girl’s memories. I need another cuppa’.
Mary Carolyn
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ccmcmg
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More power to them. I bring my Rosary on the plane, and have prayed it on every flight over the past 2 months (10 legs??). Not once have I been questioned. I do it somewhat discreetly, and listen to my phone to pray with the Rosary app I have. I have it on my lap and in my hand. I do not hide it, but I do it discreetly so as not to be the ‘street corner’ worshipper. However, I will not hide it. If they choose to kick me off an American flight for praying silently with my Rosary, let them.
Christina
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MissRose73
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I carry a rosary in my purse with me when I travel no matter the mode of transport. No one has looked at me strangely for doing so. I have read religious books on trains and planes, and no one has been offended one bit.
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chain
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I make wire wrapped rosaries. I am sure I have brought my personal one on a plane a few times - without issue (it is sterling and hematite).
I have been tempted to make one out of the correct gauge fishing leader. The beads would probably keep it from being a decent garrote. Perhaps some day I will try it - but I suspect it will not be an easy project (with wire wrapped rosaries, you clip the wire and then crimp the end down - with hardened wire, I will have to use a different (much stronger) cutter and will have to wrap a much longer tail.
I have been tempted to make one out of the correct gauge fishing leader. The beads would probably keep it from being a decent garrote. Perhaps some day I will try it - but I suspect it will not be an easy project (with wire wrapped rosaries, you clip the wire and then crimp the end down - with hardened wire, I will have to use a different (much stronger) cutter and will have to wrap a much longer tail.
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dconklin
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I few just a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, rosaries are common jewelry for many people so the TSA won’t have any problem with them.
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LoveMercyGrace
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I wanted to share my experience of flying and having my rosary with me…
As everyone said ( and thank you) there was no problem at all. I carry it with me all the time
so it was the same flying.
And I prayed a rosary each way. Very beautiful, praying up in the clouds!
As everyone said ( and thank you) there was no problem at all. I carry it with me all the time
so it was the same flying.
And I prayed a rosary each way. Very beautiful, praying up in the clouds!
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Veronica_Anne
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The last time I flew was several years ago. It was when the TSA first started having people remove their shoes before checking through the line.
The date that I flew was the day AFTER the first showing of Mel Gibson’s movie – The Passion of the Christ. Because it was Friday, I prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Well, just the ONE – the first – decade where Jesus is in the Garden praying about submitting his human self to the will of God the Father.
My flight lasted – as usual – just an hour and 15 minutes. Even though I began praying the rosary as soon as my back end hit my seat and I had buckled up – I hadn’t even gotten CLOSE to finishing praying that first decade!
Needless to say, I REALLY got into praying that mystery.
Paid off. Not that praying for intentions during the rosary is wrong – it is not. We are SUPPOSED to focus on our intentions, too.
Yet – although that trip that I took was one that was already to be heavily laden with emotional and practical struggles – God’s will for me came through in the most beautiful way! I never, ever would have anticipated such graces.
The trip was a week long. The entire week was full of small and large graces.
God is GOOD!!!
The trip’s events, the interactions with people I had during that trip, and happy coincidences were VERY fruitful!
I went back - no longer uptight or anxious – but calm, refreshed, and “fed” in ways I would never have imagined.
Difficult to name or describe those graces that God granted to me during that trip. The fruit although more subtle than great – still was great and joyful.
P.S. I did use the rosary that I brought with me in the zipped pouch made for my rosary. I kept that pouch in my front jeans pocket. I was not show-offy about using the rosary. I kept it pretty much clenched in my left palm and moved the beads with my fingers on my right hand. I was not hiding it. Not at all. Just that it was most practical way to hold them because there was someone sitting in the seat next to me. My other side was the window. Which much of the time had the blinds down because the direction the Sun was shining was straight into my face. No biggie. It’s always easier for me to pray the rosary with my eyes closed, anyway.
P.P.S. Even if I did not have my rosary with me - I still have 10 fingers to use. Mom (the only Catholic parent we had) taught us to count our fingertips by tapping the pad on our thumb against the tip of the other fingers.
Tap both one thumb and then the other thumb for the Our Father and the Creed.
Tap the 3 middle fingers for the 3 Hail Marys at the beginning of the rosary.
At each decade, use the thumb to tap once really hard on the first finger to count the “1st” bead. And then for each of the other 9 beads, tap once gently on the subsequent 8 fingers for the last 8 beads of that decade.
At the end of the 5th decade, squeeze both hands into a fist to pray the “Hail, Holy Queen.”
Then for the Amen, open both of your fists into a flat palm and with a soft motion hinged by your wrist, shake out your hands in a loose “jazz hands” motion.
This means that I don’t ever have to have my rosary with me. It’s the little pamphlet listing the decades in whatever mystery that I might need to be reminded if it’s been too long since I last prayed the rosary.
The date that I flew was the day AFTER the first showing of Mel Gibson’s movie – The Passion of the Christ. Because it was Friday, I prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Well, just the ONE – the first – decade where Jesus is in the Garden praying about submitting his human self to the will of God the Father.
My flight lasted – as usual – just an hour and 15 minutes. Even though I began praying the rosary as soon as my back end hit my seat and I had buckled up – I hadn’t even gotten CLOSE to finishing praying that first decade!
Needless to say, I REALLY got into praying that mystery.
Paid off. Not that praying for intentions during the rosary is wrong – it is not. We are SUPPOSED to focus on our intentions, too.
Yet – although that trip that I took was one that was already to be heavily laden with emotional and practical struggles – God’s will for me came through in the most beautiful way! I never, ever would have anticipated such graces.
The trip was a week long. The entire week was full of small and large graces.
God is GOOD!!!
The trip’s events, the interactions with people I had during that trip, and happy coincidences were VERY fruitful!
I went back - no longer uptight or anxious – but calm, refreshed, and “fed” in ways I would never have imagined.
Difficult to name or describe those graces that God granted to me during that trip. The fruit although more subtle than great – still was great and joyful.
P.S. I did use the rosary that I brought with me in the zipped pouch made for my rosary. I kept that pouch in my front jeans pocket. I was not show-offy about using the rosary. I kept it pretty much clenched in my left palm and moved the beads with my fingers on my right hand. I was not hiding it. Not at all. Just that it was most practical way to hold them because there was someone sitting in the seat next to me. My other side was the window. Which much of the time had the blinds down because the direction the Sun was shining was straight into my face. No biggie. It’s always easier for me to pray the rosary with my eyes closed, anyway.
P.P.S. Even if I did not have my rosary with me - I still have 10 fingers to use. Mom (the only Catholic parent we had) taught us to count our fingertips by tapping the pad on our thumb against the tip of the other fingers.
Tap both one thumb and then the other thumb for the Our Father and the Creed.
Tap the 3 middle fingers for the 3 Hail Marys at the beginning of the rosary.
At each decade, use the thumb to tap once really hard on the first finger to count the “1st” bead. And then for each of the other 9 beads, tap once gently on the subsequent 8 fingers for the last 8 beads of that decade.
At the end of the 5th decade, squeeze both hands into a fist to pray the “Hail, Holy Queen.”
Then for the Amen, open both of your fists into a flat palm and with a soft motion hinged by your wrist, shake out your hands in a loose “jazz hands” motion.
This means that I don’t ever have to have my rosary with me. It’s the little pamphlet listing the decades in whatever mystery that I might need to be reminded if it’s been too long since I last prayed the rosary.
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Veronica_Anne
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I hear you about being nervous around takeoff.I always bring mine as I alwas pray a rosary around lift off (I’m always nervous during takeoff
I’ve used this little “trick” to help me deal with the moments that the plane goes “wheels up” and does its steep, angled ascent.
As the plane is speeding up its final taxi while still on the ground, I pound my feet on the floor as if I’m running really fast. That regular, rhythmic pounding of one foot then the other when virtually running really fast makes a WHOLE lotta sense to my body.
Especially because my eyes are completely closed! I imagine myself preparing to make a long jump at the Olympics.
When the wheels DO go up, THEN I quickly pick up both of my feet – putting one foot in front of the other – holding it a moment and then moving my other foot in front of the first foot – still in the air above the plane’s floor.
In my mind, I’m making a slow-motion long-jump!
Holding my feet in the air as the plane is ascending tricks my mind into thinking that something perfectly NATURAL is going on. In my mind, I’m thinking that I’m making a long-jump at the Olympics.
I hold my feet in the air, though, only as long as my body naturally would do if I were jumping long-distance.
Then my feet naturally come down back on the ground. Well, the plane’s floor.
This works EVERY time! Now that the plane is on an even-keel, I’m okay.
It was the taking off – wheels up – then steep angled ascent – that freak out my subconscious.
However, if I’ve got my eyes closed, and literally physically mimicking running really fast with long, long strides and then lifting both feet simultaneously in a mighty, mighty long jump – I’m okay.
Go figger. I’m not athletic at all. I walk. I play volleyball. Used to play tennis and racquet ball.
No running or jumping. Unless I’m in a seat on a plane during takeoff!
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