Rosary Question?

[Brant]

Hi everyone! Well I received my lovely handmade rosary today from Chrissy! She is a member on here! Words can not describe how lovely it is! It has a St. Benedict Crucifix, a St. Therese centerpiece medal, and it has Blue Mountain Jade beads for the Hail Marys and medium Purple Quartz for the Our Fathers! It is just lovely!

Anyway! Here are my questions. I have never had a rosary that had anything other than a crucifix and a centerpiece medal with Jesus and Mary on opposite sides. This is my first rosary with a St. Benedict Crucifix and a St. Therese center medal. Do the rosary prayers still go the same way with these changes? Especially the Hail Holy Queen? Also, would this rosary be good for a Novena to St. Therese or St. Benedict Novena (Do not know if there is one for him). Also, I have two other rosaries at home that are blessed already, do I need to have this new one blessed as well? Thanks everyone!

 

[uxordepp]

The Rosary is a devotional prayer, and as such there are many ways in which they may be used.

It would be perfectly fine to use this rosary to pray a novena to one of the saints pictured on it, but you could also use it for another novena.

What you might do is to ask for the interecession of the pictured saints while you use this rosary.

And blessing it, or not, is up to you, but I would recommend it.

Remember that St. Benedict is a powerful intercessor for matters of spiritural warfare. This may be handy at some point.