Rosary Question

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Is it acceptable to begin a rosary in the morning, and finish it later in the day? Or is the proper way to wait until it all can be said at one time? Thanks 🙂
 
It is the best to finish the Rosary at one time. If you are interrupted during prayer, you can re-pick it up when you can.
 
SandiShop said:
Is it acceptable to begin a rosary in the morning, and finish it later in the day? Or is the proper way to wait until it all can be said at one time? Thanks 🙂
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The Rosary is a private devotion and you won’t get points deducted if you can’t finish it all at once. 🙂 When it comes to focusing on the prayers, I personally do much better when I can pray the rosary all in one sitting. However, if you are interrupted for any reason, or are just getting started and want to take baby steps, or are really so busy that you can’t set aside 15-20 quiet minutes for prayer and meditation, please do split up the prayer. It’s better to say the prayers in two sittings than not at all.

I would like to recommend a friend’s Etsy shop. She has beautiful and sturdy rosaries and also sells these rosary place markers, so if you can’t finish in one sitting, simply place the marker after the last bead you did and pick it up again later.

In our family we started saying the rosary one decade at a time. We’d do the opening prayers, the first decade, and the closing prayers. This helped ease our young children into the practice of praying the rosary daily. As they we able, we moved to two decades, then three, and so on until we did the whole thing in one sitting. I think that helped them get used to it, instead of hitting them with 20 minutes of sitting still.

God bless!
 
There’s nothing wrong with praying only a decade, or two or three, rather than the usual five in one sitting. I would feel weird about just putting it down mid-prayer and then continuing ostensibly the same Rosary hours later, but that’s just me.
 
I pray the Rosary each and every day and definitely not all at the same time. My first two decades I say with my first cup of coffee – then the 3rd decade I usually say at the computer with EWTN on – the 4th decade I say several times for various friends who need my prayers-- the last decade I say before I turn out the light at night.
I have a BEAUTIFUL rosary which I take everywhere with me – my granddaughter sent it to me several years ago and it is from Notre Dame de Paris – love it!!!
 
Our pastor takes a rosary with him in the confessional and prays it while he waits for people to come in. Sometimes he sits there by himself for quite a while…:o
 
mercyangel said:
Our pastor takes a rosary with him in the confessional and prays it while he waits for people to come in. Sometimes he sits there by himself for quite a while…:o
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That’s a really beautiful thing to me. Thanks for sharing! 👍
 
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