Rosary while driving, doing dishes, other things?

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christofirst said:
No, no! I’m certain that no one is advocating distracted driving, certainly not me. While too many people do indeed multi-task while driving - texting, talking, applying make-up, and grooving with the radio - my way of praying the rosary while driving actually keeps me better focused on the road.

This is not a deep meditation by any means, and those who think there is but one way to correctly pray the rosary might think I am not praying at all. So be it.

When I consider the mysteries, I often attempt to apply them to my life, as well as the Biblical reference. For example, for today’s joyful mystery, the first being the annunciation, I might pray, “Holy Mother Mary, by your fiat you said yes to God. Pray for me that I too will say yes to what Jesus asks of me, to love my neighbor as myself, including and especially that fellow who just cut me off, and that lady following too closely behind me!”
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Every time I hear about “Mary’s Fiat” I picture her driving around in a little Italian car!😃
 
I’ve prayed the Rosary quite a few times while driving, sometimes by myself and sometimes with the family. A lot of those times, if we didn’t pray it then, we wouldn’t have time to get it in that day. I’ve also prayed it while waiting at the doctor’s office, on my lunch break and while hiking. The hiking is probably the best because I’m able to deeply meditate on the mysteries at the same time.
 
St_Francis said:
I have been having a hard time praying the Rosary lately except while driving. I think that doing something else automatically helps me focus–does that make sense? So I was wondering if people ever pray the Rosary while doing something like knitting?

To be honest, I’m a bit stressed out right now, what with this and that, so I don’t see it as a permanent thing, just something to help me through this particular time, but I’m also cery worried about “doing it wrong.”
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St. Francis, there’s a prayer which I think you would find beautiful and moving, and which would ease and release your stress as well. Saint John Cassian describes it poignantly in his book The Conferences. It’s simply Psalm 70:1: Come to my help, O God; Lord, hurry to my rescue. I encourage you try it, and I would love to encourage everyone else, too. It’s unceasing prayer, as Saint Paul advised. It’s like the Jesus Prayer or Prayer of the Heart, so beloved in Orthodox Christianity, but it’s much older. Have you read The Way of a Pilgrim? I’m certain you would fall madly in love with that book and it’s author! Truly, it’s wonderful and fast-paced reading! If you can, please obtain that book, and also The Conferences, by John Cassian. Conference number ten discusses this in a charming and direct and explicit way. Please believe me; you’ll fall madly in love with this book also. There’s nothing else like it - it’s purely joyful. Please take a chance on this my friend, you won’t be sorry!🙂

amazon.com/John-Cassian-Conferences-Ancient-Christian/dp/0809104849/

I strongly recommend the above translation above all others, but just so you get a feel for it:

books.google.com/books?id=Uxaow-3qnRQC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=cassian+%22turning+unceasingly+in+your+heart%22&source=bl&ots=EWXC54ok1J&sig=S1dASOwep_dC5Th2iPgq7MeDfYg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YPcNT_OOKcijiAKZvJGiDQ#v=onepage&q=cassian%20%22turning%20unceasingly%20in%20your%20heart%22&f=false

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cassian
 
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