rosary

[Linda_Marie]

What about saying the rosary along with a CD? I say it in my car as I’m driving.

I don’t feel that I am giving as much attention to saying it as I drive as I would at home on my knees, but I feel it’s better than not saying it at all. I don’t just listen, I recite the prayers.

Just wondering what others think.

I find the distraction of driving to be too much to give the mysteries their proper attention and I also find the meditations to be a distraction to my safe driving.

The rosary already requires you to do 2 things at once. For me, it was just too much of a stretch to add a third. I felt that I was not giving my best at either and my distraction on the road could prove fatal to myself or some other poor road user, so I stopped.

I like to use my Rosary CD’s at home.

I would really like to chant the entire rosary. I have the Our Father, the Creed, and the Glory Be but I need the rest and have no idea where to find them.

 

[HelenRose]

What about saying the rosary along with a CD? I say it in my car as I’m driving.

I don’t feel that I am giving as much attention to saying it as I drive as I would at home on my knees, but I feel it’s better than not saying it at all. I don’t just listen, I recite the prayers.

Just wondering what others think.

I also listen to the Rosary while I drive. I am not sure that it is real prayer but when I am upset or worried or in a hurry, just listening to the words flow over me makes the journey so much easier to travel.

It would be dangerous to give the Rosary full attention when driving: but for me, it helps me get through the day.

 

[Lhhs]

I find the distraction of driving to be too much to give the mysteries their proper attention and I also find the meditations to be a distraction to my safe driving.

I agree.
I could never understand how folks devote proper attention to the mysteries while driving, let alone meditate . . . while operating a motor vehicle

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Whenever anyone prays the rosary, it is real prayer, be it by yourself, with CD or on cassette, or by listening to the radio or tv. What makes it devotional is the fervor and intensity you have when you pray it. Granted, there are distractions in driving, that does not mean that this is not prayer. It is. It is a good way to travel.
Deacon Ed B

 

[CB_Catholic]

For me, the easiest way to learn the mysteries was to remember that they occur in sequence. For instance–The Joyful Mysteries–the first thing that happened was the Annunciation. Then after it was announced to her that she would bear Jesus, she packed up and went off to visit Elizabeth–the Visitation. The next thing that happened was that she gave birth to the Lord. Then, 40 days later she presented him at the Temple, then 12 years later she found him in the Temple. All of the Mysteries occur in this sequential fashion, so thinking about “what happened next” makes it much easier than trying to memorize them by rote. In a very short time you will have them memorized, and if you forget one, just think “what happened next?”

 

[NoPlaceLikeRome]

Granted, there are distractions in driving, that does not mean that this is not prayer. It is. It is a good way to travel.
Deacon Ed B

Hehe… I have fond memories of zipping around the streets of Rome with sisters who drove just as fast as everyone else while simultaneously clutching a Rosary to the steering wheel or praying the breviary. (I don’t know how they worked out the breviary… I guess whoever’s driving says as much as she remembers. Perhaps by then you know all of it.)

 

[MusherMaggie]

My mother taught me an easy way to remember the Glorious Mysteries: Up, Up, Down, Up and Around: Ressurection, Ascencion, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Assumption of the Blessed Mother, and the Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven. Hope this helps!