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Is it ok to use the Rosary to pray prayers that aren’t not in the ones that are typically prayed?(if that makes sense lol) I was thinking that using the Rosary for other prayers would help me to focus on the better and meditate on them.
 
Yes, I find when I have many prayers or want to say many prayers many times I use a rosary to help me keep track and continue praying a particular prayer on every bead. I don’t do it all the time but every now and then I feel moved to pray and different prayer and to pray it many times so I figure if I pray it on every bead of the rosary that is a good number of times. I always start off and end by making the sign of the cross and still kiss the cross too like I do when I say the rosary. Hope all that made sense! LOL! 😃
 
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Yes, I find when I have many prayers or want to say many prayers many times I use a rosary to help me keep track and continue praying a particular prayer on every bead. I don’t do it all the time but every now and then I feel moved to pray and different prayer and to pray it many times so I figure if I pray it on every bead of the rosary that is a good number of times. I always start off and end by making the sign of the cross and still kiss the cross too like I do when I say the rosary. Hope all that made sense! LOL! 😃
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Why a kiss?
 
I kiss the crucifix after saying my rosary as a sign of respect and reverence for Jesus. Not everyone does this. Just as we kiss the cross on Good Friday in veneration I also kiss my crucifix.
 
Dymphna777 said:
I kiss the crucifix after saying my rosary as a sign of respect and reverence for Jesus. Not everyone does this. Just as we kiss the cross on Good Friday in veneration I also kiss my crucifix.
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This year Good Friday and Easter are going to be so different than past years.
 
TwinMommy said:
This year Good Friday and Easter are going to be so different than past years.
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Well Good Friday in all the churches I have been in really doesn’t mean anything. Easter has been what seems like a day that Pastors have to preach something other than what they normally do and it isn’t done with the love it should be done with. The focus of Christ just isn’t there in the way it should be.
 
I like to start at home by making it more meaningful. Holy Thursday I go to mass to celebrate and to remember the first Mass…the Mass of the Last Supper. Then I stay afterwards to venerate Jesus in the tabernacle which helps to set the mood for the next day. Good Friday is a day of reflection and silence, of fasting and prayer for me. Easter of course is a joyful day. When I start at home then when I go to Mass it helps me to continue my day as I started it till the day ends. I find things particular for that specific day to do to make it meaningful. Sometimes it might not work out for one reason or another but then I offer it all up to Jesus.
 
Dymphna777 said:
I like to start at home by making it more meaningful. Holy Thursday I go to mass to celebrate and to remember the first Mass…the Mass of the Last Supper. Then I stay afterwards to venerate Jesus in the tabernacle which helps to set the mood for the next day. Good Friday is a day of reflection and silence, of fasting and prayer for me. Easter of course is a joyful day. When I start at home then when I go to Mass it helps me to continue my day as I started it till the day ends. I find things particular for that specific day to do to make it meaningful. Sometimes it might not work out for one reason or another but then I offer it all up to Jesus.
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I am hoping my MIL will want to go with me for Good Friday and Easter. I think those would be wonderful days for her to come back to the Church. Things do happen to work out or not for reasons that all work for good.
 
TwinMommy said:
Is it ok to use the Rosary to pray prayers that aren’t not in the ones that are typically prayed?(if that makes sense lol) I was thinking that using the Rosary for other prayers would help me to focus on the better and meditate on them.
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Yes.

Use them for other prayers as well by all means.
 
TwinMommy said:
Well Good Friday in all the churches I have been in really doesn’t mean anything. Easter has been what seems like a day that Pastors have to preach something other than what they normally do and it isn’t done with the love it should be done with. The focus of Christ just isn’t there in the way it should be.
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Come to St. Peter Church in Merchantville, NJ. We have a very holy Pastor whose focus is always Jesus through Mary. The church is always packed on Good Friday, we have a procession, pray the stations through town, and Easter is a joyful celebration, welcoming new Catholics every year through Baptism. I hope your local church comes home for Easter!

Patti
 
PattiC said:
Come to St. Peter Church in Merchantville, NJ. We have a very holy Pastor whose focus is always Jesus through Mary. The church is always packed on Good Friday, we have a procession, pray the stations through town, and Easter is a joyful celebration, welcoming new Catholics every year through Baptism. I hope your local church comes home for Easter!

Patti
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I pray the local church I find does too. It would be so helpful if I knew even one person who went to them, then I could find out a bit more. Visiting will the only way to tell. I am looking forward to that. For the next two Sundays I will be going to Mass at the church I went to last week. After that I will be in the area of the other two.
 
TwinMommy said:
Is it ok to use the Rosary to pray prayers that aren’t not in the ones that are typically prayed?(if that makes sense lol) I was thinking that using the Rosary for other prayers would help me to focus on the better and meditate on them.
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I don’t see why you couldn’t …but why use the Rosary beads to prayers that aren’t generally prayed when praying the Rosary? why not just pray whatever prayers you wish…A great old book ( I say ‘old’…because the book was published over 50 yrs ago) titled…The Splendor of the Rosary…mentions , when questioned…why the beads…answer…the beads are there for the prayers…and the prayers are there for the beads…sometimes when standing on line waiting for something…I pray the rosary in my head…PAX
 
awsiukiewicz said:
I don’t see why you couldn’t …but why use the Rosary beads to prayers that aren’t generally prayed when praying the Rosary? why not just pray whatever prayers you wish…A great old book ( I say ‘old’…because the book was published over 50 yrs ago) titled…The Splendor of the Rosary…mentions , when questioned…why the beads…answer…the beads are there for the prayers…and the prayers are there for the beads…sometimes when standing on line waiting for something…I pray the rosary in my head…PAX
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Oh I pray a lot through out the day as I go about my day. I have been finding that the Catholic prayers that all Catholics use are so much more effective, my mind doesn’t wander, I am focused and as that happens the prayers become a lot more meaningful. I have been praying the few prayers that I have memorized. I have a horrible memory and am very pleased that I am already without trying remembering prayers.
 
TwinMommy said:
Is it ok to use the Rosary to pray prayers that aren’t not in the ones that are typically prayed?(if that makes sense lol) I was thinking that using the Rosary for other prayers would help me to focus on the better and meditate on them.
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The rosary IS a meditative prayer … When I say the rosary it takes me to places in my life that need attention … I just go with it … So I’m feeling if you are directed to prayer(s) while saying the rosary it is ‘your’ direction …
 
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