Taking a break during the rosary

[billcu1]

I am praying the joyful mysteries today and have decided to take a break before announcing the 3rd joyful mystery. Should I just start off again with the annunciation or pray the apostle’s creed again and then start with the 3 mystery? Things are alittle noisy here and I want to continue later.

 

[Saints_Alive]

I am praying the joyful mysteries today and have decided to take a break before announcing the 3rd joyful mystery. Should I just start off again with the annunciation or pray the apostle’s creed again and then start with the 3 mystery? Things are alittle noisy here and I want to continue later.

Just start again.There are certain indulgences that require the Rosary be prayed in one sitting and so forth, but you can take a break.

I pray the Rosary while I work. I’m in and out of the shop on deliveries so I pray it on the road. I just make sure i have time to finish a decade before I start one. At home or in a church I pray the Rosary without a break.

 

[CruceSignati]

I am praying the joyful mysteries today and have decided to take a break before announcing the 3rd joyful mystery. Should I just start off again with the annunciation or pray the apostle’s creed again and then start with the 3 mystery? Things are alittle noisy here and I want to continue later.

I have been wondering this, too. I’ll subscribe to his thread and see where the conversation goes…

 

[lilelvispresley]

Just start again.There are certain indulgences that require the Rosary be prayed in one sitting and so forth, but you can take a break.

Please provide a link or a source for this. Thank you.

It is perfectly fine to pray the rosary in different sessions, like 10 in the morning, 10 at midday and finish off at night, something along those lines. There are situations that won’t allow us to pray the whole rosary in one sitting.

We can pray the rosary almost anytime and anywhere. The important thing is to pray with our heart, not with our lips.

 

[Saints_Alive]

Please provide a link or a source for this. Thank you.

It is perfectly fine to pray the rosary in different sessions, like 10 in the morning, 10 at midday and finish off at night, something along those lines. There are situations that won’t allow us to pray the whole rosary in one sitting.

We can pray the rosary almost anytime and anywhere. The important thing is to pray with our heart, not with our lips.

The Rosary Confraternity is one place to find the specifics.
rosary-center.org/nconobl.htm#ind

Just google “rosary indulgences”. You’ll find a ton of info.

 

[lilelvispresley]

The Rosary Confraternity is one place to find the specifics.
rosary-center.org/nconobl.htm#ind

Just google “rosary indulgences”. You’ll find a ton of info.

Thank you. I didnt know about the praying in one session bit.

Both a plenary and partial indulgence is available for praying the rosary. To gain a plenary indulgence the faithful must complete the following: Be in a state of grace (free from mortal sin)
Be free from attachment to venial sin.
Go to confession several days before or after praying the Rosary.
Receive Holy Communion on the day you pray the Rosary.
Say a prayer for the Pope.
Pray the rosary in a church or family group, or religious Community.
Pray the five decades during one session
Pray vocally, announcing the Mysteries of the Rosary and then meditating on them.

 

[gh4]

The rosary is a personal private devotion and can be prayed any way you like to pray it. One decade at a time, one decade a day, you can pray the suggested mysteries on the day suggested, or you can make up your own mysteries. You can start off with the usual prayers or you can add to them or take away from them, and same with the ending, you can do it the way you wish to do it.

Now, if you are praying in a church, or with a group of people, it’s different and I’d say mostly they do stick to the days suggested for the traditional 20 decades. But at home and privately it’s up to you how you do it.

I think for most indulgences the following is prescribed:

**For those who pray the Rosary, a plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions, when the Rosary is prayed in Church, or in a Public Oratory, in a family (family Rosary), Religious Community, or Pious Association. Otherwise a partial indulgence is granted. **

That above came from The Rosary Confraternity’s web site.

 

[sowinskija]

I know that there are many ways to pray the Rosary, but are you sure you can make up your own mysteries?

 

[paperwight66]

I know that there are many ways to pray the Rosary, but are you sure you can make up your own mysteries?

I’m puzzled by that too. I suppose it would work when saying it alone, as it is a private devotion, after all. Just use the beads as a way of counting.

 

[HillbillyHermit]

I know that there are many ways to pray the Rosary, but are you sure you can make up your own mysteries?

I don’t see why not, when praying it alone. When meeting an obligation/pledge to pray it (penance assigned by a priest, or as a member of a confraternity) …then the standard mysteries would be the way to go.
Lately I’ve done what I like to call a Lectio Rosary. That is, taking a section from the Gospels and praying a decade of the Rosary. Having a tenner is great for this, 'cause then you can just meditate on however many sections you feel like and have time for. Plus it’s a little easier to manage the beads depending on where you pray and the size of the Bible you use. As Blessed JP2 said in his letter on the Rosary: “To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ.” Who better than her to help us with all of the mysteries of Christ in the Gospels?!

 

[styrgwillidar]

Well, keep in mind the goal of prayer:

2559 "Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."2 But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or “out of the depths” of a humble and contrite heart?3 He who humbles himself will be exalted;4 humility is the foundation of prayer, Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to pray as we ought,"5 are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer. "Man is a beggar before God."6

2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

So, do what you believe is best, knowing yourself, in terms of raising your mind and heart to God with humility. I don’t think it matters how you handle the break if you keep the goal in mind vice format.

 

[ready]

If you are not trying to gain a plenary indulgence, then your Rosary may be broken up and prayed at different times in the day. When you return to pray your third mystery you may begin it with the words: The continuation of the holy Rosary: the third Joyful/Sorrowful/Glorious Mystery: the Nativity of Our Lord/the Crowning of Our Lord with Thorns/the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary.