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[Sarcelle]

I think of my daily rosary as the calm place of my day, when I sit close to God, figuratively speaking. It’s like spending quality time with God, amidst all the issues and worries and responsibilities that I have to deal with during the rest of the day. It’s like sitting in the calm eye of a hurricane that can sometimes be my life.

I pray the rosary at dusk, my favorite time of the day. I call it the blue hour, where the dome of night starts to appear and the stars alongside it.

 

[CRV]

I call it the blue hour, where the dome of night starts to appear and the stars alongside it.

Oh, how lovely! Very poetic way of describing that time of day. I sometimes will pray my rosary after my DM chaplet, or before going to bed, as by that time I have wound down from my day and hopefully can concentrate more.

 

[Sarcelle]

I tried doing that bedtime rosary but I end up falling asleep.

I sometimes have nightmares where I am in a dark place with something menacing in it. I have a rosary in my dreams and I have lucid dreams about praying the rosary to fend off the menace.

I wake up feeling like I fought a spiritual battle with the rosary as a weapon.

I often get those nightmares when I am physically and emotionally tired.

 

[CRV]

I have a rosary in my dreams and I have lucid dreams about praying the rosary to fend off the menace.

I wake up feeling like I fought a spiritual battle with the rosary as a weapon.

Perhaps this is your subconscious just expressing your spiritual battles. Or perhaps this is a inspiration to pray the rosary as a weapon in your spiritual warfare/battles.

 

[adgloriam]

like I fought a spiritual battle with the rosary as a weapon.

Last time I fought a battle like that for over 3 years with a daily rosary (sometimes 2), frequent mass and due confession…I LOST.

Haven’t been able to pray since, what I started to offer up afterwards was pure pain and sheer suffering.

(and I’ve never been able to say the words:“I offer it up for the conversion of sinners”…Because the entirety seems like no one’s fault but my own and I felt irredeemably guilt ridden. So, at one point, I took it easy on myself.)

 

[Sarcelle]

(and I’ve never been able to say the words:“I offer it up for the conversion of sinners”…Because the entirety seems like no one’s fault but my own and I felt irredeemably guilt ridden. So, at one point, I took it easy on myself.)

Same here.

I just offer it up. God can do whatever he wants to do with it, even the conversion of sinners.

I’m no pure and pious saint like Saint Therese who offered it up for the conversion of sinners. I’m a sinner myself.