Would not praying the rosary be a sin?

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I’ve made good resolutions to say 3 rosaries per day, 1 for each intention.

However, I have the bad habit of procrastinating these rosaries until it’s usually very late at night and so when it’s really late and I need sufficient sleep for the next day I usually say 3 Hail Marys in place of the rosary.

Would this be a sin?
 
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I’ve made good resolutions to say 3 rosaries per day, 1 for each intention.

However, I have the bad habit of procrastinating these rosaries until it’s usually very late at night and so when it’s really late and I need sufficient sleep for the next day I usually say 3 Hail Marys in place of the rosary.

Would this be a sin?
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Unless you were bound to it by ecclesiastical authority or law, omitting a Rosary will NEVER be a sin.
 
Since your promise seems like you bit off more than you can chew, I wouldnt worry if you cut back. You didnt realize how much you were offering for your state in life and circumstances. Pending on how much other prayer you have in one day, I would try one rosary per day.
 
Praying the Rosary is good, but it’s not a sin if you don’t pray it.

Some people have the attention span of a gnat, and they would have a hard time keeping focused on the Rosary.
 
ResoluteSheep said:
I’ve made good resolutions to say 3 rosaries per day, 1 for each intention.

However, I have the bad habit of procrastinating these rosaries until it’s usually very late at night and so when it’s really late and I need sufficient sleep for the next day I usually say 3 Hail Marys in place of the rosary.

Would this be a sin?
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Whenever we make resolutions we really can’t keep, we set ourselves up for failure. You tried to take on too much, and found it was too much, and now feel guilty that you can’t do it. Don’t do that to yourself.

Devotions are not meant to be challenges to our endurance. Rather, they are supposed to be aids to our spiritual growth. You set yourself too high a standard–that’s where you went wrong. Offer your intentions up as you go through your daily work instead of piling them up into one long attempt to pray many rosaries.

Talk to your priest about it. It sounds like you may suffer from scrupulosity.

God doesn’t want us to do lots of devotions, rather he wants us to be devoted to him by being holy and doing good in charity. Concentrate on making little tasks holy to God by offering them to him and by helping others as you are able to. That is what pleases Jesus and Mary more than promising to pray many rosaries, which you really can’t do.
 
Arizona_Fat_Gir said:
Praying the Rosary is good, but it’s not a sin if you don’t pray it.

Some people have the attention span of a gnat, and they would have a hard time keeping focused on the Rosary.
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Guilty! I actually used to dread saying the rosary. I prefer to try and get to daily mass (not every day but some days). I find it peaceful.
 
You know once I made an obligation like that (but for many more Rosarys than 3 per day) and I quickly found out that it was a lot harder than I originally thought. But after a while I started to pray one Rosary every night, now I’m praying 2-3 a day, sometimes I slip and only say one per day but I always get it in. I found that once I kept my commitment to pray one a day, two was really easy and sometimes even more.

Just start with one, and go from there…
 
One per day sounds like a more realistic goal, and if you manage to pray more, that would be extra.
 
I do a one a day five decade on my way to work. Usually do two decades about 4 AM, then three while driving in at 6. Very little traffic so its not a safety issue. Much better than the radio!
 
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Might my case be considered a sin of laziness, though?
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We are all subject to the temptation of sloth – which I define loosely as not developing a spiritual life including prayer, as we ought.

As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI stated in one of the volumes of his trilogy “Jesus of Nazareth”, we have a privilege and duty of praying for our daily needs.

I pray for my spiritual and material needs, but I must admit not doing it every day.

The LORD’s Prayer and the Hail Mary include references to praying for “us” and “our” need, which I interpret to mean the whole world.

Read up on sloth.
 
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