How often do you pray the rosary?

[Brigid]

I only became a Catholic a little over a year ago, but I pray the rosary nearly every day. I love to use the Irish connemara rosary I ordered online last year. :)

[47of74]

1. Every once in a while

I'll pray the rosary, using the rosary I got from my grandma, which has my name inscribed in the beads. It has a calming effect and helps me focus my mind.

When I was growing up, Dad thought that it'd be a good idea for us to pray the rosary every night during Lent on our knees. This went on for several years. All three of us kids got to despising that after a while and it caused a lot of conflict - I don't want to speak ill of Dad but he was just a bit obsessive about the whole thing. Eventually they quit because it was just too hard to keep it up - the three of us began to have lives outside the house and mom had gone back to work and neither of my parents thought it was worth the trouble it caused.

I wouldn't want to do it as an organized activity with my family, but doing it by myself in my own time and a place of my choosing is different.

[hedgehog]

2. I think your post is the kick I need to start doing so.

I'm always amused at the popular respect given any form of meditation other than the Rosary. I think most cradle Catholics were never properly introduced. It is a prayer that allows for private contemplation and community prayer depending on the circumstances.

[Brigid]

3. And to think i hesitated at first.

I find it very comforting, with all the stress in my life right now. I even like to pray with the nuns on EWTN in the evening from time to time. I found a very sturdy connemara marble rosary online. I had found others that were quite expensive, but really more works of art than prayer tools. This more utilitarian one suits me much better. :)

[Nadege116]

6. I agree that it is comforting

I wish I said the rosary every day as I've been intending to, but so far it's been a couple of times a week for me.

[Matilda]

4. Not very often, I must admit.

Most likely during Lenten meditations at the church.

But I always carry a rosary with me; even if I'm going off to the theatre, I always carry one in my purse, because
you just never know when it might really be needed.

[Gman]

5. Not as often as I should

The Rosary is a very powerful prayer. Just an anecdote here, but some 20 or so years ago my son was in the hospital with a very serious concussion. He had fallen and had been in a coma for 4 days. My mom and other relatives and friends were praying the rosary constantly for him. Right at 5 pm, my mom was in his room in the ICU and another friend was just getting off work and had gotten in her car around 5:05. The friend started praying the rosary again once the she was in her car. My mom said it was right at 5:05 when my son woke up and asked my mom where he was. Is there a connection? Can't say for sure. I think the rosary is just as plausible an explanation as anything else, especially with a head injury. But he's alive and, except for some very minor balance problems made a full recovery and is now 31 years old.

One more anecdote... A few years ago we desperately needed help in getting my wife transferred back home from her job out of town. I would work sometimes in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and there I made a serious of visits to the Basillica of Our Lady of San Juan Del Valle where I prayed the rosary asking for the help. I would look around at the incredibly poor people that came from not only South Texas but from Mexico and were all praying so fervently. I felt very guilty even asking when the people around me had so very little and had very hard lives compared to ours. Nevertheless, through an incredibly improbable series of events that unfolded over a few months,(people 3 and 4 degrees away unexpectedly retired and transferred creating an opening closer to home for her in the shuffle), she made it back home.

Yes, the rosary is a very powerful prayer.