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Q: Is it proper to add anything to the rosary while we are saying it out loud? There is now a phrase that one of the ladies in our parish has added at the end of each decade when we say our daily rosary. We say, \u201cJesus, save and protect the unborn.\u201d That is certainly a fine\/needed request, but I don\u2019t think we should add anything once we begin to say the rosary. It\u2019s always been the norm that we say our intentions before we start the rosary. I\u2019m thinking that someone else in the group might want to add another request and then the rosary gets changed and that doesn\u2019t seem right. We should be able to go anywhere and say the rosary and it should be our familiar rosary \u2013 not a lot of added requests in the middle of the rosary. What do you think? \u2013 B.<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0Flexibility has been a part of the rosary for centuries. Although the rosary is commonly identified with Saint Dominic (1170-1221), parts of it predated him, and other parts were added after his death.<\/p>\n

In practice, it is not uncommon for people to add prayers here or there. Part of the richness of the Church is how it takes on pious traditions that reflect the desires of a given people in a given age.<\/p>\n

The Church doesn’t prohibit these kinds of personal adaptations to the rosary. But nor does it advocate piling on the petitions.<\/p>\n

So, in any given situation it is a prudential decision about how to proceed.<\/p>\n

It’s good to keep the big picture in mind: It’s great that people are praying the rosary together. And that is reason enough for the devil to try to disrupt things and stir up disunity.<\/p>\n

Here you might ask yourself what would be the higher good: strict uniformity in the praying of the rosary, or the promotion of its communal recitation which could help even more souls?<\/p>\n

There could be a middle ground to aim for: communal recitation and at least relative uniformity. But you would want to be careful not to squash the Spirit for the sake of strict uniformity.<\/p>\n

For further reading you might want to look at Nos. 197-202 of the Directory<\/a> on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, which speaks of the ancient practice of inserting something into the Holy Mary, although it doesn\u2019t go into specifics.<\/p>\n

Also worth a look are Pope St. Paul VI\u2019s Marialis Cultus<\/a>, Nos. 42-55, and Pope St. John Paul II\u2019s Rosarium Virginis Mariae<\/a>, in which he presents the addition of the luminous mysteries.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Fatima asked that certain prayers be added to the rosary (after recitation of each mystery, in particular) and many people, out of Marian devotion, believe the rosary should be prayed no other way. But Marian apparitions, even approved ones, are considered private revelations and, therefore, not universally binding or obligatory.<\/p>\n

If the parishioners want to get on the same page in terms of how they recite the rosary, they could meditate on the texts above and then have a meeting to decide how they\u2019ll pray it.<\/p>\n

Meditating on the mysteries is at the heart of the rosary. If the prayer group is doing that, then it is basically praying the rosary well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith & Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145320"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=145320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}