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There is the Living Rosary Association and The Rosary Confraternity one can join to get the spiritual benefits of Rosaries(and Rosary decades) of its members. Praying the Rosary in a group can help one persevere in it.

God Bless.

As a convert to Catholicism in 1993, it took me a little while to accustom myself to the rosary.  But I decided to finally take the plunge as my commitment for the New Millennium, to pray the rosary daily.  I have stumbled a handful of times, but counting the days since 01/01/2000, I’m closing in on my 5000th rosary soon.  I plan on trying to calculate the precise day, and celebrating it in a special way.

I (a man) often wake before dawn and can’t go back to sleep and torture myself with worries.  I now keep a rosary in reach and just do simple repetitions while thinking of others who lie awake in this big city:  the lonely, the terminally ill,those in prisons, the grieving and above all those who feel utterly abandoned by both man and God. I invariably fall asleep, rosary in hand part way through the five decades and if I wake again I go on and drift off again.  What sweet sleep it is instead of tossing about with worries, regrets and selfish fears.

You have hit on our main problem Dan, the average American can no longer stand silence. In the silence of the heart,is where we are most open to the promptings of our Lord.  With the incessant clamor of noise, God is the last thing teens and now subteens have time for.  And you can see it in their amoral preoccupations.  Technology is stealing the souls of our children and thus corroding the future of our very nation that is in its greatest danger ever of losing its religious heritage.  When I was working the distance from home to work was one rosary, and the trip home was easily one Chaplet of Mercy.  Can you imagine what would happen if wasted travel time were converted to prayer time?

A couple of months ago a priest suggested I recite the Rosary while driving to work (I don’t hold the Rosary itself, but only say the prayers). I was so use to the distraction of the radio (news, sports talk, political talk) that at first it seemed odd to recite the Rosary.

Now, it seems strange not to during my morning commute and the silence—compared to having the radio on—is a notable difference.  Yes, there is road noise, but the artificial sound filled by the radio is now gone.  And silence has been something I’ve been pondering for some years.  Modern man is seemingly in need of filling our surrounding with noise, but I have come to appreciate the silence of my morning drive, the silent parts of Mass, and just sitting outside in the backyard with no radio or music.

I look forward to reading this book for Men.Thank you for putting this book on the Website…...........

Add the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day as well it only takes another seven minutes. Join the World Apostolate of Fatima.  Let us see if we can have the peace promised there before its Centennial in 2017.

True words. As a frequently-disoriented lapsed catholic, I stumbled my way back into the Faith with Mary’s guidance and intercession. I started with a confirmation prayer card I found in my old room at home, literally reading each word.

In 2003, as a young infantry NCO, I snuck Mary along for the 20 km ruck marches and seven day sleep deprivation periods on my platoon 2IC course. She’s the one who taught me that old saw ‘offer it up’ - which has been tremendously profitable in my spiritual growth. Mary offered me intercession when I felt too lowly to approach our Lord (my actions only infrequently reaching my aim even today), and amplifying my pitiful attempts at prayer, showing me the tremendous grace available to those who only ask. Our Lord will not refuse His Mother, and She has ‘corrected my aim’  on many a prayer!

I have been waiting for a book written for men on the Rosary, and I will look forward to reading this book.