Expert: Tom Schott - 11/25/2008

Question
Hello,
I like praying the Rosary every day.  In the past I have been praying the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries according to their day.  Now I and some of my neighbors would like to start a “Rosary Block” where we could invite the entire neighborhood to pray the Rosary with us but we want to pray all the mysteries at one sitting instead of just one mystery according to the day since we will be meeting only once a week.  How would we do this? I have tried looking this up on the internet and only find how to pray them on certain days like I have been doing.  Any advice would be much appreciated.  

Thank You

Answer
Gloria,

I know of no way other than praying 20 decades of the rosary, unless you want to divide up the 50 Hail Marys into bite-sized pieces.

What I would do is pray one set of mysteries each week, regardless of the day called for; it would work out to saying all the the mysteries during each month. (On the months with five weeks, just stay in rotation. Every month will still cover all of the mysteries.)