Difficulty with the rosary

[Evangelium]

I don't think repraying decades reflects the standard advice on distractions, which is to gently come back to wherever we are in the prayer.  I think you are being scrupulous.  Distractions are almost inevitable.

[Machabeus]

ha! I do that too!, I repray Hail Marys, then after I’m done it feels like I completed a knotted rosary! Lol

[MacPasquale]

I don't think repraying decades reflects the standard advice on distractions, which is to gently come back to wherever we are in the prayer.  I think you are being scrupulous.  Distractions are almost inevitable.

I know it's usually advised to keep on trucking, but if I actually went through with this advice alot of my prayer life would consist in just holding Rosary beads for fifteen or so minutes.

If it was a half decade here and there it would be one thing, but I'll come close to wasting five decades at time.

[Evangelium]

The booklet Praying the Rosary Without Distractions arrived from the Rosary Center in the mail this afternoon.  I look forward to using it to focus my meditations on the mysteries when I pray the rosary.

I recommend it to those troubled by distractions during the rosary.

You can purchase it here.