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0 pointsundersuit3y ago0 comments

I grew up with a number of rosaries. I would have to bring them into my Catholic grade school and then we'd walk to the church on campus and spend the next hour reciting rote verses and trying to keep track of where I was on the rosary.

Wearing rosary beads sounds like a counter culture move against the church if you ask me. Rosaries are almost sacred.

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dragonwriter3y ago

> Wearing rosary beads sounds like a counter culture move against the church if you ask me.

Wearing a rosary around the neck is common and accepted in some Catholic cultures and frowned upon in others. There is no general Catholic religious objection to it, it is just a matter of local cultural practice. (Publicly flaunting it while engaging in scandalous behavior is more generally frowned upon, of course, as heaping hypocrisy on top of the already-bad behavior.)

Wearing a 15-decade rosary on the hip, in the same place a soldier would wear a sword, is traditional for the Dominican order.

undersuitOP3y ago

I'm not objecting to wearing them, my old biases object to them being worn as a fashion element. They are a tool, not a sign of your personal faith. The only people I ever saw with Rosaries every day were the Nuns who used them every day, even the priests would dress down on occasion.

mattpallissard3y ago

Not sure why you're getting the down votes. I attended a Catholic school and wearing a rosary was certainly frowned upon for the exact reason you state.

whateveracct3y ago

I bought a rosary when I visited Italy [1]. Never believed in God myself, but the memorabilia is sick.

[1] For a cousin-in-law's son's christening in an extremely old Church. Super cool.

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