IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO SAY THE ROSARY DURING MASS?

The rosary is a beautiful form of prayer, combining both vocal and meditative prayer. Many people have grown rich in the spiritual life by praying the rosary. The church's documents on the liturgy, however do not support the practice of reciting ( in a group  or privately ) the rosary during the celebration of the Eucharist.
The Constitution on the sacred liturgy (30) states, To promote active participation the people should be encouraged to take part by means of acclamations, response, psalms, antiphons, hymns, as well as by actions, gestures and bodily attitudes, and at the proper times a reverent silence should be observed.
 The instruction on music in the liturgy says:
 The faithful fulfil their liturgical role by making that full, conscious and active participation, which is demanded by the nature of the liturgy itself and which is by reason of baptism , the right duty of the christian people. The participation: a) should be above all internal, in the sense that by it the faithful join their mind to what they pronounce or hear, and cooperate with heavenly grace, and (b) must be, on the other hand, external also, that is such as to show the internal participation by gestures and bodily attitudes, by the acclamations, responses and singing.
 in other words the church expects us to take part as much as we can in the prayers and ceremonies of the mass. That is rather difficult to do while continuing to say the rosary or some other unrelated prayers.


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 ST. JEROME confessor, doctor of the church (c.341-420)
     
     
    Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus-the full form of the name Jerome-was born in Dalmatia (Yugoslavia), studied in Rome ,and then travelled for years in a passionate search for knowledge: first to Treves (where St.Athanasius had, some 30 years before, induced numerous men to follow the example of the Egyptian desert hermits, and the whole region was developing into a center of Christian asceticism) for theology .Thence to Antioch, where he studied Greek and holy scripture; but, being warned by our lord in a vision that he was "more of a ciernonian than a christian", he withdrew for five years in the desert, practised penance, and studied Hebrew.
    At the age of 39, in 380, he was ordained priest, spent a year i Constantinople imbibing the teaching of the great st.Gregroy Nazianzen, then went on to Rome, where he served the pope for five years as secretary, revised the Bible, opened a library, and guided a group of pious Roman women in the study of thee scriptures. Among the latter were st.Paula and her daughter St.Eusttochium, and when, after Pope St.Damasus death, the ease-loving Roman clergy whom the outspoken Jerome had bitterly criticized, caused him to leave the half pagan city in disgust, these holy women followed him to Bethlehem. Here, besides governing a monastery and a school, he completed his prolific and monumental writings, especially the translation of the bible. The books of wisdom, Ecclestasticus, Baruch and the Maccabees were left untouched by him in the "old Latin" version which Pope St.Damasus had prepared in 382; the New Testament also was merely revised. But the remaining books of the old Testament were newly translated by him directly from the Hebrew and Aramaic .This great task was completed in 404 after some 18 years of labour, and  it was this easily-read " vulgate" (meaning: commonly used) translation which the great council of Trent defined as the church's authoritative one. St. Jerome used to conduct his controversies with great fierceness, but readily acknowledged his shortcomings; to the very end, he submitted his body to severe fasts and vigils. Therein lay the very basis of his sainthood.
    "The reading of holy scripture should follow upon prayer, and prayer in turn should follow reading."  "ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ !" he would say.
    St.jerome died on 30 September 420. He is venerated as the patron of librarians.