If you are present in the Vatican City during an address by the Pope, he will sometimes bless rosaries and other religious items you have with you. However, the Pope does not do a "mass-blessing" of rosaries to be sold in stores or online.
A Rosary is a religious article, it is best used when blessed. but to give as a gift it does not have to be blessed. polite to tell the person you are giving that the gift is not blessed.
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The rosary is a manmade tribute to the Blessed Mother. Mary was a practicing Jew who didn't say the rosary.
It's just a matter of belief. Most people bless the Rosary before using it. There is no harm even if you use the Rosary without getting it blessed.
.Catholic AnswerThe Rosary is meditation on the events of the life of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. As such it will never be irrelevant. Our Blessed Lady has appeared numerous times, and always recommends the regular recitation of the rosary, saying that such is a great sign of predestination. Attached at the bottom is a link to the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II, of happy memory, which he issued on the Rosary in October of 2002. Also, there is a link to a related question which tells you how to pray the rosary and lists all the prayers in order.
In one way or another every mystery of the Rosary contains Our Blessed Lord.
pope john paul gave us the luminous mystery which is added to the rosary.
If the rosary has been blessed, the only acceptable things to do with it would be to either burn it or bury it.
Jesus never said pray the rosary. The Church has come up with the prayer of the rosary to the virgin Mary.Roman Catholic AnswerThe Rosary recalls important events in the life of Our Blessed Lord, He didn't say the Rosary, He lived it. Our Blessed Lord sent His Mother to earth to give us the form of the Rosary that we have today, she appeared to St. Dominic, who founded the Dominican Order, and gave him the Rosary in order to convert the heretics that he was preaching to. As the rosary is primarily mental prayer on the Mysteries (the events in the life of Our Blessed Lord, and His Mother) it is a wonderful way to learn basic prayer. You should learn it well, and stick with it your whole life.
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yes.but it must be something a christian wishes something to be blessed. for example, if he wants his rosary to be blessed, then he must let the priest bless it.
"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" - the novel by Lew Wallace - was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a pope.