Intercessory Prayer & Praying The Rosary

[peace2u2]

Do you think praying The Rosary has more power of defeating the devil than say if you just prayed a heartfelt prayer without any protection from the Blessed Virgin or say another great Saint like St. Pio?

I ask this because I find that I’m attacked by the devil more when I do not pray the Rosary or if I do not ask the help of one of God’s great Saints.

 

[Nimzovik]

Go to war with allies. Mary is a good one - yes?

 

[ChrisRedfield47]

Do you think praying The Rosary has more power of defeating the devil than say if you just prayed a heartfelt prayer without any protection from the Blessed Virgin or say another great Saint like St. Pio?

I ask this because I find that I’m attacked by the devil more when I do not pray the Rosary or if I do not ask the help of one of God’s great Saints.

I believe praying the rosary has more power than any other prayer to any other particular saint. But certainly other saints can help us with their intercession too.

Surely without any particular intercession, we are a lot more attacked.

 

[smndtupidisaftr]

What I like to do is after praying the rosary pray an intercessory prayer to St. Michael

ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/michael.htm

and then also pray St. Gertrude’s prayer for the souls in purgatory.

“Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.”

I think that way you get the intercession of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael. I don’t think the devil will be able to do anything against that duo. And a prayer for the souls in purgatory is always good to do.

 

[Steady_Eddy]

All those who burn in hell did not pray or did not pray enough. Prayer
is the first step towards God. And it is the decisive step. Especially
prayer to her who is the mother of Christ. Devotion to her rescues from
the devil numberless souls whom sin would infallibly give him.

St Teresa of Avila

Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in
hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who
practice black magic, and even if you are heretic as obstinate as a
devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life
and save your soul, if – and mark well what I say – if you say the
Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the
truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

St John Vianney

The Hail Mary, the Rosary, is the prayer and the infallible touchstone
by which I can tell those who are led by the Spirit of God from those
who are deceived by the devil. I have known souls who seemed to sour
like eagles to the heights by their sublime contemplation and yet were
pitifully led astray by the devil. I only found out how wrong they
were when I learned that they scorned the Hail Mary and the Rosary,
which they considered as being far beneath them. The Hail Mary is a
blessed dew that falls from heaven upon the souls of the predestinate.
It gives them a marvellous spiritual fertility so that they can grow in
all virtues. The more the garden of the soul is watered by this
prayer, the more enlightened in mind we become, the more zealous in
heart, the stronger against all our enemies. The Hail Mary is a sharp
and flaming shaft which, joined to the Word of God gives the preacher
the strength to pierce, move, and convert the most hardened hearts,
even if he has little or no natural gift for preaching.

St Louis de Montfort

2 Cor 13:13
Eddy Barry

 

[ChrisRedfield47]

All those who burn in hell did not pray or did not pray enough. Prayer
is the first step towards God. And it is the decisive step. Especially
prayer to her who is the mother of Christ. Devotion to her rescues from
the devil numberless souls whom sin would infallibly give him.

St Teresa of Avila

Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in
hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who
practice black magic, and even if you are heretic as obstinate as a
devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life
and save your soul, if – and mark well what I say – if you say the
Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the
truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

St John Vianney

The Hail Mary, the Rosary, is the prayer and the infallible touchstone
by which I can tell those who are led by the Spirit of God from those
who are deceived by the devil. I have known souls who seemed to sour
like eagles to the heights by their sublime contemplation and yet were
pitifully led astray by the devil. I only found out how wrong they
were when I learned that they scorned the Hail Mary and the Rosary,
which they considered as being far beneath them. The Hail Mary is a
blessed dew that falls from heaven upon the souls of the predestinate.
It gives them a marvellous spiritual fertility so that they can grow in
all virtues. The more the garden of the soul is watered by this
prayer, the more enlightened in mind we become, the more zealous in
heart, the stronger against all our enemies. The Hail Mary is a sharp
and flaming shaft which, joined to the Word of God gives the preacher
the strength to pierce, move, and convert the most hardened hearts,
even if he has little or no natural gift for preaching.

St Louis de Montfort

2 Cor 13:13
Eddy Barry

Nice quotes. I find St. John Vianney’s quote highly powerful.