Is the Rosary a contradiction of Matthew 6:7

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Not really worth looking into. It’s a non-issue anti-Catholics try to make into an issue. They say, “Why do you pray the Rosary. Don’t you know the Bible speaks against repetitious prayer?” False. The Bible speaks against “vain” repetition. Huge difference. Changes the landscape entirely. The rosary is replete with repetition but none of it is vain.
 
I agree DebCWiI, the Bible is our teacher:
What Jesus intends for his audience is for
them to not vainly repeat “prayers” which
does them no good. Even Buddhist monks
have chants which they repeat until they
enter into a meditative state of “higher
conscientiousness” but it does NOT lead
one closer to God. But the rosary leads
us to think of Christ and Mary(the four
Mysteries) and causes us to think of
“heavenly things” Col. 3:1-2
 
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ProudPapa1988 said:
It’s a non-issue anti-Catholics try to make into an issue. They say, “Why do you pray the Rosary. Don’t you know the Bible speaks against repetitious prayer?” False.
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They say this while they themselves often preach or listen to preaching that contains words like “Father God” and “Amen” occurring about 50 times each.
 
Father God, we thank you Lord, for gathering us all together here today to worship you Father. God, Father you are so good to us. We love you Father God for your many blessings. We ask you King and Lord to have mercy Father, on us, Father for we are so in need of your love and grace Lord God.

We ask this in Jesus name…Amen

Lol…what?
 
The rosary should be prayed with a good meditation on all the mysteries and it is nothing less than a sincere prayer to God. Going over and meditating on the pivotal events in Christ’s life is a good thing. I hope you reconsider.
 
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Or you can’t forget the words “In Jesus’s name”. That’s standard in non-orthodox praying.
 
If something is really worrying you, what does this repetition do? It can remove the thing you are most worried about from your mind - at least for a period of time.
 
Have you fallen for the anti-Catholic shibboleth of “repetitions”? Possibly. Yet, they know not their own bibles!
  1. Jesus taught us exactly one prayer. Are we supposed to offer it once and be done? Nonsense!
  2. The Psalms are prayers. Psalm 136 repeats the same phrase 26 times. Should we rip Psalm 136 out of our bibles? Ludicrous!
  3. The Lord Jesus, in the garden at Gethsemane, prayed to the Father three times using the same exact words. Since Jesus cannot sin; cannot be a hypocrite, what to make of this?
Simple. We are to avoid vain, showy, public displays of voluminous prayer intended to serve our pride. Pride produces vanity = “vain.”

Repeat all you want - just don’t be vain!
 
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I keep thinking about this objection being applied to the rosary. Yet no mention is ever made regarding the Jesus Prayer.
  1. Those who object to the rosary really do not know the power of the rosary as a weapon against Satan; or they are in fact being deceived by Satan in order to attack Catholics who diligently pray the rosary since the Enemy does know its power.
  2. They are unaware of the prayer commonly prayed within the Orthodox Church, and by many Catholics as well. The crowd tried to silence the blind man, yet he cried all the louder, “Jesus, Son of David have mercy on me, a sinner.”
In the temple, it is the plebeian, who continually prayed for God’s mercy and forgiveness who left justified while the publican who touted his many virtues was not.

Mary exemplified humility, a humility expressed in the Magificat where Mary prophesied that all generations would proclaim her blessed. It is Christ who gave Mary to us as Mother at the foot of the cross. Praying the rosary involves a profession of Faith, as well as the very prayer that Christ himself gave us. In order to meditate upon His life, we need to come into stillness made possible by which the Angel greeted Mary.
 
Rev Chapter 4 verse 8: "And the four beasts, each of them with six wings, were covered with eyes inside and out. Day and night they do not stop exclaiming: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.” If repetition is good enough for heaven, it is certainly good enough for here.
 
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Tom7 said:
I couldn’t shake this feeling that I was contradicting what Christ says about prayer in Matthew 6:7 about not saying the same thing over and over again,
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Christ was telling us not to indulge in meaningless repetition thinking that the longer the prayer the more God likes it.
Lengthy prayer in itself is not a bad thing: Christ prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane, and his disciples fell asleep each time. So it’s clear Christ didn’t just say a few words. Those were lengthy prayers.
 
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