Memorized prayers

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My apologies if this has already been addressed but can someone explain what His Holiness Pope Franciss meaning was when quoted saying we should avoid the ideology of reciting and repeating rote prayers and that we should pray as Christians,and please don’t tell me name the website,it was 2O13 and the media secular as well as religious media covered it,my question is sincere
 
If you go to the ewtn.com website and navigate to the document library, you will find a search window where you can enter the terms you want and do this search yourself.

In fact, this is the spot: ewtn.com/v/library/search.asp

If you just put in Pope Francis as the author, you will come up with everything that they have compiled on his talks. You might be able to narrow the search down by putting in ‘prayer’ as the topic

Please come back and tell us what you find.
 
I’m not familiar with that quote, but:

We are warned against meaningless repetition of prayer, but not all repetition is meaningless. Nor is the use of memorized formulas less worthy to be called prayer than improvised or spontaneous prayer.
The Holy Father may well have said something about not mistaking mere repetition for real prayer, and then been misquoted or misinterpreted. It happens.
 
All of this reminds me so much of my boyhood in Protestant fundamentalist sects. They were so bad that they refused to say the Our Father because it was written down! But their “sincere, from the heart” prayers all tended to be very familiar.
At the time they used “just” as a filler to give them more words to say.

Now days I use my own prayers, but more often use the Our Father, Hail Mary Glory Be. And the offices/hours.
 
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