Our school is imposing the rosary

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Contarini said:
The Rosary is a practice. Catholicism–and indeed any religion–is made up of practices. A Catholic school can be expected to instill the practices of the Catholic religion. I don’t see the problem here.

Extempore prayer is also a practice. It’s a fine practice–an evangelical one that I wish more Catholics would take up (and I’m happy that they are). But it isn’t higher or more spiritual than a traditional prayer like the Rosary.
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Priests were praying ex tempore for over 1500 years before Protestantism was a twinkle in Martin Luther’s eye.
 
I bless my mother and grandmother for having us pray the rosary daily as a family. I don’t pray it as often as I should but I have found the rosary an incredible source of strength and comfort in times of trouble. To not expose our children to the love and support of Mary, would be to do them a great disservice.
 
Origen52 said:
I bless my mother and grandmother for having us pray the rosary daily as a family. I don’t pray it as often as I should but I have found the rosary an incredible source of strength and comfort in times of trouble. To not expose our children to the love and support of Mary, would be to do them a great disservice.
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You have a fine grandmother and mother and I’m so very glad that your family taught you the rosary.

To be fair to the spirit of the thread, however, no one in this thread is suggesting to not expose the children to Mary. The argument seems to be that the parent should be able to guide their children according to their own Catholic devotion practices. They are after all devotional and 100% subject to personal preference.
 
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