Question on formal prayers

[jesusmademe]

Praying is more like a meditation than actually just asking for a prayer? The Ave Maria when used in the rosary is not about prayer requests.
Formal prayers can be used more like hymns.
They are like a meditation and they teach us something new everytime we pray or sing it.
Is that how we should use formal prayers?

 

[HopkinsReb]

If I were to speak ask a person here on earth to pray for me I would not say eg “Pray for us, O beloved Priest. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ”.

Why not? What if you do, in fact, love that priest and want him to pray that you be made worthy of the promises of Christ? What exactly is wrong with this?

Just because we live in an informal time doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with formality.

 

[Todd_Easton]

What I really don’t understand why we say litanies. I mean, who would kneel in front of someone and repeat Pray for us 20 times?!?
We would probably only say it once.

In Psalm 136, the phrase “for his steadfast love endures for ever” is repeated 26 times.

 

[Shasta-Rose]

Well, we are to pray the Rosary, right? That’s considered a good thing. But nobody ever taught us the Rosary and said, Just say the Hail Mary one time and then knock it off. What’s wrong with repetition? I think it’s really more for us than for Mary.