Repetitive Rosary

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I just did the Rosary for the first time in a long time. This is the first time I have done the entire Rosary at once since I left atheism for Catholicism. The problem is that I didn’t feel anything. It started to seem repetitive towards the end. Why do you think this is? I have been going through a slight period of dryness lately. Could that be it? I was hoping praying the Rosary would help me during my spiritual dryness.
 
www.scripturalrosary.org. I have been praying the rosary daily,using this website.Check it out.It has been very helpful to me as there is a scripture verse read before each Hail Mary.it brings the rosary to life,makes it less monotonous.🙂
 
**Yes, I would say it is dryness. Remember, we are called, as soldiers of CHRIST to plough through it. We are tough, and we will not give in to the enemy and his tactics of discouragment and dryness. Our LORD is hardening You into a more efficient fighter. I know the feeling. Its painful even to think of GOD at times, let alone actually bring yourself to pray. It almost feels as if you have to use every ounce, fiber and muscle in your body to say 1 Hail Mary let alone an entire Rosary, but we are Soldiers of CHRIST and for CHRIST. You can do it brother!! 👍

My Brother, plough through this and as the Bible states 366 times (Once for each day of the year plus leap years) and as Bl. John Paul the 2nd said:

“BE NOT AFRAID!!”**
 
When you pray the rosary, you’re praying two different prayers at one time. You ask Mary to pray for you as you pray the hail mary’s with your lips, and you pray with your mind by bringing your thoughts twards God as you think about that decade’s mystery.

The hail mary’s are like saying “ooommm” when you meditate, but with actual meaning. That’s why it can seem a bit repetitive. You’re not actually suppose to think about saying the hail mary over and over again, you’re suppose to be meditating on the mysteries of the gospel.

Don’t worry about not “feeling” anything when you pray. When we pray and “feel” God, that’s a gift He gives us. When we pray and don’t feel God, but still pray anyways, that’s a gift we give Him.
 
Remember to meditate on the mysteries while saying the prayers. That helps a lot. When I came back to the church and started praying the rosary, I didn’t understand about the mysteries and I had the same reaction about repetitive prayers. Focus on the mysteries.
Jeanne_S said:
www.scripturalrosary.org. I have been praying the rosary daily,using this website.Check it out.It has been very helpful to me as there is a scripture verse read before each Hail Mary.it brings the rosary to life,makes it less monotonous.🙂
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I will second this. Do the rosary with the audio from Melissa. She has a great voice and the verses of scripture before each prayer helps to focus you on the mysteries.
 
Also, congrats on finding your way back home. That’s not something a lot of people can do.👍
 
YosefYosep said:
I just did the Rosary for the first time in a long time. This is the first time I have done the entire Rosary at once since I left atheism for Catholicism. The problem is that I didn’t feel anything. It started to seem repetitive towards the end. Why do you think this is? I have been going through a slight period of dryness lately. Could that be it? I was hoping praying the Rosary would help me during my spiritual dryness.
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Do it daily. It’s like any exercise. Doing it just once in a while I think limits its effectiveness on our spiritual life.
The rosary is a daily devotion. Devote yourself to it and it will indeed help you during your spiritual dryness.

And don’t focus on the repetition. Focus on the mysteries, meditating on those through each decade of the Rosary. This is the week of our Lords passion, so meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries every day between now and Easter can be particularly effective in combating spiritual dryness.

God bless.
 
Nigel7 said:
Do it daily. It’s like any exercise. Doing it just once in a while I think limits its effectiveness on our spiritual life.
The rosary is a daily devotion. Devote yourself to it and it will indeed help you during your spiritual dryness
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This is exactly what I have been doing. After some time it gets to a point where it does feel dry but then you need to think of the devotion that it shows to the Blessed Virgin who wants us to pray the rosary daily. You need to think of the 15 Promises of Mary for those who pray the rosary

ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/15promise.htm

And just think it is the meditation upon the life of Christ. For example, during Lent, I have been meditating every day upon the sorrowful mysteries and some days it can become unbearable because it is a constant rememberance of the sacrifice of Christ for my sins and the sins of all the world. These are the kind of spiritual feelings that you will eventually recognize based on a constant prayer of this devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
 
OP: do this a number of times and you’ll catch on. It’s taken me a while, but right now I find myself mentally imagining myself shoulder to shoulder with Mary, watching Jesus through the various mysteries.

A like the scriptural rosaries a ton. I used to interject things like “. . . baptized in the Jordan” (for the baptism mystery) in the middle of the Hail mary, just to keep focus on Jesus. Now I focus more on thinking through all the aspects of the mystery before me, to the extent that I can imagine the situation or know of it.
 
YosefYosep said:
I just did the Rosary for the first time in a long time. This is the first time I have done the entire Rosary at once since I left atheism for Catholicism. The problem is that I didn’t feel anything. It started to seem repetitive towards the end. Why do you think this is? I have been going through a slight period of dryness lately. Could that be it? I was hoping praying the Rosary would help me during my spiritual dryness.
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Don’t give up! 🙂

A wonderful read is “The Secret of the Rosary” by s. Louis de Montfort (don’t be discouraged by the title, it’s a masterpiece written around 1710 under the title “Le secret admirable du très Saint Rosaire, pour se convertir et se sauver”, and it’s a worthy reading for lay faithful as well as for priests and religious! 🙂

A personal testimony: it is through prayer of the Rosary that I returned to the Church. I’ve felt all kinds of emotions praying it, from nothing, to dryness, to sleepiness, to intense sorrow, to amazing peace and joy. Don’t focus on those, but on Him! 👍
 
Dear YosefYosep,
maybe I can help you. I am not catholic, therefore have no need for a roseary to pray. Sometimes when I pray to God, instead of following traditional prayers I just start talking to Him as if He were my very best friend. This has been very beneifcial to me as I can feel Him close to me in my heart, but when talking to Him like this I am very honest. Sometimes I talk to Him about my day or talk to Him about what I’m going through or what I’m having a problem with.
I am always respectful and keep in mind that it is not my problems I have to concentrate on, but Him. Sometimes I will just sing to Him, I always feel better when I do.

Hope this helps.
 
subject97 said:
When you pray the rosary, you’re praying two different prayers at one time. You ask Mary to pray for you as you pray the hail mary’s with your lips, and you pray with your mind by bringing your thoughts twards God as you think about that decade’s mystery.

The hail mary’s are like saying “ooommm” when you meditate, but with actual meaning. That’s why it can seem a bit repetitive. You’re not actually suppose to think about saying the hail mary over and over again, you’re suppose to be meditating on the mysteries of the gospel.

Don’t worry about not “feeling” anything when you pray. When we pray and “feel” God, that’s a gift He gives us. When we pray and don’t feel God, but still pray anyways, that’s a gift we give Him.
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👍👍
 
We have all felt like that at times. It is Satan trying to dissuade us from praying to Our Lord. In those times, fight through those feelings. We all have good days and bad days and Our Dear Lord knows this.

God bless you
 
You know what, I forgot to tell you that you are not doing anything wrong and just about everybody goes through that sometimes. Just give it some time, you’ll get there.
 
YosefYosep said:
I just did the Rosary for the first time in a long time. This is the first time I have done the entire Rosary at once since I left atheism for Catholicism. The problem is that I didn’t feel anything. It started to seem repetitive towards the end. Why do you think this is? I have been going through a slight period of dryness lately. Could that be it? I was hoping praying the Rosary would help me during my spiritual dryness.
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This is very normal for a person in a period of dryness, or who has been away from the Rosary for a long time. Just continue your discipline of prayer, and your feelings will follow in time.

You might also try some other forms of prayer such as the Liturgy of the Hours. You can download these so that you have the sense of praying with others.
 
The Rosary is used the same way the Eastern Orthodox use the Rosary saying the Jesus Prayer.

It’s not the Hail Mary’s that are the attention of our focus, but the mysteries which we meditate on, while in the presence of God.

In the beginning of our prayer life, we think about each mystery and often seeing the scene played out in our mind.

However, as we progress, this will cease and the Lord will begin to bring us deeper into the mystery, revealing the hidden truths within them.

As in anything that is worth while, it takes time and commitment.

Jim
 
For a prayer to be effective it does not mean that it must be emotional. If you are emotionally unmoved, that’s ok. It’s your intention and heart that Jesus looks at. If you do it in spite of how you feel, you are doing an even better job, for you are overcoming your emotions and putting the Lord ahead of you without thought for yourself. Congrats! you are doing it perfectly.

Just a thought.
 
When I pray the “Hail Mary”, I ask the Blessed Mother to pray with and for me. But I usually put my emphasis on blessing Mary and our Lord – “blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus”. Repeatedly bless Mary and Jesus always brings joy to my heart.
 
The Rosary has been rightly described as a powerful weapon or an effective tool.

You may have a favorite tool that gets the job done well, but I doubt you will ever feel particularly happy when you are using it. Of course you might feel ecstatic when you see the results of using that tool. 🙂

I doubt that a soldier has warm happy feelings when shooting a gun but he will be grateful if it saves his life.

Good feelings can happen sometimes when we pray the Rosary, but we can’t expect them every time.
 
The rosary is optional not obligatory. Does not help me so I do not pray it. I see no virtue in any one way of prayer. or in continuing when you are aware that it is of no benefit to you. It can become obsesssional
 
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