Should we pray the Rosary or Hail Mary?

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Should we pray the Rosary or Hail Mary? The Church states it is okay, but Jesus said otherwise…

“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
-Matthew 6:7

“But what about the Lord’s Prayer?” you might say?

Well… Jesus said right before he said the Lord’s Prayer, “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father…” Matthew 6:9
 
:rolleyes: Forgive my uncharitable disposition, but, the only thing more unbelievable than you posting this is me actually dignifying it with a reply.

catholic.com/library/Rosary.asp

ALSO! Stated elsewhere, it’s not repitition in & of itself, after all, Jesus prayed three times the same prayer in the Garden of Gethsemene.
 
Forgive him, he is merely a protestant come to save us ignorant Catholics. Perhaps when he gets burned for venturing such an ill-considered attempt, he will do a little research before stepping into the minefield.😃
 
Anyone who has prayed the Rosary knows, it is definitely not in vain 👍
 
If we could never repeat ourselves, we would soon run out of things to say.

It’s the “vain” part that’s bad, not the “repetition” part.

Everyone says to their parents, “Please pass the salt,” “Thank you for the lovely dinner,” “I love you,” and “Thanks for all the beautiful gifts” - does the fact that we repeat these things over and over, or that everyone says them, make them wrong? NO, of course not. It would only be wrong to repeat these formulae over and over if we didn’t really mean them.

It’s the same with the Rosary and other recited prayers - we say them because we mean them. If we don’t mean them, we shouldn’t say them - but if we mean them, then we should certainly repeat them often, just as we should repeat often to our loved ones the formula, “I love you.”
 
Seatuck said:
Who are you to judge anyone’s prayer vain?
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apart from Our Lord himself, of course. For anyone else to do so is totally presumptuous.

Surely ‘vain repetition’, rather like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder - the beholder in the case of prayer being the practitioner just as much as anyone. If people practice a prayer and find it both useful and meaningful, then you can be 99% sure it IS so.
 
jmcrae said:
It’s the same with the Rosary and other recited prayers - we say them because we mean them. If we don’t mean them, we shouldn’t say them - but if we mean them, then we should certainly repeat them often, just as we should repeat often to our loved ones the formula, “I love you.”
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My grandson is autistic and never spoke a word till he was almost 4. We relied on sign language for communication. I never thought I would hear the words…“I love you.” coming from him. He is now almost 7 and although his speech is still somewhat hard to understand…he says the words…“I love you so much.” and those words are easy to understand and he says them often and it is a joy to this grandmother’s ears. To me, the Rosary is as beautiful to our Holy Mother as my grandson’s words of love are to me.❤️

:heart:Blyss
 
big_guy144 said:
Should we pray the Rosary or Hail Mary? The Church states it is okay, but Jesus said otherwise…

“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
-Matthew 6:7

“But what about the Lord’s Prayer?” you might say?

Well… Jesus said right before he said the Lord’s Prayer, “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father…” Matthew 6:9
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So are you trying to say that the only prayer you say is “Our Father”? You don’t pray any other way? What about when you’re praying and in your prayer you keep saying the same words?

Praying the rosary is a form of prayer as is Our Father or other prayers, which by the way, “Our Father” is most importantly in the prayers of the rosary. It’s a meditation of the LORD’s life.
I don’t see anything wrong with praying the rosary.
I converted back in the 90s. I pray the rosary everyday.
Maybe you should do the same…but do it with an open heart and not in a criticizing manner.
 
Sorry big guy, but you do not know my heart and how I pray–therefore you’ve no right to judge what you believe is anyone’s “vain repetition”.

Have a nice day! 👍
 
BlyssfulDreamer said:
My grandson is autistic and never spoke a word till he was almost 4. We relied on sign language for communication. I never thought I would hear the words…“I love you.” coming from him. He is now almost 7 and although his speech is still somewhat hard to understand…he says the words…“I love you so much.” and those words are easy to understand and he says them often and it is a joy to this grandmother’s ears. To me, the Rosary is as beautiful to our Holy Mother as my grandson’s words of love are to me.❤️

:heart:Blyss
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That made me cry for the beauty of it… God bless you! ❤️
 
I’m not a fervent rosary pray-er…but the rosary was developed as the ‘poor man’s psalms’…back when education was scarce and bibles even scarcer.

So frankly, the rosary is not a ‘repitition’…each hail mary actually represents a psalm.
 
big_guy144 said:
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
-Matthew 6:7

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heathens do not pray the rosary, so obviously Jesus was not talking about the rosary in this passage, he was talking about whatever words they use.
 
big_guy144 said:
Should we pray the Rosary or Hail Mary? The Church states it is okay, but Jesus said otherwise…

“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
-Matthew 6:7

“But what about the Lord’s Prayer?” you might say?

Well… Jesus said right before he said the Lord’s Prayer, “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father…” Matthew 6:9
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scripturecatholic.com/vain_and_repetitious_prayer.html
 
Do you all realize that you are responding to a post that was made over two years ago?!:confused:
 
PhilotheaZ said:
Do you all realize that you are responding to a post that was made over two years ago?!:confused:
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I don’t think the date has anything to do with the answers given. It is not like it is about a subject that is “time sensitive”. For what it says…it could have been written yesterday.🙂

:heart:Blyss
 
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