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theCardinalbird
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Where did it come from?
Is it a form of repitive prayer that Christ said to avoid?
Is it a form of repitive prayer that Christ said to avoid?
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Xanthippe_Voorhees
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“Vain repetition” is just that–vain. It has no weight or meaning.
The Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chapelet are both reflective repetition. To borrow a term from eastern religions and some neuroscience from secular culture, a “mantra” helps us to throw off our habitual thoughts, deepen and steady our breathing and help us to reflect more deeply on a certain topic. Well placed repetitive phrazes teamed up with a reflection actually stimulates neural pathways and helps to “clean” the brain of clutter.
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1ke
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Kei
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It can be said with rosary beads hence the 10 and one prayer pattern.
St Faustina, or more like Jesus inspired it I suppose it could be said.
St Faustina, or more like Jesus inspired it I suppose it could be said.
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OsculeturMeOsculo
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A rosary or any prayer can become a vain repetition if we are careless while we recite them. Pious meditations and focus give them their value.
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Genesis315
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Jesus actually teaches us to be repetitive and keep asking for what we need until we get it (see here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/18 ). I think mercy for sinners is a good thing to persistently ask for.
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Augustinian
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Sister Faustina was a Polish visionary whose visions are the basis of this devotion. She died in the 1930’s, and was a contemporary of Pope John Paul II and a resident of his home town of Krakow. I don’t think the two ever met, however, the future pope was just a teenager when she passed.
However, the Divine Mercy devotion was still there, although I think it was more of a local phenomenon in southern Poland, until it became widely known during John Paul II’s pontificate. I never heard of it until John Paul became pope, and I don’t think many had.
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