The Power of the Rosary

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This may sound like a very odd question, but does the Rosary really have power when it is prayed? I still have yet to start my reciting of the Rosary, and I really dont know why. I think because of my lack of faith in the claims of praying the Rosary. I need some help in this area.
 
I hope so, my first one is on the way, and I am so looking forward to getting started!
 
The rosary is a powerful form of prayer, no question about it.

It is scriptural, from the word of God. The word of God has power to change.

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
 
t68ware said:
This may sound like a very odd question, but does the Rosary really have power when it is prayed? I still have yet to start my reciting of the Rosary, and I really dont know why. I think because of my lack of faith in the claims of praying the Rosary. I need some help in this area.
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Um, let me think about that for a minute… YES!!! It really does!
 
Pray the Most Holy Rosary for faith while praying the Most Holy Rosary. It will work
 
Praying is very powerfull to asking that Gods will be done, not ours.

Dont have to see a merical to believe, experience of Gods will alone makes believes out of all.
 
Yes, it is a very powerful prayer. It is my favorite prayer other than the Mass. You don’t really recite the rosary, you pray the rosary, even if you are unaware that you are doing so. It is also a wonderful '“teaching” prayer as most of the gospel events are found in the mysteries. You can go online and pray the rosary. Once you start , to .pray the rosary you will soon becomte accostumed to it and you won’t want to miss or skip it.
 
It’s the most powerful prayer, after the Mass. And our Lady’s favorite.

Or so I’ve heard. Pax Christi.
 
Yup. All prayer that is sincere and from the heart is powerful. But when sincere, heartfelt prayer is joined to the Word of God, in loving recitation and meditation on the life of Christ it is powerful beyond our imagining.:bigyikes:
 
t68ware said:
This may sound like a very odd question, but does the Rosary really have power when it is prayed? I still have yet to start my reciting of the Rosary, and I really dont know why. I think because of my lack of faith in the claims of praying the Rosary. I need some help in this area.
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It might help to start out thinking of the power of the process here. This is a prayerful devotion that you commit to: a certain number of prayers, repetitive in nature that allows engagement and at the same time meditation. (Once you get used to it) Daily praying of the Rosary, is like a commitment to weekly Mass, this is your time with God in a disciplined way, but with a heartfelt spirituality.

If the Marian nature of the prayers is an issue, you can say other prayers on your Rosary and this is equally powerful. You can say a Divine Mercy Chaplet, for instance, which I do more than a standard Marian Rosary which I’ve adapted for myself. (I added the Fatima prayer between decades - O my Jesus, forgive us our sins…) praydivinemercy.com/

You can, if you want, make up your own Rosary - maybe saying the Jesus prayer on the small beads (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.) The Our Father on the large beads, and a Glory Be between. The real power is in the commitment to prayer in daily devotion that is offerred up for love of Christ to be used for the benefit of all as God sees fit.

You can Google other chaplets you can pray on a Rosary. But having said all of that, the Marian Rosary is a wonderful prayer and I highly recommend learning and praying it daily and showing up early for any Mass where they pray the Rosary first and carrying your Rosary with you to take out at a moment’s notice when you find you need to pray.

It’s a good thing.
 
The rosary is what made me a practicing catholic. I was baptised but never raised in catholicism. I didn’t know ANYTHING about the catholic faith or what the rosary was when I started praying it. My friend kept on bugging me about praying it and sending me links about how powerful it was and how to pray it. I ignored the links for a few months until one day I gave in and looked at one or two links and thought the prayers were nice, but I didn’t have a rosary bead. A couple weeks later I found my baptism keepsakes with a rosary. At that moment I knew I had no excuse to not pray it and try it out. The next day it was the very first thing I did. It took me 50 minutes to read through the prayers and directions. By the time I was done I felt a peace like no other and a void had been filled within me. I had a thirst to learn more about catholicism and would spend hours researching about catholicsm on the internet. I did this for a week from Monday through Sunday, praying the rosary and researching catholicism. By Sunday I knew I wanted to sign up for RCIA. …And many of my prayers have been answered, some the second I finished praying it. In fact, my friend asked me to pray for her, so a day or two later I dedicated my rosary to her. A few hours after I had finished we were talking and she was telling me about her day and how well it was going. She even told me the time everything happened and I had to interrupt her to tell her I had prayed for that and finished my rosary at that exact time. And she said, “I told you the rosary is a powerful prayer.” 🙂 The rosary is awesome!
 
A concrete example. The Latin Mass Society in San Diego, CA., prayed a Rosary every Sunday before Mass that one day they would have a Church of their ow in which to attend the Extraordinary Form. They did this for over twenty years. They now have not only a Church, but an entire traditional style Parish. So, I would say, that yes, it can be very powerful.
 
t68ware said:
This may sound like a very odd question, but does the Rosary really have power when it is prayed? I still have yet to start my reciting of the Rosary, and I really dont know why. I think because of my lack of faith in the claims of praying the Rosary. I need some help in this area.
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Try it, and you will soon find out.

(But the answer is a resounding yes!)
 
The rosary has so many benefits. I believe the “powerful armor against Hell” is a powerful statement. I mean in all honesty we are all basically trying to NOT go to Hell right? Just google “rosary benefits” and there is a list of 15 confirmed rewards. BTW a nifty website is the
www.comepraytherosary.org

Check it out. I ve struggled with catholocism (Im a cradle catholic) and even atheism at times but I keep praying the rosary and somehow Im very optimistic (didnt start that way 😉 )
 
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