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An article that may help our converts who are struggling with praying the rosary: crisismagazine.com/2016/the-rosary-for-converts.
The central paragraph (scroll down to read online, but do read the first paragraphs that lead up to it:
And here arrives a key insight for my own prayer life, a way of understanding Mary that sends my Protestant ghost running: Mary is a corrective lens. Through her eyes, we can see Jesus better because she doesn’t have the cataracts of sin. She has the best view of the drama of the Gospel and possesses the clearest sight of it. Through this lens God focuses light. This is why Mary’s place is hard to see, why it is often a hidden place: to serve as this lens, it is fitting that she is translucent. As Hopkins has it, “Through her we may see him / Made sweeter, not made dim, / And her hand leaves his light / Sifted to suit our sight.”
The central paragraph (scroll down to read online, but do read the first paragraphs that lead up to it:
And here arrives a key insight for my own prayer life, a way of understanding Mary that sends my Protestant ghost running: Mary is a corrective lens. Through her eyes, we can see Jesus better because she doesn’t have the cataracts of sin. She has the best view of the drama of the Gospel and possesses the clearest sight of it. Through this lens God focuses light. This is why Mary’s place is hard to see, why it is often a hidden place: to serve as this lens, it is fitting that she is translucent. As Hopkins has it, “Through her we may see him / Made sweeter, not made dim, / And her hand leaves his light / Sifted to suit our sight.”