Why is praying the Rosary important?

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Why is praying the rosary important?
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The rosary is prayer on rails. It not only gives a guy a format and a length. It not only gives you suggestions on what to think on while you’re at it. But it also gives you the assurance that you’re reaching Mary with this. That she’s praying with you. And I mean anytime you can get your mother to help you with something it’s more likely to get done. Especially when she’s talking to Dad on your behalf. I mean at least that’s been my experience.

Peace Alex.

-Trident
 
The Rosary has changed my life. Here are the promises attached to the Rosary:
(ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/15promise.htm)

I strongly suggest praying the Rosary with your parish, family, and friends. It is a great way to spread the faith and add an abundance of grace to your life. Saying the Rosary in vocal prayer is a great way to improve your prayer life 😃
 
Great analysis.

Outside of the Mass, the Rosary is the greatest prayer.
  1. It is the greatest because Our Lady has asked us to say it.
  2. It contains the fundamental prayers that Catholics use: Sign of the Cross, Apostles Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Hail Holy Queen and Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel.
  3. It give us the opportunity to meditate on the key events in the lives of Jesus and Mary.
    By doing so, we can meditate on their virtues and ask for some ourselves. We grow in holiness that way. Mediating on the Passion of our Lord and the Sorrows of Mary please them greatly and help us to avoid temptations and sin. We imitate their virtues.
  4. The Rosary is Scriptural. Most of the mysteries are found in the Holy Bible or are doctrines of the Catholic Church.
  5. Mary promised 15 favors to those who pray and propagate the Rosary. There are also 15 benefits attached to praying the Rosary.
  6. Anyone who honors Mother Mary, honors her Son.
  7. Every canonized Saint has had a deep devotion to Mary.
  8. Many hopeless battles won, many miracles gained, many conversions of hard-core stubborn people achieved through the Rosary. Do not underestimate it. Try it!!!
 
Hi!
The importance for you will be discovered as you pray it.
There may be some conformity in how it is prayed, the Mysteries are given days, the beads prayed in same manner. But there is not conformity in how the Holy Spirit moves each one of us, or speaks to us. this may be where you will receive an personal answer to your question.
There is, however, unity within the church…and many places to join others praying through media, if you are unable to pray at a parish.
I personally pray the Rosary as a response to what Mary has asked of us. And it deepens my prayer, moving from vocal to meditative.
The Rosary are prayers of petition to Our Father, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, to forgive us as we forgive others. To our Blessed Virgin Mother, to pray for us, to intercede in our requests held in our heart for others, or for our self.
I encourage you to read, or listen audio podcasts, to the Saints, There is a treasure of gifts, many write about the Rosary!
God be with us!
 
Many excellent books are written on this topic.

The Secret of the Rosary, St. Louis de Montfort, Tan Publishing
Website www.theholyrosary.org-Explains the benefits,promises and blessings by praying the Rosary.

My favorite Rosary promises are the ones about delivering souls from purgatory and reaching a high degree of merit in heaven. My favorite Rosary story is when the Christians were about to lose the Battle of Lepanto due to insufficient equipment, boats and soldiers.
but we won anyway because the whole town prayed the Rosary. To think we came that close to having practically the entire world becoming Muslim through force makes me grateful for the Rosary and Jesus and Mary’s intercession. The victory at Lepanto was a miracle indeed.
 
‘I am the mother of fair love… Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.’ (Ecclus. 24:24, 26)

“Nobody who perseveres in the Rosary will be damned, because she obtains for her servants the grace of true contrition for their sins…"
– A revelation to St. Dominic

“Pray the Rosary. Meditate on the mysteries. Listen to the Word of God spoken in them.”
– Our Lady of Cuapa (in Nicaragua), 1980

“There was once in Germany a certain criminal condemned to death; but he was obstinate and refused to make his confession, though a Jesuit father did his utmost to convert him. He entreated him, he wept, he cast himself at his feet; but seeing that all was in vain, he finally said: “Let us recite a Hail Mary.” No sooner had the criminal recited it than he began to cry bitterly, made his confession with much compunction, and wished to die clasping the image of Mary.”
  • St. Alphonsus
 
Well, aside from all the other responses, when I start praying the rosary daily, my nightmares go away. I said in another post, there is another term for it, they call it sleep paralysis, but I’m really not so sure about that. They feel far too real to me. Anyways, it is just as well, I’m not particularly keen on having encounters with those from the nether world. It has also defeated some of my sins.

Also, all of the Marian apparitions stressed praying the rosary. Our Lady never really asked for much else but that.
 
Many do find that the Rosary is an important part of their lives.

I think it should be remembered, though, that the Church does not say it is compulsory to say it.

It is a personal devotion, and we are not bound to believe in such things as Fifteen Promises.
 
I remember a priest saying that the Rosary can bring one to the heights of prayer when the mysteries are meditated on.

Use what you need to keep focus…a picture, or a scripture.

One should not fear distractions because when you are aware of them and bring yourself back to the meditation and prayer words you are choosing the Lord, and not dwelling on the distraction. Everyone battles this!
 
About a year and a half ago I had what you might call a psychotic breakdown, terror gipped my heart to the point of losing my appetite and not being able to sleep for weeks. For 30+ years, pretty much all of my adult life, I had been enslaved to porn and all manner of sexual immorality. At that time I started praying the rosary daily, my mind was racing like a computer on steroids and I needed something to focus on, it helped greatly. over time the fear subsided as well as my obsession w/lust…then I began skipping days, then I stopped praying it all together, then mass attendance became sporadic, then I stopped going all together and went back to an Evangelical church…then I fell!😦

Have become re-enslaved for the past three weeks, so all I know to do is go back to where I really fell from, where I thought I “had this thing beat” and go back to utter dependency on our Lord and our Lady…
 
Fragile said:
About a year and a half ago I had what you might call a psychotic breakdown, terror gipped my heart to the point of losing my appetite and not being able to sleep for weeks. For 30+ years, pretty much all of my adult life, I had been enslaved to porn and all manner of sexual immorality. At that time I started praying the rosary daily, my mind was racing like a computer on steroids and I needed something to focus on, it helped greatly. over time the fear subsided as well as my obsession w/lust…then I began skipping days, then I stopped praying it all together, then mass attendance became sporadic, then I stopped going all together and went back to an Evangelical church…then I fell!😦

Have become re-enslaved for the past three weeks, so all I know to do is go back to where I really fell from, where I thought I “had this thing beat” and go back to utter dependency on our Lord and our Lady…
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Fragile, (we all are fragile)

Thank you for sharing that.

I encourage you to go back to the Rosary and meditate on the Life of the Lord while holding our Lady’s hand. She is truly our Mother given to us at the foot of the cross by Jesus our Lord!
 
Fragile said:
About a year and a half ago I had what you might call a psychotic breakdown, terror gipped my heart to the point of losing my appetite and not being able to sleep for weeks. For 30+ years, pretty much all of my adult life, I had been enslaved to porn and all manner of sexual immorality. At that time I started praying the rosary daily, my mind was racing like a computer on steroids and I needed something to focus on, it helped greatly. over time the fear subsided as well as my obsession w/lust…then I began skipping days, then I stopped praying it all together, then mass attendance became sporadic, then I stopped going all together and went back to an Evangelical church…then I fell!😦

Have become re-enslaved for the past three weeks, so all I know to do is go back to where I really fell from, where I thought I “had this thing beat” and go back to utter dependency on our Lord and our Lady…
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Yeah. I know all about addictions. Though mine are substance based, it’s the same part of the brain involved. So I totally see myself in this too. So yeah. Without the rosary sustaining me in this I’m pretty much back at square one again. Thanks for being so honest here. Thanks for that because it underlines the power of this set of prayers better than any solid words of praise. It’s a more direct cause and effect. And it’s been my experience too.

Peace Fragile.

-Trident
 
It’s important not to underestimate the power of the rosary to help conquer any vices that you may have, I think. Unfortunately in years past, my faith was weak and confused as heck.
 
Thanks to all of you for your inspiring testimonies.
I have for a very long time, known about the power of the Rosary prayers. And yet, I am reluctant to do it. My mind wanders, I have trouble thinking of things to meditate upon.
Also the repetition of the prrayers can become monotonous.

What I did was mention this once to a retired missionary priest relative. He answered me, if you dont like praying the Rosay, all the more merit you will receive for praying it

In other words, God sees our efforts to please Him and generously rewards us for them

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I’ve been haunted by demons in my sleep for the past year, when I was strongly reconsidering the Church again. I was seeing stuff like she-devils standing by the side of my bed at night, trying to get into bed with me, trying to do stuff to me. Weird stuff like that.

It was only when I decided to re-devote myself to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the rosary, that those nightmares went away. There is indeed a spiritual world out there that most people are either unaware of, or they are aware of, but they don’t give it much thought, dismiss it for lack of evidence, or they would rather just do things their own way. The spiritual world is a world we were never meant to fully understand. As far as my experiences go, these people are playing with fire. Hellfire, to be precise. They have little clue what Satan really has in store for them. I’ve spent a few nights the past year or so sampling them. My guess is however, even after that said, that some people still won’t get just how powerful the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary really is.
 
The rosary prayers are good, but for someone like me with dyslexia and short attention issues, it’s just not feasible for me personally. I do the divine mercy chaplet and LOVE it. Perfect length and easy for me to remember.

Just my thoughts…
 
I pray the Rosary almost every day. I began at Lent 2015, I was baptized at Easter 2015, and I’ve kept up the habit.

There are many times where I don’t “feel like” praying the Rosary. But there has never been a single time once I’ve completed it that I am not glad I did it.

I have noticed a huge change in who I am as a person since I have begun praying the Rosary. I believe the Our Lady is helping me to turn away from my sins, to develop a more perfect contrition for my sins, and that I am the recipient of the Graces I need to continue to grow in my Faith, to love the Lord more, to increase in Charity and love of neighbor, to increase in humility (a particularly weak area of mine). The biggest area where I felt an near immediate assistance was in chastity. I’m also less selfish and try harder to do things for others.

I hope that I continue to pray the Rosary for the rest of my life- with all these changes in just 7 months, I believe Our Lady will only continue to draw me closer to Our Lord and to Heaven.
 
jaimeleglise said:
Thanks to all of you for your inspiring testimonies.
I have for a very long time, known about the power of the Rosary prayers. And yet, I am reluctant to do it. My mind wanders, I have trouble thinking of things to meditate upon.
Also the repetition of the prrayers can become monotonous.

What I did was mention this once to a retired missionary priest relative. He answered me, if you dont like praying the Rosay, all the more merit you will receive for praying it

In other words, God sees our efforts to please Him and generously rewards us for them

.
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I like what that priest said!

I remember hearing that if we are distracted 100 times during our prayer time, and each time you are aware of the distraction you come right back to the meditation, that means that in your prayer time you have chosen the Lord 100 times!

The point was well taken…we all have distractions, and it is with practice, over time, that they lessen.
But we should not let them stop us from prayer! That would be what the evil one wants.
 
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