The Easy Way(s) to Prayer the Rosary
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2024
- Do you pray the rosary? If you do, you might find it difficult at times, or experience dryness in prayer. It's important to persevere in this devotion-but how?
Fr. Mike has dealt with the same difficulties in prayer, and these are his top tips for keeping up with the holy rosary.
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I love this explanation Father! The rosary is such a comfort to me. In it I find rest for my soul. 🙏🙏🙏
I started praying the rosary every day for the last three years.
It doesn't make everything better, but it gives me peace.
I also use scriptural rosary to help me with praying the rosary.
If you are struggling I'd suggest Many Hail Mary's at a time on UA-cam. They pray it daily. There are others on UA-cam channels that offer them too.
Mother Mary pray for us!
Thank you!
God bless you Fr. Mike, and all of you at Ascension Presents!😊
Thank you Fr. Mike! You have changed my life through everything you have done
I couldn't figure out if I was supposed to be concentrating on the words or the Mysteries, but I thought I should be trying hard to do one of them. Which one?! It never occurred to me that resting/letting Mary's prayer carry me was an option.
Thanks, Father Mike!
Signed,
A beloved, Recovering Perfectionist
Thanks Father Mike…love the idea of just letting the rosary carry you….perfect…
Thank you Father
Thanks for this video. I've been watching a lot of you recently because you and Ascension Presents have been hitting concerns that I have been having recently as someone who is trying to go through RCIA but has daily concerns because I don't like going through things without knowing the "why's" beforehand. Control issues? Possibly. We have a wonderful priest in our parish, but I have yet to talk to him and rely on the class and YT videos by priests for answers. Please keep putting out great information and helping us in our journey.
I find it very comforting.
So so so good, simple and powerful. Thanks Fr. Mike!
Thank you.
I’m dedicated to the rosary everyday. It brings me total peace and I look forward to it every day and each day it makes me feel closer to our Mother Mary and our Father and I know they hear me and are taking care of everything!
Thank you so much for this video is so important for me to succeed on this prayer. 🌹
Thanks Father. God bless
Thank you Fr. MIKE
That's so true, the Rosary is a relief for our souls...as a old woman I have so much peace after praying the Rosary. God Bless You Father Mike!
Thank you Fr. Mike and Ascension Presents, I have returned to the church after 15 years. After I turned 27, I felt like everything was pointless and I stumbled upon Bible in a Year and it has been transformative.
❤
Thank you Father Mike!❤
Fr. Gali of St .Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Port Townsend Washington has generously offered to pray the Rosary in our homes each evening of the entire month of October ! Such a blessing!
Thank you Fr. Mike...I like to reflect on the mysteries while praying although I'm always crying with the sorrowful mysteries.
ty holy father
Thank you Fr Mike! I have 6 kids and I pray the rosary as my break of the day. You made me tear up when you said how awesome is it that your mother saw it as her break. Made me feel like I was doing something right. Praying to bring more people to the rosary for their break! God Bless you.
Praying the Rosary calms my soul, gives me joy and inner peace. So grateful! Blessings to you always Father!
Nice Father ! Helpful
Thank yoy
For the beautiful inspiring reflection of the Holy Rosary. Fr.Mike Thankyou. 🙏🙏🙏
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤️ AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤️ AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 THANK you lord Jesus 🙏 🙌 👏 💖 ❤️
My life has changed since I started praying the Rosary, JMJ God is good.
I came to know Christ in jail in 2013 by reading a book, "Overcoming spiritual blindness" by James P. Gills MD. The veil was taken off my eyes. Heaven came through for me in my finances too, getting $25,000 monthly. I can support God's work and give back to my community. God is absolutely more than enough!
Congratulations!! The scriptures clearly states there's going a transference of the riches of the heaven to the righteous.God keep blessings you
Hello how do you make such monthly ??
I'm a born Christian ✝️and sometimes I feel so down of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God.❤️
Big thanks to Elizabeth Marie Hawley🙌
It's a miracle and I would testify,
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😲🙆I'm a little surprised seeing Elizabeth Marie Hawley named here, and I didn't know she has been helpful to so many people too, this is amazing, I'm in my fifth trade with her, and it has been super
Amen 🙏 📿📿📿
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I really like Fr Mike (I am challenging here because I respect him and not because I think I'm better than him - I'm not) but think he should get out of the relative craziness of the USA for (if God wills but only if God wills it - He will either respond to this by making you feel good or bad about it) for a bit (but keep up his channel and build up his subscribers and obviously he can do fill-in priest work for priests on holiday / sick, something like that). For a year. And then come back - refreshed and with an even bigger perspective.
(Don't forget, Bishop Fulton Sheen and Bishop Barron both spent time in Europe, helping to give a bigger perspective in particular when it comes to evangelising).
1. Spend some time in Europe - beauty / culture. Absorbing the beauty and culture of Catholic Europe (how beauty affects our soul and such a powerful weapon in evangelisation). I mean I live 10 minutes walk from a beautiful medieval church (once Catholic) where Jane Austen worshipped. And 30 minutes from beautiful Salisbury Cathedral built by Catholics. And 45 minutes from Oxford built by Catholics and where CS Lewis and Tolkien lived (and which Waugh wrote about in Brideshead Revisited).
2. Spend some time in Europe - saints. Spend some time where some of the great saints lived (and be inspired by them and their particular approach to God and writings etc). Such as Assisi (St Francis), Avila (St Theresa of Avila), Liseux (St Therese), Rouen (St Joan of Arc) - the list is endless. And develop how St Francis saw the world. And St Theresa of Avila and St John of the Cross, St Philip Neri (on his great devotion to The Holy Spirit - and the vital need of this - and the need for humour and joy in Catholic life).
3. Spend some time in Europe - reading in general. Go to Poland and study St John Paul on Theology of the Body (sooo important in today's world where people are desperate to grow stronger in understanding what marriage is all about and how to achieve happiness in it). And part of this, is to study The Song of Songs (it was huge for St John Paul II - and for so many Catholic saints). For me, Kreeft's book on The Song of Songs is the best religious book I've ever read after the Bible and the Catholic Catechism. Also, spend some time on the need to understand the vital importance of psychology in Catholicism (the OT - and the new- is huge on psychology but the Church neglected this until modern times. Don't forget how psychology is huge in ancient Greek literature and which Carl Jung would have studied - and don't forget St Paul was a Greek scholar! So he too would have understood well the psychology - and poetic nature - of religion, not forgetting he was a Jewish scholar too and so would have appreciated well the psychology of the Old Testament - and of the New).
4. Spend some time in a developing Catholic country (In Africa or South America or Asia). Although you might be giving, the people of these countries also give back in terms of joy, simplicity of devotion, spontaneity, and so on. And also do a bit of adventurous travel for a bit too to experience a bit of Transfiguration-like travel. But integrate it with your mission overall in being away from the USA.
And then return to the USA after about a year (if God wills) ramping up even more the mission to evangelise. With more ammo (benign ammo) and energy and feeling more inspired than ever before.
For this year, I am given a one year work contract that has a 90min commute on the bus>train>bus. It’s allowed me to think ok, instead of UA-cam Netflix, I just rest in the rosary. Yes.
Rest. To rest in the “mundane” of the rosary. Just going back to a time of Jesus Christ is so powerful, I can testify to that ❤
Check the Living Rosary! You sign up and are assigned to pray a DECADE of the rosary every day for the rest of your life. There are 18 million people participating! That is a lot of Rosaries being said each day! I got 20 others in the church to sign up with me! I look forward to praying my decade each day as I ponder the others praying the other decades "with" me. (No, we don't meet together. No, we don't set a certain time to pray. God has no calendar, no clock. )
Great thoughts!
If you don't have a Rosary available, or do not know the prayer structure at the time, you can internally say 50 Our Fathers - 50 Hail Marys - 50 Hail Josephs and this is very pleasing to God and His Holy Family. He just loves attention from us. He's the same as a Father who wants so dearly to hear from His children, the same exactly. He is Our Father, our Creator. And He loves us beyond belief. Please speak to Him regularly, and prayer is the best way. He loves the Our Father.
I am so angry and upset that God has nothing to say to me, and if he has why do I have to work it out an decipher it. It's too much, I feel abandoned. empty and lost. How do I find God, why isn't he looking for me? HELP!!
Find him on the stillness. Pray the Rosary and let yourself quiet so you can hear His words..
Though I am unable to pray the Rosary everyday, whenever I can, I do follow it up with the Divine Mercy chaplet and St. Gertrude chaplet, I like to think of this combo as Mama Mary protecting and expediting the prayers for the living on earth and the prayers for the departed
I just prayed my rosary 🥰
Lord hear my prayers. I’m struggling providing for my children it’s been years now. I have faith I know you Jesus will get me through this I just have to keep faith. I have two beautiful boys both have special needs. I’m overwhelmed because they require so much from me every month is a struggle to not end up on the streets. Lord restore my faith. Please Lord continue to give me strength.
I am very sorry to hear. Please persevere with the rosary, even if you have to pray with UA-cam rosary prayer channels. My mother went through her struggles when we were young. I recall her praying every day and night, on her knees facing the alter. She prayed the rosary, the Angelus, etc. She carried her cross with grace and faith. She is no longer with us but through her prayers, we as a family overcame many hardships.
Yes everyday,this is very helpful thank you Father
should i be praying the rosary everyday or every other day?
The rosary is a Marian devotion and it’s not required to pray the rosary everyday or even at all but the Christian life is to have a rich prayer life. The rosary is a beautiful gift from heaven given by our lady to help us. You can certainly pray without the rosary. I love the rosary though and I pray one a day.
@jeanellecortez1422 thank you for clarifying. been learning as I go and doing the rosary at times everyday if I don't forget.
I pray every night before bed, my mind either gets distracted or I just drift off to sleep for a minute or two as my mind wanders. Got to get better at it
Hey thank you very very much for sharing this video. I really appreciate this. Your great 👍 👌
I know how to pray the rosary, I just don’t want to. I find it hard to go through it when I have no sense that what I’m saying is being heard.
But you ARE being heard. ❤
Prayers are always heard. God hears everything, even if there doesn’t seem to be a response from Him. I think it’s all about perseverance in prayer
I love your honesty. I will pray one for you, that you will "break through" to the heart of prayer. I deeply hope it comes to you. Honesty is a very good ground for new seeds. Honesty isn't the same as skepticism, but I don't get the sense you are a skeptic. Let's see what happens. :)
@@popnoodlez so it must be too much to hope for a sign to be sent that shows me my prayers are heard?
@@rainastor4789 to be completely honest I am a little skeptical that my prayers are heard.
Spend a moment on the Rosary prayer to refocus the reason for the rosary. Sometimes the vocal prayer and meditation may not be concurrent and that’s ok.
You will be a good actor.
What about praying the Liturgy of the Hours if the Rosary is a struggle at some point? Catholics don't have to pray the Rosary, although it is wonderful, just pray.
After a while, the rosary will not be a struggle. It will come like second nature and there’s many graces that come from the rosary there’s 15 promises of the blessed mother given to you, and you are guaranteed to go to. I know my teacher in religious education.
After a while, the rosary will not be a struggle. It will come like second nature and there’s many graces that come from the rosary there’s 15 promises of the blessed mother given to you, and you are guaranteed to go to. I know my teacher in religious education.
To go to heaven
You are guaranteed to go to heaven Saint Michael will lead you there
@@anneendrey That's a sin and heresy to say that - the heresy of presumption of salvation.
@@anneendrey - No lay Catholic is obliged to pray either the Rosary or the Liturgy of the Hours. No amount of Rosaries or Liturgy of the Hours guarantees anyone Heaven. We can have reasonable hope in our salvation but we don't know until we get there.
I pray the rosary while cooking and clining the kitchen, sometimes driving and the last one sitting in my little prayer room. The rosary brought me closer to Jesus!
Love the haircut Father Mike
I love to “prayer” the rosary!
Thank you, Fr. Mike! I like to concentrate on what the decade is about & sometimes when my mind wanders off too much, I repeat that decade.
It’s OK if you’re mind wanders you’re human God understands just continue
I feel like there is one mystery in each set that i have no idea what to do with. Third luminous, second and fourth joyful, and to a lesser extent third glorious.
Bishop Brandon has videos where he prays the rosary, talks about the mystery and guides for what to focus or ponder during it. Might help. I listen to them every night.
@@timewarriorsaga I've read books listened to podcasts etc. Those mysteries are just hard for me to do much with. Presentation? How am I supposed to meditate on a circumcision? I've never really gotten that one. The proclamation of the kingdom of God? That's easily two thirds of all three gospels. Where do I start.
My daughter ask me to pray her the rosary at bedtime to sleep but she also is so distracted. Alone I can focus but with ppl it’s more difficult. I prefer to slowly contemplate at my own pace. I feel worst when it’s not that peace
Its funny to find this because today I decided to give up for a day and .since Im obviously feeling terrible, I talked to a local random priest I don't know and never met. (He was gracious about it and good to talk to by phone)
He recommended to pray a decade and take a break and pick it up again later.
Thats because Im in a bad situation and tired. I decided to try it
These are good suggestions too, thank you
Thank you, Fr Mike. I join a couple of others at my church to say the rosary out loud after mass on weds. We've been trying to attract others to our group, but no one wants to take the time to say the rosary after mass. I believe it was Jesus who said "where two or more are praying in my name there I will be". Thank you for encouraging us. God Bless, Claire.
We do it before the Mass starts.
According to JPII, te luminous mysteries are a devotional and not an *official* part of the rosary.
🙏🩵🙏
Father Mike. Thank you for this. You are the reason I returned to the Catholic church. I am going to daily mass now, and I started the rosary about six months ago. It has been very stressful at some times because of my lack of focus issues I have had all my life. I am 63, and it is getting worse. Trying to focus on the mystery during the Hail Mary was causing me to forget the Hail Mary right in the middle of it. A lady at church gave me a how to pray the rosary card. I have to look at it, and it helps me focus. I have to have the prayers in front of me as I am unable to memorize them. I usually do it after I get home from church. I tried doing it in the church for a while, but there was too much distraction. Just so glad I am able to do it better now. God bless.❤
You are an inspiration. I'm sure your brave and honest words represent many of us. And I agree that Fr. Mike is an amazing evangelist.
Look up Kristins Crosses. They recite the rosary continuously throughout the day with words and demonstrations of what bead you should be on. It has helped me a lot.
@@MomHarper927 I looked that up, it's really beautiful!
Tip: Share prayer with one another, for what good is God’s grace received alone.
For where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - Matthew 18:20
Father can you please make a video praying the Joyful, Luminous and Glorious Rosaries? Thank you so much for creating and sharing wonderful content. God bless you and yes I pray for you and thank you for praying for us.
I pray even I drive or shower or washing dishes or laundry
How do you read the Biblical passages of the Rosary as you drive (and in the shower)?
So do I. Well, maybe not showering.
As always, thank you Fr. Mike and all at Ascension for all the gifts you share with all of us.
Literally just woke up and finished a rosary that I accidentally fell asleep in the middle of becuase I was lazy and laid down, the Holy Spirit knows I need to pay more attention and sit up when praying this.
I read once that there’s a folk tradition (i.e. not official Church teaching) that if we fall asleep during our Rosary, the angels finish it for us. ♥️
@@kelkabot That's do cool because when I woke up the physical rosary was back in its case, even though I fell asleep with it in my hand. (I call the case "The Football" like the thing the president has because prayer is the most powerful weapon, and I keep my rosary and prayer books in there.)
Sometimes I pray the Rosary like this: I think of a lesson in each mystery and meditate on what I need to learn or work on for myself. Or sometimes I take that theme and use it to pray for someone I know.
I Hail Thee Jesus Crucified for Granting me Life. And allowing me to know Your Holy Family too.
Viva Cristo Rey
Thank you Father for sharing your mom’s story with us! I will have to take more breaks and pray the Rosary. ❤❤
@@katralamo3804 yes ! I had 6 children and there never seemed to be any time ! Only a rare break was when I could soak in a tub and pray .
Thank you Father for sharing your mother's story . my mother told me that she prayed the Rosary every day and sometimes twice a day . She's passed away and I promised her that I'd pray it too though some days I forget ...or I am tired . it's not easy in this modern and stressful world ,though I try 😉 thanks for this video
Lastly, one of the main reasons why one should try hard to focus on proper prayer and devotion to God is the sheer JOY and BEAUTY and PEACE and ECSTASY and BLISS of it! (And even when you're suffering terribly, there is God's wonderful CONSOLATION and ENCOURAGEMENT and SUPPORT in general - as well as general sense of GUIDANCE and being EMPOWERED by God and sense of God trying to bring us HOME to Him, please God).
Anyway, even if people don't believe me for whatever reason, about the JOY of focusing on prayer and devotion to God etc, The Catholic Church supports 100% what I say (in terms of The Catholic Magisterium / Catechism). So it's not just about joy etc why we should focus clearly first and foremost on God but also because it is a moral requirement.
God bless us
This was beautifully expressed. I have found this to be true as well.
@@rainastor4789 At times in the past, I was terrified of focusing on God (even thinking about Him). This was a trick of the devil. Now TRYING to pray and focus on God isn' isn't just a duty for me, but an utter JOY (like star-gazing, having a chat with my best friend whilst travelling in some far-flung corner of the world, reading a great book by my favourite author, listening to Bach, sitting with my family by a warm fire telling jokes - whatever, I'm slightly idealising my life here ... But you get the picture. Prayer to God makes me feel SAFE, EXCITED, ALIVE, all WARM and COSY, INSPIRED, FEELING LIKE I'M ON AN ADVENTURE - as well as a HEROIC MISSION but with God inside me and with me on that journey! (Please God / thank God).
And as God is my witness I am certainly NOT trying to knock devotion to The Rosary and even more so NOT trying to knock devotion to Mary - but I am challenging things like over-focusing on Mary (including things like over-focus on apparition too - not just the Rosary).
God bless!
@@rainastor4789 Lastly, I really developed my prayer to God, I think, a lot, during Covid when I was 'stuck' in a house in London for a year on my own. Boy o boy was it BLISS! It was like God was taking me away from the craziness of the world for a year. I'd say my prayers in the morning and that I'd be on a wave of bliss for the rest of the day (although I would say formal prayers at other times of the day, too - not just in the morning). I'd go for a walk and God would light up a bee for me so that it looked like this incredibly-beautiful, and well-crafted jewel flying about - the houses around where I lived and the sky turned into a kind of Raphael-like painting. I'd feel a bit like in that Simon-and-Garfunkel song, 'Hey lamppost, what you knowing?' Little humorous / comic things kept happening. It was bliss. In all that time, I only watch 6 hours of TV (a series). TV just got in the way of what I was experiencing with God. I was really connecting with God who made our world like in The Canticle of the Sun. Just beautiful and joyful. So for me, it's not just a moral obligation to pray to God but a sheer JOY. And we MUST do formal prayer. But this then bleeds into all kinds of other devotions to God. 1. Just feeling his joyful presence and just enjoying being with Him like two friends enjoying being with each other even if they're not talking but in the same presence of. That kind of thing. 2. Not even praying but being aware of His presence and just being grateful to Him about. 3. Contemplating Him and why He created us and His plan for us. Etc.
@@edm-london1660 oh yes! I live a very monastic sort of life. In the last four years I have lost several loved ones and clutching close to God was born of sorrow but something so wonderful has come out of it. I live in remote mountains in Oregon where opening the curtains in the morning is an act of worship. Beauty heals. And I get to spend the day with God. I know most people don't have the luxury of that, so there is no pride in saying I get to do that. God gives us what our lives demand of us it seems. I pay the price for this luxury in a certain amount of poverty, but I would not trade! I never have to rush prayers. In my days I am held and beheld! The unfathomable deeps!
@@rainastor4789 Well written and inspiring - thanks!
JESUS CHRIST said:
John 6:44 KJV “No man can come to ME, except the FATHER which has sent ME draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of GOD. Every man therefore that has heard and has learned of the FATHER comes unto ME.
46 Not that any man has seen the FATHER except HE which is of GOD, HE has seen the FATHER.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believes on me has EVERLASTING LIFE.
Note: You have not come to CHRIST and you deny HIM if you don't believe that CHRIST died in your place shedding HIS real blood and giving HIS real body on a real cross in your place once for all and that all your sins are forgiven and that you now have everlasting life and will go to Heaven if you died right now.
Glory!!! After so much struggles i now own a new house with an influx of $115, 000 every month God has kept to his words, my family is happy again everything is finally falling into place. God bless America.🙌🏻
Hello, how do you achieve such biweekly returns? As a single parent i haven't been able to get my own house due to financial struggles, but my faith in God remains strong.
I'm inspired.
Please spill some sugar about the biweekly stuff you mentioned
This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. 🙏 I receive this for my household
I raised 75k and Kate Elizabeth Becherer is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in dept then told me about her and how to change my life through her.Kate Elizabeth Becherer is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!
I started with a miserly $1500. The results have been mind blowing I must say TBH
Our Lady of Heroldsbach, pray for us
St. Evodius of Antioch, pray for us
St. Lutgarde, pray for us
Jesus Christ may not have "taught the Rosary" but while you say it you are contemplating Jesus Christ's life from the very beginning until His death. In doing this you are honouring Him, His Holy Mother, His father and his Life and teachings.
Time isn’t an excuse for not praying the rosary. If I am busy, I do the apostles creed, the our father, 3 Hail Marys for faith, hope, and charity, then close with a glory be. If I have time for the whole thing, I do the whole thing.
My brain is always spinning with random thoughts. What helps me is watching yt videos of the Rosary with Sacred Scripture written or Sacred Art to focus on.
Jesus Christ never taught to pray the rosary. It's better to pray how Jesus taught.
Well, it does include Our Father(the Lord’s Prayer)
So you only pray the Lord's prayer? I'm not stuck on praying the rosary in particular, but it's almost all words from the gospels. Which ones in particular do you think unsuitable for prayer?
Then how about praying the Litgury of the Hours? As it is, however a rosary includes the Our Father 6 times and as many doxologies.
The blessed mother brought Jesus into the world
Yes, we do honor the blessed mother, but we worship Jesus
Do you love your mother and Jesus loves his mother and listens to his mother so we pray to the blessed mother she will intercede to her son
@@Dakotako Jesus Christ taught not to use vain repetitions as the heathen do. Read Mathew 6:7
1. Christ says the best way to pray is to pray the Lord's Prayer. So we need to be OBEDIENT to God here.
2. The Catholic Catechism goes into the Lord's Prayer in great detail but only a passing reference to the Rosary.
3. Prayer and devotion to God is a moral obligation. Praying the Rosary is not.
4. We were created by God - not by Mary
5. We were created for God - not for Mary
6. God is infinitely closer to us than Mary in the very technical sense of The Holy Spirit inside us (please God / thank God) from Baptism and sanctifying grace.
7. God is God. Mary is not. It is idolatry to over-focus on anyone or anything over God.
8. Devotion to God goes all the way back to Bible. Devotion to the Rosary was more-a-less a medieval introduction.
9. In Catholicism we need to focus on objective truth (i.e. in The Catholic Magisterium) as opposed to feelings (popular Catholic piety such as over-focusing on the Rosary).
10. The Our Father can be used for any situation / purpose. And can be said on the fly. It is of infinite depth.
11. There are countless beautiful prayers to God. Not just the Our Father. But also the need to pray to God informally.
12. That prayer to God isn't just about a formula of words. But should be leading up to a conversation. A two-way, loving dialogue.
13. Prayer should include a lot of listening - not just speaking.
14. We need to be careful of looking at too many Biblical passages at one go. Focus on quality over quantity.
15. The Rosary was initiated by priests and their needs. The needs of married people are different. They need to ensure the meet their basic prayer needs by making sure they focus clearly on God. And only the Rosary as an extra. Also, the priests partly initiated the Rosary to have a female figure in their lives. But a husband has that in his wife (and daughters).
16. Real beautiful feminine energy ultimately comes from God. God created Mary. Her beautiful feminine energy comes from God.
17. By focusing on God first and foremost as we should for infinite reasons, we can then allow God to shine a light on Mary for us. Mary doesn't shine a light on herself. God does. And so we see her beauty profoundly more when we focus on God.
18. Mary wants us to focus way more on God than her. So we need to be obedient to Mary too.
19. As people say we are in crisis so the greater need to devotion to God like the disciples (and Mary, first and foremost) at Pentecost.
20. There is so much abuse of devotion to Mary. I know after growing up in 'Catholic' Ireland in the 1970's / 1980's where Catholicism has now relatively collapsed. If people had focused on prayer and devotion to God first, Catholicism would be profoundly stronger in Ireland now.
21. Prayer to God is also about transforming us body, mind ands soul. Only God can affect our essence.
22. We were created to be spouses of God (please God). Not of Mary.
23. We are children of The Father ('Father' does not equal mother - as in Mary our mother - here). Also, God is ultimately our motherly (and fatherly) figure as in all motherly love ultimately comes from God).
24. Men get their masculine energy form God only. Women get their feminine energy, to a degree, from Mary but ultimately from God.
25. God shows us profoundly more what humility and love are. The humility and love of The Father to give us His Son. The humility and love of Christ on Earth. The Humility and love of The Holy Spirit to dwell inside us (please God / thank God). We have to return that humility and love by focusing on prayer and devotion to God. That God is Our Treasure. We want to focus on Him always not just out of duty or holy fear or even gratitude - vital as these all are - but above all, just out of the sheer joy and love of.
26. God says we are to: 'love God and neighbour.'
27. God created the universe and everything beautiful in it and remembering this is key such as in St Francis' of Assisi' Canticle of the Sun.
28. God is at the heart of the Catholic Sacraments which are at the heart of our faith
29. When St Theresa of Avila - perhaps greatest saint in last 1,000 years along with St Francis of Assisi - her mysticism was very much focused on God. Her ecstasy of the soul was about union with God.
30. God says He wants to know us (please God). This key to Catholicism (Mary knowing is an extra. But God knowing us is fundamental).
Mary pray for us
God bless us
The Rosary was designed for the laity, by Mary through the Dominicans. It's portable replacement for the Liturgy of the Hours, which is why it had five decades in it. I have a copy of the hinge hours, but it would have been a pricey book back in the day. The priests all have their prayers they are supposed to be saying and for them the Rosary should be extra.
That said, I do agree that Marion devotion can go overboard in modern Catholic culture. Mary is the sign post to Christ, but sometimes people get caught up at the how pretty the sign post is.
I am not sure how anyone can read the bible and be praying to Mary, seriously folks go back to the scriptures.
I copy out the entire Bible by hand in my prayers, it takes a lot of time each day, AND I pray the rosary. The assumption you are making that people who pray it just don't "know the scripture" is a huge assumption. Are you sure YOU are the one who is correct?. Tell me what your walk with God is like and what speaks to you? How do you pray? Are you so close to God that you can be certain other people are "doing it wrong?" When I pray the rosary I never consider myself praying TO Mary, but rather a sense of praying WITH Mary. We are both mothers. We both love her Son.
Most Protestants do not know Scriptures as well as they think they do. Job was ordered to pray on behalf of his friends, because God no longer was listening to their prayers. There are other spots too where we can find intercession. It's just Protestant pastors go looking for a few passages they take out of context and call it "case closed".
@@rainastor4789 Can you find me a verse that tells us to direct prayers to Mary? I have no problem with people praying to Jesus, there is no formula is there. I absolutely do not believe that Mary is listening and acting on your prayers.
@@atrifle8364 My problem is with Mary
@@elizabethhunter4525 - Show me the verse that says to ask other people to pray on your behalf. Mary has all the powers that God would grant her, including the ability to listen to our prayers.
Thank you