Zone1 Everyone should pray the rosary... says the Virgin Mary (in so many words)

[Woodznutz]

Our physical bodies, but not our spirits--the essential person.

Our bodies return to the dust, our spirit to God who gave it, but are we conscious? "The dead know nothing", so says Ecclesiastes. Sleep is a metaphor for death, suggesting unconsciousness.

 

[Meriweather]

Our bodies return to the dust, our spirit to God who gave it, but are we conscious? "The dead know nothing", so says Ecclesiastes.

What are your thoughts on the Transfiguration?

 

[Woodznutz]

What are your thoughts on the Transfiguration?

An inspired vision for a special purpose.

 

[Meriweather]

An inspired vision for a special purpose.

You mean kind of like a video?

 

[Woodznutz]

You mean kind of like a video?

More like a hologram.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'm not Catholic.

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Well, then you are repeating what you are taught, as we all do.

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[Woodznutz]

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Well, then you are repeating what you are taught, as we all do.

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My take on prayer is that we should work hard to change things, asking God to bless our efforts.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

My take on prayer is that we should work hard to change things, asking God to bless our efforts.

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Asking God to bless our efforts is the best example of praying that I can think of.

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[luiza]

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Asking God to bless our efforts is the best example of praying that I can think of.

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Any idea why he has never once bothered to reply ?

Incidentally , his so called son is exactly the same .
An unequivocal story teller

He has never once kept an appointment , though the Cultists think he has a poor memory and is rushed off his feet by people wanting compensation for wasted time and money .

 

[Woodznutz]

Any idea why he has never once bothered to reply ?

Incidentally , his so called son is exactly the same .
An unequivocal story teller

He has never once kept an appointment , though the Cultists think he has a poor memory and is rushed off his feet by people wanting compensation for wasted time and money .

He has answered most of my prayers (sometimes the answer is 'no') and has kept most of his promises.

 

[rstrats]

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I average three to five full rosaries a day and a single decade here and there.

St. Padre Pio carried a rosary in his habit and was said to pray up to fifty rosaries a day.

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I wonder how many prayers are directed to Mary at the same time, at any given moment, around the world? I'd guess it's probably at least a few hundred. If so, how do you suppose she keeps them all separate so she can decide what to do with them?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I wonder how many prayers are directed to Mary at the same time, at any given moment, around the world? I'd guess it's probably at least a few hundred. If so, how do you suppose she keeps them all separate so she can decide what to do with them?

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She has good help.

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[forkintheroad7]

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She has good help.

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people certainly limit God and those who are in his presence in Heaven.

The liberals are always projecting. Since they are limited, they think everyone else is, including God!

sad

 

[rstrats]

people certainly limit God and those who are in his presence in Heaven.

So, you're saying that Mary has the ability to hear at least several hundred prayers at any given moment (and the moments never cease) and process each individual one, and determine how each one should be handled?

 

[kjw47]

in 1917 in Portugal, the virgin Mary appeared to 3 peasant children and at some point in her numerous appearances, told them to pray the rosary for sinners on their way to Hell, and to also offer up their sufferings for that cause.

Do we really think she was only talking to those 3 children?

She appeared to children because children listen. Children are teachable. Adults... not so much.

In any case, our world is in a shambles morally and every other kind of way because people do not pray the rosary.

Cast your anti-Catholic stones if you will, but I know about praying the rosary and most people here do not..

God requires= prayer from the heart--NOT written in advance prayer that's not from the heart.

 

[Meriweather]

So, you're saying that Mary has the ability to hear at least several hundred prayers at any given moment (and the moments never cease) and process each individual one, and determine how each one should be handled?

Prayers go through the Holy Spirit

 

[Zebra]

I am a lifelong Roman Catholic and I've never really "got" the Rosary. I do it on occasion, but repeating the same prayer fifty times makes no sense to me. Even other prayers should be said ONCE, with feeling and full appreciation. The more often you repeat something the less it means. That's just human nature.

repeating is a kind of meditation, as in Buddhism.

 

[Zebra]

God requires= prayer from the heart--NOT written in advance prayer

both can be ok

the one does not exclude the other

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I am a lifelong Roman Catholic and I've never really "got" the Rosary. I do it on occasion, but repeating the same prayer fifty times makes no sense to me. Even other prayers should be said ONCE, with feeling and full appreciation. The more often you repeat something the less it means. That's just human nature.

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What I found when I'm praying the Rosary in public, in a group of people, is that taking the cadence of the prayer and breathing in rhythmic unison as we pray, is deeply meditative.

The word "spirit" comes from the same root as the word "inspire", or to breathe.

Inspire.

Our priest frequently reminds us that, if we are in a state of grace, with no mortal sin on our souls, and have just taken the Holy Eucharist and prayed the Rosary in public, gives us a Plenary Indulgence. If we managed to get out of the church without sinning, and we died, we'd go straight to Heaven.

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[Zebra]

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I did notice something interesting yesterday, as we all prayed the Rosary before Mass. I became acutely aware of how we were all synching our breathing together as we prayed, and remembered how the Holy Spirit is often associated with a breath.

Something to be said about synching ones rhythms to those of a group of people. Women do it with their cycles, without even trying.

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in church it used to be this way .... men and women took turns in praying parts of the Hail Mary.
so there was a special choir contrast of high and low voices .... a special rhythm.