Now on those "vain repetitions".... this isn't part of Catholicism (at all, ever) but I have a wacko neighbor up the road who's got the top of the hill and she'll come out periodically and start pacing back and forth on her porch preaching. She's got no audience but she's got a "natural amphitheater" where her voice projects over the whole neighborhood. It's like she has a radio station with no off button. And she'll go into what I've come to learn is called "speaking in tongues", which is nonsense syllables of non-words in between real words.
I'm convinced it's a psychological tactic to keep any rational beings within earshot from getting a word in edgewise.
I'm convinced it's a psychological tactic to keep any rational beings within earshot from getting a word in edgewise.