Author Topic: An aversion to the Rosary? (Read 4790 times)

Bruno · « **Reply #15 on:** July 09, 2011, 05:55:38 PM »

The Rosary is difficult to pray? Great! The harder it is the more Grace is available when you tough it through anyway.

Sometimes it helps to pretend you are leading The Rosary for those who are learning It. Meditate (for them) the various points of the decade. It will help you keep focused.

God Bless,

Bruno

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #16 on:** July 09, 2011, 10:49:53 PM »

Quote from: Daegus

For so long now, I've always had an aversion to praying the Rosary. I'm not sure why, but I feel this force pulling me away from the Rosary and yet I've been praying it almost every day for the last little while. Without the Rosary there's no way I would have even cared about the traditionalist movement. Without it, I'd probably still be despairing, given up all hope on God because I am too pathetic to even try to remove the shackles that I put on my own feet. There isn't a doubt in my mind that I'd be damned without the Rosary..

Yet... Why do I feel like not praying the Rosary? It seems as though because it is long and a bit repetitive, I get discouraged.. I don't know. Does anyone else experience this?

Oh yes, I experience it frequently. And yet, I've said the Rosary every day since June 2009 (with the exception of 2 days). The devil is trying to pull you away from saying it. As others have said, say it even if you don't feel like it. I also recommend wearing the Brown Scapular. By weaing it, Mary will protect you.

CathMomof7 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 10, 2011, 11:14:55 AM »

Our family Rosary time at our house is often very stressful for me. My husband sometimes falls asleep, our 5 y/o complains, somebody is always making faces at the dog, etc.

But we pray it anyway.

The times we have gone for several days without praying, it seems all sorts of things happen.

Personally, I believe the devil HATES the Rosary. He hates Our Beloved Mother in general.

It is sometimes very hard for us, but we do it anyway.

Just pray, pray and pray some more

Vladimir · « **Reply #18 on:** July 10, 2011, 11:37:50 AM »

Does it still count as "family rosary" if only 2 people pray it daily, but rest of family not?

How does one answer a question from someone who wants to be Catholic but wonders "Why not just pray to God instead"?

Pray the Rosary daily. All 15 decades if you can. Remember the 15 promises to people who faithfully pray the rosary daily:

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1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.

15.Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:47:01 PM »

Quote from: Vladimir

Does it still count as "family rosary" if only 2 people pray it daily, but rest of family not?

How does one answer a question from someone who wants to be Catholic but wonders "Why not just pray to God instead"?

To answer the first question, I would think so if everyone in the family who is Catholic prays it, or if everyone who is at home at the time prays it even if others are away and can't pray it with the rest of the family.

To answer the second question, this is how I answer it. I ask them if they ever ask a friend to pray to them. They'll say "sure". Then I say "But that's not as good as having someone in Heaven praying for you, right?". To which they reply "Well, no". Then I say "So how is praying to Mary and asking her to pray for us any different? She's in Heaven and is much closer to God than anyone on earth, so we are asking Her to intercede for us". When my mother and I used this as a response to my Protestant father, he said "Well, I guess when you put it that way it makes sense".

Hope that helps. Have a Blessed Sunday.