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So, here's the best advice I can give from personal experience.  I've long suspected that the point of the Holy Rosary, in its repetitiveness, which is held in great disdain by the Modernists, was to ANCHOR part of the mind on the repetitive "automatic" recitation of the words, so that once that part of the mind is anchored in, the other part of the mind is free to drift up to meditation and potentially even contemplation.  Even some of the Eastern religions employ this same technique.

Psychologists have done much study on how certain repetitive actions end up being just filed away in a certain part of the brain where you just start doing them without being consciously aware of them, and that's so the rest of your mind can be freed up to do other things.  Take, for example, a familiar commute in a car, say to work or school or to some place you're used to going.  You don't actually sit there and consciously think through it ... "Now, turn right up ahead, and then go a couple miles, and turn left at that light."  You just do it and do not need to engage your conscious mind, since your brain has tucked it away somewhere to free up your other faculties for other, more useful thinking.

So, the point of the Holy Rosary is PRIMARILY the medication.  Now, unlike with the Eastern religion, we fill the automatic part of the brain with actual Catholic thoughts, the words of the Hail Mary, whereas the danger with the Eastern forms of "non-thinking", where you empty out the mind with non-sensical chanting of sounds, is that various other non-Catholic things and even entities can find their way in there.  This kindof forces those things out.

That is why Our Lady asked specifically for 15 minutes of meditation on the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary for the Five First Saturdays, because she noticed that many people just rifled through Rosaries by saying the words, and it was not having the intended effect of encouraging them to meditate.

After all that, by far the most fruitful practice I have found for praying the Rosary is to actually pause between each decade and spend a good 5 miniutes, at least, possibly longer if you have the time, meditating upon the actual mystery of the decade to follow, and only THEN beginning the Our Father and the Haily Marys.  St. Therese at one point felt guilty about not liking the Holy Rosary, but she was referring to where they were reciting it together in common (which has different benefits, serving as a profession of faith), but she mentioned how she could spent a long time just thinking about each phrase in the Our Father.  In other words, she was already inclined toward meditation and contemplative prayer, and so just running through the words didn't do much for her.  But I'm sure if she were praying alone and could take her time, then it would have been magnificently fruitful for her.

That's one reason, for instance, that I cannot stand saying the Rosary while driving, since I get the feeling that the Rosary and my focus on driving are competing with one another for that same part of my automatic brain.

  Yesterday I went to a small thrift store. Browsing through the shelves there was a CD 2 pack entitled "Let's Pray the Rosary". I thought that would be great / practical for me to focus on my Rosary. So last night I wanted to hear this. But on leaflet there were three girls, staring at a Trad crucifix, so it looks genuine...however they are all wearing pants, jeans!!!more precisely, and sitting, a candle lit.  Uh Oh, this is modern. !!    Then listening to the First Sorrowful mystery, it was introduced by a woman's voice, probably a nun because there are 3 group photos, one of which are nuns. Thee, Thou, and Thy are replaced with You, You, your...After the second decade, she speaks again, praying for those who are wounded in their sɛҳuąƖity...and that Jesus would grant them true love??

  Of course they include the Luminous mysteries. They had nice music at the end. Then some type of sung prayer : Behold the Man. ends:"... Behold the Man, it's I, and you, and we, all set apart to offer the world."  ==Whatever that can mean??

Conclusion: Novus Ordo Faithful are taught garbage, and their intellects are confused. Those CDs made great frisbees, and they even curved left when I tossed them!

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Today is the First Class Feast of the Annunciation.

Happy Feast day! 
A few good words from St Augustine...excerpt from a Christmas sermon.


"... So let us believe in Jesus Christ our Lord, born of the Holy Spirit and the
virgin Mary. You see, the blessed Mary herself conceived by believing the one
whom she bore by believing. When she was promised a Son, you see, and
inquired how this might be, since she did not know a man, there was of course
only one way known to her of conceiving and giving birth, which she hadn't
indeed experienced herself, but had learned about in the natural way of things
from other women; namely that a person is born of a man and a woman. Well,
she received this answer from the angel: The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason the holy
one to be born of you will be called the Son of God. When the angel said this,
she was so full of faith that she conceived Christ in her mind before doing so in
her womb, and said, Behold the maidservant of the Lord; may it happen to me
according to thy word (Lk 1:34-38).

  "May there be,"she said, "one conceived in a virgin without the seed of man;
may He be born of the Holy Spirit and a woman untainted, He in whom the
Church may be born again untainted, of the Holy Spirit. Let the holy One that
will be born of a human mother without a human father be called the Son of
God; since it was necessary that the One who was marvelously born of God the
Father without any mother should become a son of man; and that as a tiny baby
He should when born come out of a closed womb in the same flesh, as that in
which as a grown man risen from the dead He would come in through closed
doors."9  These things are wonderful, because they are divine; they are beyond
our powers of expression, because they defy investigation; human lips falter in
explaining them, because so do human minds in examining them. Mary believed, and what she believed came about in her. Let us too believe, so that we too may benefit from what came about..."

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Our Lady of the Annunciation, pray for us.
St. Bernadette Soubirous, pray for us.