What do you think of the Rosary? Have you ever prayed the Rosary before? Post your favorite Rosary if you own one. I'll try to answer Rosary related questions if I can.

aint nobody got time for that

I think it's totem worship. Any use of physical objects for the purpose of religious meditation is totem worship, regardless of whether or not there is a belief that the item itself possesses supernatural qualities.

Why, thank you very much for coming up with a defamatory blanket label for a variety of items used in religious ceremonies that have little in common amongst themselves with regard to their meaning and usage.

It's not "totem" worship. It's simply a method of counting the prayers to be said, like a reminder. Jesus Himself used physical objects in His miracles as a way to inspire faith, like when He used mud and spit to cure blindness, or when He transformed water into wine.

Please look at the definition of totem worship I came up with again.

Ok, I mean you can believe that, but the Rosary is not a totem, nor does it constitute worship of such. All worship in Christianity, including Catholicism, is directed to God. It would be considered idolatry to worship that which was made by human hands.

>>14950541 (OP)

A powerful spiritual weapon, asking for intercession and contemplating the mystery of Jesus and His actions. I add the Jesus prayer with the Glory Be and Fatima prayer.

>>14950541 (OP)

Borderline mental illness considering God nor Jesus exist

The Jesus Prayer and the Centurion's Prayer are my favorites.

Catholicism is when you worship Mary and pray the Rosary. The more Rosaries you pray the more Catholic you are.

"Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it." "No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source."



https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2C.HTM

Catholicism is religion on a points system.

>54 prayers to Mary

>12 prayers to God

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They are all prayers directed to Jesus, or glorifying Jesus.

What even is the point of prayers? What does it do?

Prayer is an admittance of our entire dependence upon the goodness and mercy of God. It shows our relationship to Him, and it is by prayer that we nourish and grow our relationship to God. Prayer disposes the one who prays to receive the graces of God according to His will. Most importantly, it connects our will with God's will, so that our two wills become closer to one, and so that through us God's will may be done on earth as in heaven.



"Prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."



"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."
