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To: MayflowerMadam
“there are many accounts of Mary, whether appearing to people, or, God granting prayers after praying the Rosary, “

Demonic activity.

You're incorrect.

“sheer force of repetition”

Sort of a hilarious accusation when you consider “Say twenty Hail Marys”, or mumbo-jumbling while fondling plastic beads.

Not at all. Quoting the phrase "it is written" over and over does not prove Sola Scriptura...which is itself a man-made doctrine, around 1500 years after Christianity started; and which had not been promulgated by any branch of Christianity until the reformation.

And when one prays the rosary, one is supposed to be meditating on specific events in the lives of Christ and the Apostles.

As the closing prayer for the rosary comes out and says, "O God, whose only-begotten Son, by his life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant, we beseech you, that we who meditate upon these mysteries of the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen."

154 posted on 11/14/2022 5:02:36 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: grey_whiskers
Quoting the phrase "it is written" over and over does not prove Sola Scriptura...which is itself a man-made doctrine, around 1500 years after Christianity started; and which had not been promulgated by any branch of Christianity until the reformation.

I would not toss around the phrase "man-made" so lightly...


https://catholicism.org/rosary-history.html

155 posted on 11/14/2022 5:13:24 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: grey_whiskers
The origins of the rosary are "sketchy" at best. 

 

Tradition does hold that St. Dominic (d. 1221) devised the rosary as we know it. 

 

The History of the Rosary (catholiceducation.org)

156 posted on 11/14/2022 5:13:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: grey_whiskers
...one is supposed to be meditating on specific events in the lives of Christ and the Apostles.

Must be hard - meditating on one thing while speaking something else.

157 posted on 11/14/2022 5:15:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: grey_whiskers

“As the closing prayer for the rosary comes out and says,”

You’re making the assumption that the rosary prayer is Divinely inspired.
The rosary was invented by man. Using that as as apologetic for its own words is not logical.

I could make up any outlandish narrative. If someone questioned it, I could reply, “Well, as the closing sentence says...”. I’d be ridiculed.


168 posted on 11/14/2022 5:58:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: grey_whiskers

“when one prays the rosary, one is supposed to be meditating on specific events in the lives of Christ and the Apostles.”

I can do that without tchotchke.


170 posted on 11/14/2022 6:03:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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