I didn't say you said it was undesirable. However, you quoted that scripture IN RESPONSE TO a post about a part of the Catholic liturgy which involves some repetition of words. If you don't have a problem with the repetitive FORM of this Catholic liturgy, then what ARE you criticizing? Do you think Catholics are incapable of simulataneously repeating words in a prayer and yet meaning the words each time?
People have some remarkably strange views of what they think Catholics belive. Even some who claim to have been Catholic.
By Protestant standards, saying the Lord's Prayer as Christ commanded is repetitive prayer.
Does anyone on this thread tell a loved one "I love you" everyday? Aren't they concerned that it is repetitive and meaningless?
The mindlessness of it. Its not the form or the repetition its the fact its repeated out of practice and not thoughtfully. The our father is a perfect example I hear it all the time from Catholics but I never hear them pray its structure without its words.
Do you think Catholics are incapable of simulataneously repeating words in a prayer and yet meaning the words each time?
When kids spend the first five or six years of their catholic education learning what to say ie say X, rather than how to pray there is a problem.