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To: mlizzy
Here's a more direct link if anyone wants to learn how to say a rosary for the first time.
25 posted on 12/19/2009 6:17:44 PM PST by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than three years now -- But I think about it every day.)
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To: malkee

Yes, thank you ... I have that particular link on my site. I was looking for the easiest one to follow.


28 posted on 12/19/2009 6:20:35 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: malkee
Fulton J. Sheen, from his essay on the Rosary:

It is objected that there is much repetition in the Rosary because the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary are said so often; therefore some say it is monotonous.

That reminds me of a woman who came to see me one evening after instructions. She said, "I would never become a Catholic. You say the same words in the Rosary over and over again, and anyone who repeats the same words is never sincere. I would never believe anyone who repeated his words and neither would God."

I asked her who the man was with her. She said he was her fiancé. I asked: "Does he love you?" "Certainly, he does," "But how do you know?" "He told me." "What did he say?"

"He said 'I love you.'"

"When did he tell you last?"

"About an hour ago."

"Did he tell you before?"

"Yes, last night."

"What did he say?"

"I love you."

"But never before?"

"He tells me every night."

I said: "Do not believe him. He is repeating; he is not sincere."

The beautiful truth is that there is no repetition in, "I love you." Because there is a new moment of time, another point in space, the words do not mean the same as they did at another time or space.

Love is never monotonous in the uniformity of its expression. The mind is infinitely variable in its language, but the heart is not. The heart of a man, in the face of the woman he loves, is too poor to translate the infinity of his affection into a different word. So the heart takes one expression, "I love you," and in saying it over and over again, it never repeats. It is the only real news in the universe. That is what we do when we say the Rosary, we are saying to God, the Trinity, to the Incarnate Saviour, to the Blessed Mother: "I love you, I love you, I love you."

Each time it means something different because, at each decade, our mind is moving to a new demonstration of the Saviour's love.


84 posted on 12/20/2009 5:04:29 PM PST by giotto
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To: malkee

Thank you.


157 posted on 03/19/2010 9:08:22 AM PDT by Ladycalif ("If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Jesus)
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