After 200-300, I start to slow down, but the heartfelt meaning of the prayer doesn't change at all.
No priest ever actually gave me more than 50 to do as a penance (I guess they have to walk a balance when they're doling out the penalties for sin - just in case I start doing, like armed robbery or something awful. And still, they couldn't let me off easy for the venial stuff. )
Do you have a personal best time?
Oh yes, but not out loud. I don't know the rules.
It only takes a few seconds to read it when I see it on a thread.
I immediately reject the repetitious (up to 400 times?) speaking of that little prayer to the Catholic Mary as it is forbidden by the Word of God
Matthew 6:7 King James Version (KJV)So doing it 400 times or more is playing it forward?
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking
It covers you for future sins as you have done your penance?