I ALWAYS try to say YES to the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately I'm sometimes weak. I say a rosary every day before Mass with a group from our Church. They take turns every week leading the rosary just before Mass. I often say another rosary at home. It rests my soul and mind to pray to our good Lord. Always has.
We have our own "Jase Robertson." One priest I have in mind is SUCH a good homilist and confessor that I am GLAD that he's much younger than I am. I'll be listening to him for many moons. He can even give me the last sacrament: Anointing of the sick.
Our good Lord called MANY good men to be priests. There are MANY "Jace Robertsons" in the world. I'm MOST thankful that they answered God's call. And I am delighted that you find your answers with him...a blessing from our good Lord.
By the way you aren't the ONLY one to behave in a stupid and stubborn manner. We all have shuddered.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!
Begins at the 13:36 mark — ends @ 16:16.
The rosary is a false prayer to Mary with some elements of Truth mixed in.
Praying to Mary, while it might make you feel good, is not going to help.
All of our prayers are to be directed to God. We pray to the Creator....not the created.
Your motive may be well, but you are not saying YES to the Holy Spirit and praying to the good Lord by saying the rosary any day. For like as with other distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels), nowhere in Scripture do we see any believers any where engaging in prayer to created beings in Heaven (PTCBIH), or instructed to do so, despite the Spirit inspiring the recording of over 200 prayers, and of this being a most basic practice. And despite there always being plenty of created beings to pray to, and occasions for it since the Fall, yet the only prayers or offerings in Scripture to anyone else in the unseen spiritual heavenly is by pagans, including to the only Queen of Heaven seen in Scripture.
Failing to find even one example of PTCBIH, and with instruction on who to address in prayer to Heaven only being that of to the Lord, thus you must resort to eisegetical extrapolation, presuming those in Heaven can not only hear/understand all prayers from earth, mental or oral (which only God is shown able to do), but that we are to address them, though again the Holy Spirit never mentions even one example of doing so.
Meanwhile, from what I recall, any two-way communication btwn created beings in Heaven and earth required both to somehow be present in the same location, and was not that of asking them to intercede to God for them, and was very rare.
Note that elders and angels offering prayers (Rv. 5:8; 8:4,5) in memorial - like as in Lv. 2:2,15,16; 24:7; Num. 5:15; 16:9, "an offering of memorial" cf. Num. 16:9, - is not that of them being addressed in prayer, nor does it indicate that they had heard them previously, nor is it described as being a regular postal service, but it is one of the things which is a preclude to the final judgments upon the earth, testifying to the persecutions of the saints by the devil and world that it fit to be punished.
For when "He maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. (Psalms 9:12; cf. Genesis 4:10) and before judgment God brings forth testimony of the warrant for it, which includes the cry of those martyred souls under the altar in Rv. 6:9, and with odors representing prayer, akin to Leviticus 6:15, "burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord." (Leviticus 6:15)
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