I know what you are saying about rote prayers. Some prayers I have memorized because they concentrate my mind on Christ and bring me where I need to be, to pray from my deepest heart without words, with the help of the Holy Spirit to Christ my Love.
The rosary is a meditation on events in the life of Christ. Most non-Catholics ridicule that, or quote scripture at it. This does not bother me. I didn’t care much for the rosary until I learned it by praying it, and found the benefit of putting my own concerns aside and thinking about Christ’s life, from the Annunciation to the Glory. It gives a perspective — that everything here is fleeting, both praises and shame, but He is eternal and I am His.
The rosary is not rote prayers, it is a meditation on the gospels. Just like the Our Father never wears out, no matter how many times it is said, or how many people say it, just as the Gospels never wear out, no matter how many times I read them, the Rosary is ever new.
But I do not expect to convince any non-Catholic of any of this, nor does that matter.
Thanks for the reply. Like I said, your prayer to God is between you and him, however you want to do it.