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So you didn't read the "meditation"? Then you don't know how the rosary works. It is as if you described the skeleton of a woman and then asked why a man would want to embrace her! If that were all there is to my beloved, there's be a lot less fun in my life. And if rattling off Aves were all there is to the Rosary there'd be a lot fewer Rosaries in my life.

But, I say again, you may be risking judging by the outward appearance and not as the Lord judges. You seem only to hear the drone of the little old ladies and to forget that they have an interior.

If Salvation posted the "Recipe" then it's a safe bet that the context included the meditation on the mysteries. So you posted an incomplete description of the Rosary. So an opinion of what the Rosary actually is is incomplete if it is confined to what you posted.

As I don't believe saying a rosary can help me out if I lie ....

What is this "help me out" stuff? Do you guys only pray to get stuff? Don't you ever just enjoy being with God and thinking about him? That's why I pray the Rosary, to enjoy God and to spend time with him. That's pretty much the same reason I pray the LOTH.

Christianity is more than a matter of the bottom line, you know. It's about "the delights at his right hand forevermore." It's about one day in his courts being better than a thousand elsewhere, and so forth.

I'll stick with "bitter mockery," a bitterness so sharp that it seems to prevent responding to what is written in reply to your posts.

"Forgive me father. For I have sinned..." It all starts in confession. Where the priest will EVENTUALLY give the confessor one Hail Mary to say, or 1000, whatever, for absolution.

Is this not how the rosary works? That would CERTAINLY be a "help me out father" circumstance. And I would assume that a lie is a sin. Which would require at least half a rosary being said for absolution.

It doesn't matter. Complete Rosary. Incomplete Rosary. They are your repetitions, not mine.

"Get stuff"?? Too ludicrous for my time.

You pray the Rosary to enjoy God and spend time with him. Guess what, MD, there's another way to enjoy God and spend time with him. It's called Going Directly to God, where Christ is our Mediator. Not a bracelet of Mary.

Have a good one.