Most people can not think or concentrate on 2 things at once
There is no way one can focus on the the events in the life of Christ and be concentrating on the hail Mary at the same time
Sure.
God, I'm talking to Mary but thinking about you, sort of. Like it's some sort of consolation prize.
And when we're in a group of people and talking to one, does it make the other person being ignored feel better because we didn't include them but were thinking about them?
If we consider that inexcusably rude to do it to other mere mortals, what makes anyone think that that is acceptable to do to God?
What is so hard for Catholics that they can't just can't think about God Himself or talk to God Himself? Why the middleman (or middlewoman)?
Most people can not think or concentrate on 2 things at once
Of course they can. How about riding a bicycle and singing? How about sight-reading piano music? Or a choir sight-reading a new anthem? Or marching band members playing their instruments and reading their music while marching in formation?
Most people CAN think of or concentrate on two things at once. It takes practice, and training, but humans are capable of doing multiple things at once.
Just because I can’t spell rite or rmemeber html while posting on FR doesn’t mean other people can’t. I can, however, hold an image of Mary greeting Elizabeth while praying the Rosary, or Christ being crowned with thorns. Nothing difficult about it.
I’m at the state in life where ONE thing escapes me quite often!