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To: metmom
Let's look at your post 4138 line by line: The rosary has 10 times as many prayers addressed to mary as to God the father, with none addressed to Christ or the Holy Spirit. It is designed as a devotion to Mary thus exhaulting a human being above God.

"With none addressed to Christ or the Holy Spirit?

What about his one: "Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.

Last count was 50 "Hail Mary's" and "5 Our Father's". Is that incorrect, the numbers of each prayer?

It is incomplete, it leaves out the Gloria Patri and the Fatima prayers. So, yes, it is incorrect.

4,256 posted on 09/19/2011 1:41:26 PM PDT by Judith Anne ( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Judith Anne; metmom; caww; Tennessee Nana; Elsie; stonehouse01
Advice for people who pray the rosary.

"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do..." -Matthew 6:7

4,261 posted on 09/19/2011 2:14:32 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Judith Anne; metmom

Actually if you do the Rosary the usual way there are 53 Aves, 6 Paters, 6 Gloria Patris, 6 Fatima Prayers and it all starts with the Apostles Creed.

The Dominican way you have 50.5 Aves, 5 Paternosters, 6 Gloria Patris.

But looking at the problem like this is silly, because the Rsary isn’t all we do. With Mass and the Matins, Lauds, Vespers, and Compline, then all the proportions change.


4,267 posted on 09/19/2011 3:11:35 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Jesus, I trust in you.)
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To: Judith Anne; caww
What about his one: "Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.

Where is that one found and how many times? What about the Holy Spirit?

It is incomplete, it leaves out the Gloria Patri and the Fatima prayers. So, yes, it is incorrect.

Well, then, why don't you provide numbers?

I find that Catholics are great at telling others that they are wrong, but really fail at correcting the errors.

Come to think of it, it's pretty pervasive throughout Catholicism based on previous experience.......

4,275 posted on 09/19/2011 3:39:29 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Judith Anne
it leaves out the Gloria Patri and the Fatima prayers.

But it is my understanding the whole idea about counting on the rosary beads is not to forget or leave out prayers and one of the reasons it is used????

4,290 posted on 09/19/2011 4:14:22 PM PDT by caww
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