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The Rosary is the Apostles Creed, the our Father, the Glory Be, and quotes from Scripture, along with asking Mary to pray for us, recited while meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus' birth, life, passion & ministry. It is hardly comparable to praying to Muhammad.

If you have any problem involving yourself with any of the above, you might as well be a Muhammadan.

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The Rosary is the Apostles Creed, the our Father, the Glory Be, and quotes from Scripture, along with asking Mary to pray for us, recited while meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus' birth, life, passion & ministry. It is hardly comparable to praying to Muhammad.

If you have any problem involving yourself with any of the above, you might as well be a Muhammadan.

When I was still a RC I remember Cardinal Cushing saying the Rosary. He could mumble his way through the whole thing in mere seconds. The fact that there was no time for any human to meditate at that speed is meaningless to you isn't it?

Have you ever paid attention to anyone "telling" their beads? Zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, etc., so fast it is impossible for a human to "meditate"?

Are you trying to kid anybody?

The Rosary is the Apostles Creed, the our Father, the Glory Be, and quotes from Scripture, along with asking Mary to pray for us, recited while meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus' birth, life, passion & ministry. It is hardly comparable to praying to Muhammad.

If you believe that’s the way God meant for you to communicate with Him, that’s fine, but I never say the same prayer twice, and I say no memorized prayers.

I would feel like a fake if I did, because once you ask God something, do you think he forgets what it was, so you have to repeat it over and over every day of your life?

Would you like it if every time your children talked to you, they repeated the same thing over and over in monotone, the same memorized thing, or would you like them to talk as they would to some one they loved, and in a sincere heartfelt way, and told you what was on their minds and what their concerns were?

Personally, the day I start repeating a memorized prayer, it’ll be because my mind has gone and I can’t be spontaneous any longer.

If you have any problem involving yourself with any of the above, you might as well be a Muhammadan.

And when I begin to pray like that, Muhammad will probably be the only one listening.

JH :-)

ventana; JHavard

The Rosary is the Apostles Creed, the our Father, the Glory Be, and quotes from Scripture, along with asking Mary to pray for us, recited while meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus' birth, life, passion & ministry. It is hardly comparable to praying to Muhammad.
If you have any problem involving yourself with any of the above, you might as well be a Muhammadan.
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48,764 posted on 04/26/2003 2:34 PM MDT by ventana

Where are we commended to meditate and if we are to meditate upon what topics are we to meditate ?

Matthew 23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say,
`Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" [Psalm 118:26]

Barukh haba b'Shem Adonai
Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord
Y'shua HaMashiach

chuck <truth@YeshuaHaMashiach>

The Rosary is the Apostles Creed, the our Father, the Glory Be, and quotes from Scripture, along with asking Mary to pray for us, recited while meditating on the Mysteries of Jesus' birth, life, passion & ministry. It is hardly comparable to praying to Muhammad.

The apostle's Creed is an invention of Catholicism. And If I'm not very much mistaken, "Invention" goes a great long way to describing it for what it is. Praying to Mary is at once useless and sin simultaneously, one might as well be pagan. And as it happens, one who does, is. Remember the 'you cannot serve two masters' statement. Ah, wait, forgot - you don't much buy into all that stuff the Apostles were teaching, your philosophy trumps those nits. You're one of those brilliant double agents I'd assume - so cleverly disguised as the enemy wearing our side's uniform, I'd hardly know the difference If you hadn't spoken. But do carry on. Perhaps you'll relate the tale for us about how blessed we'd be to shrink heads for God and king George.