The History of the
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- We are currently in the month of May, a month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this video, we will analyze the history and spiritual significance of the Rosary, one of the most popular Marian devotions in the Catholic Church.
Sources:
1)"The History and Devotion of the Rosary," by Fr. Richard Gribble, C.S.C. (Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 1992), accessed on: archive.org/de...
2)Herbert Thurston and Andrew Shipman, "The Rosary," in "The Catholic Encyclopedia," vol. 13 (1912), accessed on: www.newadvent....
3)Fr. William Saunders, "The History of the Rosary," accessed on: www.ewtn.com/c...
4)"The Holy Rosary," accessed on: web.archive.or...
5)Dr. Taylor Marshall, "How Mary Gave the Rosary to St. Dominic," accessed on: taylormarshall...
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Great scholarship - thank you for researching all this.
PRAISE THE LORD. AMEN.
AVE MARIA ORA PRO NOBIS. AMEN.
No one prayed to Mary in the NT nor in the 1st century. The Christian to pray only to God in the name of Christ and no other name.
I would have just a few things to say in response to that:
1)This may not be the strongest historical argument, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I don't really see a lot of evidence *against* the concept of, or any writings *discouraging*, the notion of praying to Mary or the saints. Now, this is where we may come into some differences (and you seem to have alluded to this in your comment), because, among some non-Catholic branches of Christianity, they may see any sort of veneration as a form of worship; or, they conflate the saints in heaven interceding on our behalf with what Christ does as the sole Mediator between God and man. So, these presuppositional differences will influence how we interpret the Biblical texts condemning idolatry: you will interpret any sort of prayer not explicitly or directly directed towards God as idolatrous, which, of course, doesn't make sense from a Catholic perspective because we believe Mary, the saints and the angels are created beings, and therefore are not equal to God.
2)Of course we are not going to see any evidence for praying to Mary in the A.D. 1st century. Why would we pray to the Apostles or Mary, for example, if they are still alive? Yet, starting as early as the A.D. 2nd century, such practices as preserving the relics of saints, visiting (and even holding religious services at) their tombs, having feast days in honor of the saints, writing prayers either honoring or asking for the intercession of the saints, and naming churches, monasteries and other places of worship after saints started to become common.
@@exploringthefaith3659 Christ and His apostles taught us everything we need to know about our relationship to God and how to live in this world as Christians. Not once did they encourage Christians to pray to the dead be it an apostle or Mary. Christ alone promised that those who ask in His name will answer their prayers. See John 16:23-24. No such promise was made about Mary. Therefore, no one should be praying to her for anything. It is a denial of what Christ taught. Christ alone is sufficient to answer your prayers.
@@Justas399 Firstly, I would say that I do appreciate the general concern that you have. You fear adding things to Divine Revelation that weren't originally there, or stating that things outside of Divine Revelation are equal in authority to Divine Revelation. The Catholic Church would agree with you that Divine Revelation began with the writing of the Old Testament and ended with the death of the last Apostle; there is no revelation after that point. And no authority outside of Divine Revelation, the Church would concede, is equal to that of Divine Revelation.
Yet, you begin by saying, "Christ and His apostles taught us everything we need to know about our relationship to God and how to live in this world as Christians. Not once did they encourage Christians to pray to the dead be it an apostle or Mary." It appears as if, implied in this statement, is the belief that something NOT being mentioned in Scripture is the same as it being condemned. The Catholic Church is not claiming that those liturgical or devotional practices or teachings not contained within or even implied by Scripture are, in fact, derived from Divine Revelation. No credible Catholic theologian or historian is claiming that the Rosary, for example, is directly outline in Scripture (in the sense of, "Oh yeah, if you go to such and such a book, such and such a chapter and verse, you'll see the Rosary spelled out" - though the majority of the Hail Mary is based on Scripture, as is the entire Our Father, and the Mysteries of the Rosary, so...). But, just because a practice is not contained within Scripture does not mean that the basic theological principles that lay the basis for it, go against what is taught in Scripture.
2)On that last point, you state that not only is there no Biblical basis for the Rosary, but that there are certain things in Scripture that WOULD lead you away from it. In quoting from John 16:23-24, you are implying that making prayers in Jesus' name precludes the possibility of praying to the saints. Yet, the Catholic Church would assert that this is rooted in a fundamental confusion concerning the nature of and distinction between intercession more generally and what Christ does in mediating our cause before the Father.
@@exploringthefaith3659 Praying to the dead does go against what Christ and His apostles taught. As I have said, Jesus commanded that we pray to God in His name and not in anyone's else' name.
Do you agree with this prayer?
Morning Consecration to Mary prayer:
"My Queen and my Mother,
I give myself entirely to you;
and to show my devotion to you,
I consecrate to you this day
my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart,
my whole being without reserve.
Wherefore, good Mother,
as I am your own,
keep me, guard me,
as your property and possession.
Amen."
@@Justas399 This response brings to mind a few different things:
1)You say, "Jesus commanded that we pray to God in His name and not in anyone's else' name. " This leads to the question: Did Jesus simply say, "Pray in My Name," and not mention anything about praying to the saints, or did He explicitly say, "Don't ask for the intercession of the saints"? As far as I know, nowhere in Scripture do you see the latter. Jesus never explicitly condemned praying to the saints.
2)The reason why you see such verses as John 16:23-24 (and, presumably, similar verses, such as Acts 4:12) as going against prayer to the saints is because you seem to be conflating the Mediation of Christ with the intercessory prayer of the saints in heaven. No one has access to the Father apart from the mediation of Christ. No one's prayers - from those of the greatest saints in heaven to the lowliest sinner on earth - reach the Father unless they are presented to the Father by Christ. We as Catholics don't believe that the saints do, or could do, what Jesus alone could do, as the God-man. Yet, there is nothing wrong with asking others to pray on our behalf (intercession), and asking for the intercession of the saints is particularly powerful since, as James 5:16 says, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." The more righteous we are, the closer we are to God, and therefore the more efficacious our prayers. Yet, who is more righteous than the saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary in particular? Thus, asking the saints for their intercession and spiritual protection is not only not against anything said in Scripture, but is a spiritually beneficial thing.
3)As a Catholic, I wouldn't have a problem with that prayer. Yet, when you keep in mind everything I said in my previous point, along with the fact (which I did go over in my video) that Mary gave birth to Jesus, and therefore was the means in which and through which God acting to become man - and, because of this, Mary is, outside of Jesus, one of the most important figures in God's Plan of salvation - this prayer begins to make more sense.
I can't believe religions who believe and agree with the teachings or practices condoned in this video actually believe they can find support for in Gods word.
Please, stop manipulating the word of God.
I'm sorry, but in what ways has the Word of God been manipulated?
@@exploringthefaith3659 So, do you really want to know in what ways Gods word has been manipulated or are will you not listen even when if I tell you? Have you gotten your mind made up, or will you allow the evidence as more important? Are you the person who posted the video? If so, you should already know since you posted the video and people need to know what they are posting and talking about before posting such information.
The rosary is the meditation of God’s word. It’s the gospel on beads!
@@markuse3472 I am a Catholic because I am convinced of Catholicism. This does not mean that I am unwilling to hear what other people have to say.
The purpose of this video was not a *defense* of the traditional Catholic view on Mary or of the Rosary, but simply a history of the Rosary and a statement of what the Catholic Church believes and why. It was more historical in nature than apologetic. But, if you would like to have a discussion on the Biblical roots of the traditional Catholic view on Mary, or the validity of what the Catholic Church believes, I would be open to do so.