How to REALLY Pray the Rosary
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- Fr. Mark-Mary discusses how to really pray the Rosary and go deeper than the external mechanics. Primarily it’s about relationship and not simply recitation. Fr. Mark-Mary explains three aspects of the Rosary on which we can contemplate:
The person of Jesus Christ
The words of the prayers, which are Scriptural
The Mysteries, which cover the whole life of Jesus.
There is so much to be found in this beautiful prayer, but its beauty can easily be overlooked. As Pope St. Paul VI said:
“Without contemplation the Rosary is just a body without a soul.”
It does no good to pray the Rosary while your mind and heart are somewhere different. If you’re new to praying the Rosary or have struggled to pray it, maybe just read one of the mysteries in Scripture and pray three Hail Marys. Fall in love with the Rosary little by little if that’s what it takes.
Fr. Mark-Mary is talking about the Rosary all October. Stay tuned for more videos on this powerful prayer.
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I'm using my sister's account to make a comment I'm 9 years old. All I want to say is amen and pray to get blessed by God and stay safe!
What a brave thing to do, Yosselin. The Holy Spirit inspired you to do so. But it was your receptive heart that made you follow through by posting this reply. You made Jesus and His Holy Mother, Mary very happy. I will pray for you and your loved ones whenever I remember to do so. May God continue to bless you.
What a brave thing to do. Thank you also for writing how old you are. Obviously the Holy Spirit inspired you to post a reply. But it was your open and receptive heart that made you follow through! I will pray for you whenever I remember to do so.
Amen
You'd want to let your big sister and your parents know that detail, Sir, for a matter of honesty and personal virtue... as well as being mature in terms of character at that, so she doesn't lack understanding of where the mysterious emails related to this are coming from... and thus avoiding any fights.
@@chissstardestroyer I already know my little brother is always honest to everyone and it makes me proud. His faith keeps me going, as a 19 year old I look up to my little brother. Everyday before going to bed and before he even starts his day he thanks the lord and prays. He’s an amazing example in my family❤️
Thank you for this video. Your explanation has helped alot. Years ago I was praying earnestly for something and the vivid thought came to me that I should pray it 50 times. This was before I knew about the rosary. Then, a few days later, someone gave me a rosary and I started learning about it. I've held it in my heart since then as my "go to" place for peace and meditation. As St. Padre Pio says...it is our weapon. Peace and love to you! 💖💖💖
It is difficult to truly pray the rosary without falling into a pattern of repetition but it's true value and meaning can be felt if one slows down and thinks about the words and what they mean. The same is true of the mysteries. For example, when mentioning the Lord suffering when being scoured , picture the blood and scars on his body and the probable expression of pain and anguish on His face. While difficult to contemplate, it gives an appreciation of what the words in the prayer(s) truly mean in depth and thus enriches the experience of the prayers.
Fr Mark-Mary has truly helped me to understand. I have been concerned that I am just saying the prayer and counting how man I have done but I will start looking, reading and trying to understand each mystery. To give meaning to what I am doing and I hope to greatly improve my relationship with the Lord and with Our Lady..
Thank you for posting this! I love the idea of focusing not so much on the recitation and more on reflecting on the prayers and mysteries. I especially like the idea of taking a mystery a day or a week and doing 3 Hail Marys with it. This I think breaks the mold of simply of reciting the rosary and exploring it within. Again, thank you and God Bless!
This video was very helpful - I think I sometimes have fallen into the idea of “getting through the beads.” Truly reflecting on these mysteries and giving purpose to this powerful form of prayer is something I am going to be working on. God bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ!
Thank you so much! I have learned invaluable lessons and tips on how to pray the Rosary in a more meaningful way 🙏♥️
There's something to be said for rote repetition. Some days, you're just not capable of focusing or meditating. I don't skip the rosary on those days. If all I can manage is "vain repetition," then that's what I do. Perseverance in obedience has its place. It's putting one foot in front of the other. Some days, you can't even do that. So, you do the best you can and hold your ground.
Amen to that. I got in the habit of using my fingers as beads so I could plod through a rosary no matter the circumstances. My circumstances being a chronic pain affliction. Another observation; The devil hates the rosary.
I can pray 4 rosary's everyday but like it was mentioned it's not easy your thoughts wonder and I used to lose focus ...but I noticed that by me praying my rosary people around me lives started to change
Keep up the good work Fr. Mark Mary!
Spilt up the Rosary... a Decade at a time :
1 when you wake up
2 after breakfast
3 at lunchtime
4 at dinner time
5 prior to sleep
Thanks!
I really struggle with focusing/meditating on each mystery. It's really hard for my mind NOT to wonder and I CAN NOT pray it while I'm doing house work because my mind is EVERYWHERE. I hate this about me. I want to say a good rosary, but it's really hard for me, and since Our Lady asked us for one rosary at Fatima, I'd just like to get ONE good one a day. I do say a daily rosary and I was trying to say all 20 mysteries for a while, but I feel like ONE good one from me is better than 4 where my mind was everywhere.
I have that book and I also use the Rosary Companion from the Magnificat 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹
I respectfully disagree that the Rosary should not feel like a duty. Sometimes it does feel like a duty. However, I can slowly refocus on the mysteries while saying the rosary. It’s like going to the gym. I don’t always feel like going, but I’m always glad I went.
That's beautiful! Thank you :)
Hello.
I'm French speaker.
I would like learn English language with Catholic English speaker.
If someone wants to help me for my pronunciation...
So say with me the rosary .
Thanks for help me.
I disagree with your comments on only praying the Rosary if you do it the right way. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. I started praying the Rosary when I did not even believe in God. I did not even own a Rosary; I used my ten fingers to count the Hail Marys. I had to read all the prayers online because I knew none of them. I wanted to believe in God and the Rosary was something I never tried. I had some good feelings after I said the Rosary, so I kept saying it. After a few months of saying the prayer, I wanted to find out more about God. I started attending mass and eventually joined the Catholic Church. After I joined the church gave me The Secrets of the Rosary book by Louis de Monfront. Then I learned how to say the Rosary the right way. After all these years, I still pray the Rosary.
Can you pray the Rosary if you haven't been baptized?
I'm 43 and I'm getting Baptized on Easter Vigil!
Mad mechanic congratulations!!
Curious, with the Corona Virus thing... Did you manage to get baptized after all?
Praise be to God. Hope you still got baptised.
@@4pharaoh they are delaying Baptisms but yes they are still doing them.
@@jacobhall1488 You may not agree with Catholicism, but you can at least respect others beliefs, that would be the right thing to do. God bless you
I prayed the rosary for the first time in more than 15 years, today
I’m starting I’ve never done it before .
Well done 👍🏻🙏
To whom did you pray the rosary for 15 years? To Mary? Is Mary God for you to pray to her? Did Jesus ask you to pray to Mary? Mary is still among the dead. She has not risen from her death yet. So whom are you praying to with your cultic rosary?
Nimal Perera you pray to Jesus and Mary when you say the rosary?
Mary takes the prayers to Jesus .
So many of us waste our time scrolling in social media and watching TH-cam..... there shouldn’t be a reason that you’re so “busy” to not pray the rosary 📿
Praying the rosary and to Mary is unbiblical. You need to open your heart to Jesus and follow Him only! God Bless!
Fabio Tuan
Unbiblical? The decades of the Rosary contemplates events in the life of Christ. His suffering, birth, resurrection, ascension. The prayers are the OUR FATHER, don't think you object to that, the GLORY BE to the trinity, and the HAIL MARY. The first part of the HAIL MARY is virtually the Bible book of Luke chapter 1.
verse 28, Hail full of grace. The Lord is with you.
verse 42, Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
The second half is asking Mary to pray to Jesus for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. We can and do pray for our loved ones, even the unloved.
I'll take all the help I can get. The Rosary isn't a vain repetition like OHM OHM of Hinduism but centered on our God.
@@fabiotuan5206 To Jesus, through Mary 💙
@@joansavethecats8513
So you are saying Mary hears the requests/prayers of millions, if not billions of people across the world to pass onto Jesus? So she ìs not only a mediator but a goddess as well is that what your saying?
no, she is not a goddess, but an intercessor. We pray the rosary to her to intercede for us, hence the many miracles and souls saved from eternal deamination.
I've been reciting the Rosary nightly, over the past 21 nights. Tomorrow I've booked a Confessional with our Parish Priest, this Penance and Reconciliation is the First one in 45 years!
I’m a lifelong Protestant. I didn’t start believing in any sort of offering of prayers to Mary until I had the worst toothache I’ve ever experienced. The worst part of it was that I had a trip planned for my grandmother’s 100th birthday. I couldn’t afford to do both, as my budget was just that tight.
I started saying Hail Marys, and guess what? It almost felt like magic the depth of peace and strength I felt wash over me. I went on the trip, in an intense amount of pain. I also found a way to get the dental work done in a timeframe that actually worked for my needs.
I’m not saying that I say Hail Marys every day or anything, but I definitely have learned a different perspective than the one that I grew up with. It was a really eye opening experience for me, for sure.
I also quite recently started learning how to pray with a rosary. I’m very definitely struggling with the mechanics of it, and I sometimes get the prayers in the wrong order. I try not to overthink it though, and I remember that God cares much more about the intentions of my heart than he does about whether or not I can remember “O My Jesus” every decade.
Poco a poco, voy a llegar!
I pray the rosary 4 times a day in the morning, lunchtime, evening and at bedtime. I feel such a peace after every one. I also pray the divine mercy chaplet everyday at 3pm with my rosary too!
That's great to hear! Great graces have been given to you and you have responded to the Lord's call for your life. Keep thanking God for giving you a powerful daily prayer life. Remember, its all about God's mercy and not our own piety or goodness. I've learned this the hard way through long periods of darkness and addiction. God bless!
Impressive!! Keep us in mind when you pray. Please and thank you.
This is quite inspiring
Saya sudah lama tidak berdoa rosary.. baru saja bulan ini saya memulai berdoa rosary dan saya lakukan doa rezeki ini.. sehari dua kali.. seminggu penuh dan semakin lama saya berdoa rosay ini semakin saya jatuh cinta dengannya.
That’s so awesome ! I started doing the same thing!!! It’s such a great feeling
After 3 weeks of paying the rosay, I can only imagine the great pain our lady went through watching her son suffering for us. Mary pray for us.
Mary is in heaven with Jesus.
@Tom Jenkins Hebrews 12:1 The dead cannot witness.
And yours is like a 10 year old
While praying the sorrowful one day, I put myself in Mary's place when she encountered Jesus. Then I saw my own son in the place of Jesus. I really lost it!
@Tom Jenkins Ye of little faith... prayers to you.
I prayed the rosary for the first time today and I can't stop thinking about it
Keep going
Have you been Catholic for a long time or you recently converted?
The Rosary has many promises attached to it.
Keep it up! It’s a weapon.
@Tricia Perry
It is the prayer not only the object.
the pandemic situation made me started to pray the rosary daily as a habit
Read your Bible, God never said to do that. God hates prayers that have “vain repetitions.” The rosary prayer was started around the 1300s by some guy named Dominic whom said that the Virgin Mary appeared unto him and told him to stop praying the psalms and start this wicked practice. It’s a false teaching.
@@peacefulprotester3274 nothing vain bout the mother of god praying for us
"Satan always aims at destroying the ROSARY, but he will never succeed! It is the PRAYER of Her who prevails over each and all. It is She who taught it to us, as Jesus taught us the Our Father."
-St Padre Pio
Our life is just like the rosary, there is Joyful, sorrowful, glorious and luminous mysteries.
Maricel Schill profound comment! Thank you!
🤯🤯🤯
Truly, as Christ taught us that the servant is no greater than the master. As Christians, our whole lives and being are joined to Christ...His suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension into Glory
l agree
I should add that the Luminous Mysteries are optional. JP2 himself said as much.
My husband and I have 3 sons, 4 daughters and 21 grandchildren. We often get together to pray the Rosary. How important for all of us to meditate every mystery. Thank you Father Mark.
Converted 30 years ago and had never prayed the rosary until the first time 17 days ago. Why that day? No idea! Had to Google everything, prayers, order, mysteries. I've never felt a deep connection to Mary but what you said about building a relationship is so true. Spending time not only saying the prayers, but contemplating the words and the mysteries and how they connect to me has made the time I spend doing this every day, something I look forward to so much. It is kind of like falling in love and I look forward to deepening my understanding and faith. Thank you for explaining things so clearly.
happy for you
Ellen C yes!!!
Look at the date and feast day on that day you began the Holy Rosary prayer?
Our Lady of the holy Rosary great feast day was just last week 7th October. In the octave of the feast either days is powerfull Graces coming to us! May the Most Holy Trinity bless your life and draw you to beautiful worship to them!!!3
Nice message...
God bless...
Teared up. ❤
When I pray the rosary I begin by asking the Holy Spirit to guide me and then I imagine walking with Our Lady through the life of her son. For instance, in the agony of the garden I sit myself down next to our Lord, put my arm around him and try to just be there for him. At the birth of our Lord, I take in all that is going on....the Angel's in Heaven sneaking in a peek....and so on. I let the Holy Spirit and the Blessed reveal to me whatever they want me to see. Sometimes you don't want to leave a particular event. It becomes a real encounter with God. It reminds me of when I was young and sat next to my grandmother. We would look through the pictures and she would tell me stories of each picture and the people in them. Some times she would focus on a different aspect of the picture. Hope this helps anyone trying to go deeper. God bless.
God bless you for sharing this.. I may apply as being new to the rosary it is hard at times to remain focused. I am sharing with my mother as well whom I am giving a rosary to shortly.
I love that thank you
@Tricia Perry it doesn’t matter. I have an amazing relationship with God and His mother and feel very fortunate
@Tricia Perry : Since you know this is a Catholic site, stop trolling with your Protestant comments. We know who we are, and we are Warriors for His Truth. We have the Teachings given to us since the beginning of our Lord’s ministry over 2020 years ago, whereas in the 1500’s, along comes Martin Luther, who decided he knew more than God, and removed 6 Books from the Bible. Consider it like an apple, whole and perfect; then take 6 bites out of it, and it is no longer whole, but missing a large piece and is no longer whole. Luther took away all Dogma’s, Traditions, the devotion to the Blessed Mother, and the Saints, etc and now where are the Protestants? 35,000+ offshoots of this “protest” of His Faith and counting. Please go and save yourself.
@@massabielle2821 ma'am you are sincerely.... bonkers along with the entire false and looney bin RCC. Believing the LIES sold to you and DEMONIC heretical beliefs
I will say what I want IT IS BANANAS....
Martin Luther has nothing to do with HOLINESS. and none of you have the true holy spirit from God.. ..
Just chants and ritualistic and traditons passed down by pale faced demented men.
We are not PROTESTANT..... everything not catholism is said to be Protestant. Just rubbish and the explanation given by all you CATHOLICs are the same......Martin Luther did this and took this out the bible. Luther was not a child of God and didn't have the gospel or the holy spirit ........
I pray every day five decades either I pray morning or evening when arrived home from work and Divine Mercy Chaplet most I pray morning before work.
Same..
God bless you Tess! Keep it up! ✝️🌷
I’ve been praying one set of mysteries each night and it’s been amazing, but I need more because I’m still sinning.
I’m going to try to move toward praying all three sets if mysteries each day.
I feel compelled to try to memorize the prayers in Latin also.
This has got to work. I really want to not offend Our Lord so much.
Tess Chavit, do pray for me (job+ life partner)
Divine Mercy Chaplet never miss a day, even if it is the worst and it means it get it prayed by 11:59. My Saint Faustina changed my life. I try very hard to do all of the groups of mysteries each day. It will change your life. ALL of the Rosary each day will change your life. Its very difficult sometimes to accomplish.
Any person who tells you that as soon as they start praying the rosary or any prayer for that matter can immediately focus on God and maintain that without difficulty is lying to you. There will be times when you catch yourself focused on other things during prayer thats fine dont think that just because you were a little distracted that you failed to pray. Simply during these times ask you angel or Jesus or Mary to help you focus and meditate on the mysteries.
Theropod gamer some people also say that even if you don’t stop sinning to keep on praying it.
A friend of mine who is Catholic said that even if you sin, keep praying the rosary. This is war. I’m serious. This is war.
I have had days where I just hide though the day, elevated above sin, but then I fail on another day.
God help us.
I am going to boldly persist, if this is the last thing I do. If I fail at everything else, let THIS happen well!
Tom Jenkins yes Mary is human and a woman. She is also the Mother of Jesus who is God, the spouse of the Holy Spirit ( since she conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit) and the beloved daughter of God the Father. Jesus could have come into the world without the help of a mere human but God the Father in his infinite wisdom chose a mere woman to be part of human salvation. Pretty amazing I would say, chosen by God the Father himself. And Jesus on the cross gave her to us when he said to John the apostle “ behold your Mother”. John represents all of us. The Blessed Mother is our spiritual Mother since Jesus is our brother.
Tom, don't know where you get your information, but for the record, we do not worship Mary, we worship God. But we do honor Mary, blessed mother of God. Use a dictionary & look up the meaning of worship & the meaning of honor. This may give you some clarity. As well we do not worship statues, another misconception of many non Catholics. Mary is the true mother of God, because Jesus lived in her body till birth, it is correct to say she IS not only the Immaculate conception, but also the Holy Temple of God!!! Please help yourself by learning more about Mary, Mother of God & you will be well on your way to appreciating what God gave us, his Holy Mother. Read Elizabeth's greeting when Mary came to visit her. In God's divine plan He gave us Mary. Ignoring this gift is to ignore God's gift to mankind.
St. Teresa of Avila mentioned in her autobiography that for 40 years she was not able to pray unless she would read some 'spiritual writings' before-hand! I do not remember if she indicated if it was the Holy Bible or a book about a saint, but that she would read some 'spiritual writings' before she would pray. Hoping this helps!..
Even Jesus realized that the spirit is willing but the flesh might be weak. Jesus will never let you down if your are sincere and trying
You have literally no idea about God's timing in my life about this. God bless you.
Pray the Rosary or the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day. It will change your life. Make a promise to do one of these every day no matter how low your day is. God hears your prayers.
Jack Bull same here.
Yes we do, God's timing for all of us is perfect, God bless 🙏
@@lisamarie4sanmarcos He does. Amen.
“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.” - Pope Saint John Paul II
Thank you Fr. Mark. Two of the greatest gifts our LORD gave us before he ascended into heaven , the EUCHARIST and Mother Mary. Catholicism is beautiful.
Have faith in mother Mary..Rosary is our protection..
My boss who is Catholic recently gave me a rosary and taught me how to pray the rosary. The first time I prayed, I felt peace and love from Mother Mary. I now pray it every day! Thank you for this channel!!! ❤❤❤
I have tried to meditate on the mysteries while praying. Recently, during the Joyful Mysteries I had this interior feeling and vision of St. Mary presenting her infant son Jesus to me and the grin and tears that came to my eyes was amazing.
mine is similar. I have an image in my mind of Mary pregnant with Jesus and it feels so good saying the words "blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus"... I find myself in the position of her cousin Elizabeth feeling and saying "Who am I that the mother of my Lord is here to visit me."
I heard a you tube Rosary where the Mystery was spoken in between each Hail Mary. Like a verse or two then a Hail Mary, then by the end of the decade, the Mystery was fully read,prayed, or contemplated. I haven't done this yet, but will try this.
@@kimberlyivanov7425 its called scriptural rosary
Penfold8... I was praying the sorrowful mysteries a few years ago and as I was meditating on Jesus in The Garden of agony I ask him if I could come in to the garden and comfort him and suddenly I was there interiorly and I felt the most horrifying fear and the most profound love for him and I really sensed the Holy Spirit at some point was present around me! It was scary yeah it was so beautiful!! And I believe my love for Jesus was tripled that night join that meditation of the Rosary!!
DanInspiration got rid of the beads and converted to the scriptural rosary. Bottom line: whatever works for you is fine. Everyone is different
When I pray the rosary, I placed myself at the site of the corresponding mystery.... so for example at the agony in the garden, I placed myself besides Jesus in the garden, keeping him company and loving him....
I do that too and it really helps me get into it. Its sorta like lectio divina but with the rosary
"relationship and not just recitation " is a perfect way to understand how to pray the rosary ❤️ thank you Father for explaining this brilliantly in a non overwhelming and imposing way.
Pray the Rosary FROM the Heart! 💓
Then the distractions will go away!
God bless you always Fr. Mark! ✝️
This was very helpful! I began RCIA this year and have started trying to pray the rosary regularly. (Still need a cheat sheet, but I find that listening to rosary podcasts helps me follow along and stay focused.)
This video answered some questions I had about where my thoughts should be focused during the recitations. Also encourages me NOT to be discouraged when I occasionally find myself thinking about what I need to make for dinner in the middle of a Hail Mary! Just gently redirect my thoughts and keep going. As you say, poco a poco! 🙏
"My brothers and sisters. My future saints out there." Love this line. Thank you.
When we pray the rosary we are accompanying Mary as she accompanies Jesus. Accompanying Jesus with Mary
I am gonna pray after this vid!
Find a Muslim woman then convert her to Christ.
The authority on the Rosary: Saint Louis de Montfort. I recommend it to everyone.
For anyone who wants to learn about the Rosary, look up a book titled: Secrets of The Rosary, by St. Louis De Montfort
Pray 15 decades every day for the Church! This synod is bringing so much strife in the Church.
Our Lady of Akita, pray for us!
Add on another 5 and pray 20
@Ignatius The life and mysterys of Christ is not a novelty. The Baptism of Jesus, The Wedding feast of Cana, the Proclamation of the Kingdom, The Transfiguration, The Institution of the Holy Eucharist. These are not novelty its scriptural. Don't do them if you don't want too, but to do all 20 mysteries brings me through the whole life of Christ, it has brought many blessings and much more understanding. They tied it all together.
Pray the rosary for 5 times how like Fr. Pio of the Pietrelcina 🤗
@Ignatius There seems to be lots pressure to "try something new" (Luminous Mysteries, knock-off meditative chants) to recapture the fallen-Faithful within our modern society. Centuries pass, but the Rosary remains... Popes come and go, but the Rosary remains.
@@praytherosaryeveryday2709 - but best to pray the Traditional 15 decades of the 3 sets of mysteries, such a shame JPII mucked about with the Holy Rosary, everyone he touched seemed to go wrong. he even wanted to mess about with Stations but luckily that got ignored. Our Lady asked we meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries on First Saturday, there's a reason for the 15 minutes. God bless you and Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us
Ugh I've been feeling called to do a rosary novena but have been putting it off because I'm lazy. Guess this is my push.
DO IT! October is the Month of the Rosary! Let’s go hard!
heavenly flame I started when I saw Jackie video about it! I’m already 15 days in!! I hope you start and finish it!! ☺️
I saw the Jackie one too! Yes it's time to start...... past time....
you can do the 54 day rosary...just a saying.... =) and if you want to kick it up a notch, pray all four mysteries of our Lord Hugs my friend.....
@@weallhaveanopinion Me too, 11th day now :) And i have already recieved help on issue i prayed for, hope full ir will be answered fully. Im thankfull!
God must want me to pray the rosary because TH-cam has been notifying me a lot from videos showing up..
Lil Kay ikr.. but realized we are in october, the month of the rosary.. 😃🤞🏻
hahahaha... Just recently prayed rosary again, and just nice the most recent video of Ascension Presents is about Rosary! :O
Cari God does things like that. Give it a pray for a few days. See what happens. Internally it will bring you closer to Jesus through Mary. Externally it is a sword that cuts down demons and scatters the world of the Devil.
Yes the Rosary makes you the Doom Marine.
Side less I know that is true. I can tell God is trying to tell me something. No kidding. But I sort of don’t have time to pray the rosary so I just say a decade when waiting for the bus..
@@caribaez5711 A decade is better then nothing. There are methods to help you get to a full 5 decades or even 15 decades in a day.
Think of it like weightlifting or training if you are a novice or just really getting serious about prayer of course you can't be expected outside of the grace of God to pray 3 complete Rosary in a day or 45 decades like St. Padre Pio.
Start with praying 1 decade every single day for 1 week then add a decade every week after to that after 5 weeks you are praying 5 decades in a day. Then do the same another 5 weeks going up to 10, and then to 15.
I am personally working on praying 1 decade a day for a month then moving up to 3 every day for a month and then 6 and so on until I reach 15.
tl;dr Stick with it.
When I pray the Rosary, I dedicate each bead to a person or situation that relates to the decade. Is this okay?
Me too.
Yes you can! You can personalize the Rosary..it will give deeper meaning to your prayer.
Absolutely!
Yes, I do that too and offer my prayers to any person in need like the sick, unemployed, depressed etc.. When I pray the Rosary, I ask the blessed mother to pray with me. The rosary is like holding Mary's hands and with each decades and mysteries imagine yourself being there. The Rosary is a Christ Centered prayer.
I do the same
Once my mom past away I started to pray the rosary every Friday Saturday and Sunday. If I can once during the week. I bought a book for children it’s called the the rosary for children and this is how I learned how to pray. Thanks father for this video. Luv the cup
Hi Hassie, your mom and the Saints are praying the Rosary with you.
Blessed Virgin Mary is the New Eve, Ark of New Covenant, Queen Mother, Queen of Heaven in Revelation.
Ave Maria
If someone would have said 20 years ago that it's possible to watch a Fransiscan friar talking from Computer screen I would have said: "Get out of here"
Mother Mary is the greatest blessing to the world
The repetitive nature of the Rosary draws my mind away from myself and my distractions into the life of
Christ and the grace of the
Virgin Mary. I know the Rosary prayer is working when I get lost in it, am surprised and a little sorry when it's over, despite knowing that the silence that follows will be a time of quiet and personal prayer, having been brought, in a way, before the Lord through the Rosary.
I'm a 57-year-old Catholic raised in the age that believed, 'Endurance = Love of God'. This is the best advice I've received on the Rosary my entire life.
For me praying the Rosary is like a "phone call" to Mary and Jesus, but the kind of phone call that can hug you from inside. Can't live without it now
La Cargan, you were doing ok then you blew it big time. Like a phone call to Mary? Jesus will answer, mary's line is dead.
@@rbnmnt3341 Your answer tells me that you aren't Catholic or even Orthodox then.
Try praying in tongues and you will get true revelation!!!
This is how we should pray we need to be in contemplation in all our prayers.
The rosary helped my whole prayer life. After awhile I found myself talking to god all throughout the day.
When I pray, especially the joyful mysteries, I have an image in my mind of Mary pregnant with Jesus and it feels so good saying the words "blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus"... I find myself in the position of her cousin Elizabeth feeling and saying "Who am I that the mother of my Lord is here to visit me."
so beautiful ... i too have beautiful images once i cried with joy when i saw our blessed mother kissing the feet of her infant baby Jesus ..... its a beautiful thing to say the rosary
Beautiful
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SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!!! PLEASE DON'T STOP!!!!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH
@@jamesgonzales7994 Thank you!💕😊
IDOLATRY! YOU ARE DECEIVED
youre doing just fine. dont listen to badly formulated weirdos that have no idea about catholic theology.
keep up the good fight little soldier of christ.
@@TheMountAndBladerX10 just fine...in time to swim in the eternal lake of fire
I prayed 4 rosaries too for spouse but not yet come but I'm continuing praying
Pray with Father Groeschal love his meditation.
Ha! “My future saints” ...see what ya did there! Have not heard a priest talk about Sainthood in forever.....
Thérèse I heard a priest say once that God wills us all to be saints.
stmtraps that’s what I herd too exempt he said we are all saints but he wants us to be Saints
@@blairrollen8587 - exactly
he should not have said that as it can breed presumption, let's hope though
@@marcokite he said future saints...we are to strive towards that. And there are millions, billions of unknown saints tbh
Father Mark, please encourage also our brothers and sisters in Christ to have a devotion to the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” to go to mass every first friday of the month and pray for 9 days the Sacred Heart of Jesus prayers. I started to have a devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus since this March 2019, I bought early last year the prayer book but I didn’t pray, I put only in the shelf beside the statue of our Lady of Lourdes that I have in my little altar. One night last year I had a dreamt that I was kneeling, clasping my hand praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary and suddenly man appeared in Mary’s side, I look up fixedly to him but he didn’t say anything, when I woke up in the morning I knew that it was Jesus who appeared in my dreamt. Every day I tried to remember which pictures of Jesus that has a similarity in my dreamt, finally I find it the answer, it was the Novena of the Sacred of Jesus picture, so I started this year to have a devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. I think God He reminds me not just to put in the shelf the prayer book but to pray to his Sacred Heart.
Are you talking about the Padre Pio Sacred Heart prayer? I just found out about that. What's the first Friday thing?
@@justinward3218 "In the excess of the mercy of my Heart, I promise you that my all powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the First Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the grace of final repentance: they will not die in my displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; and my Heart will be their secure refuge in that last hour."[2]
Jesus Christ to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Godbless i hope you keep me in your prayers. Thanks
Justin Ward, Novena of the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” not Padre Pio, you can ask to the catholic book shop. It’s a short and simple prayer of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Wow i was just thinking i need to say my rosary and this vid came up😍
E K Me too.
"God always gives a greater blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells." -St. Vincent de Paul
❤️I am an orthodox priest and love to pray the holy rosary. Thank you for this video Father, Glory to Jesus Christ.🕊
Sad that I didn't see this sooner.
This should be the first thing people should see/know before they start to pray rosary
I just got finished praying a rosary ♡ I'm excited for this video!
I'm all for Rosary, I pray it a lot, yet meditation WHILE saying Hail Mary is very difficult most of the time, thoughts wander; but I do know the mysteries themselves, Ido love my Bible, so I ask you Father Mark-Mary - why not just meditate/contemplate the life of Jesus and Mary, without the beads, without the "distraction" of Hail Marys -and say the latter, reverently separately, for instance AFTER the meditation. What to do? Btw, I love prayer, and meditation, I can do that if not distracted longer than 15 minutes. What would God like better in a situation like mine?
Pray with your friends/family.. better experience
There are rosary 'scripts' (or whatever the right word is) that include Sacred Scripture applicable to each mystery, so it ends up being a reading of Scripture followed by a decade, and on to the next. I think that is effective way for beginners to go. But at some point the mystery and prayers combine together like music and lyrics.
@@paulmiller3469 Yes, I have such ones; the "problem" remains.
@@joehouston2833 I prayed with the Church, and with my children; for me it's not exactly better. Less room for meditation, because concentration is worse. But other prayers, yes, I agree.
@Craig Martis I understand perfectly. I read about the Rosary, I read sth of St. L de Montfort too, and I dedicated myself to Mary as well. I'm trying hard; I'm even a member of the Brotherhood of the Rosary here in my country. But, the two main ways of meditating while praying are inaccessible to me mostly. I have a strange but scientifically documented (I haven't invented this) medical/neurological problem - I don't visualise pictures - it happens spontaneously, but rarely. Memories are there, but blurry abd kinda gray; dreams are "normal" - no way to compare though. It's called aphantasia. All I can do is think with words, and that works in praying the Rosary sometimes, but it's words against words, two sets of words simultaneously, so... it's only Grace whenever a decade is accompanied by some ligths or a memory (like from the film "Passion" - powerful! and I also look at pictures representing mysteries, that helps, or say Hail Mary slow enough to think words in between like "not mine, but Thy Will be done Father" and it's like it's intertwining with the main vocal stream. I'll never be able to do it like Father Mark suggests, hence my question... I won't give up my Rosary though, not because it's so not fit for me. It's one of the reasons to do it and try harder, because God rewards the effort, not the results as He said to st. Faustina. Which doesn't mean one can just babble the Hail Marys without trying to do it right, just getting through with it - I agree with father Mark, that this would be rather harmful to a person. Last but not least, I try to know the Bible better, so I can memorize verses and then they jump out at me during Rosary, like the example above, and that's my meditation (plus before or after, cause I like thinking about God so much, I do it anyway).
Wonderful messages father 🤗
A world at prayer, is a world at peace!
1. Pray ROSARY
2. Pray ROSARY
3. Pray ROSARY
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100. Pray ROSARY
Every day holding the ROSARY beads is like holding your Blessed FATHER and Mother's hand with humble and grateful heart.
Mother Mary pray for us and whole the world. Amen
God have Mercy on us and whole the world. Amen
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@@randycouch2769 no one and no one church perfect, because Grace of God we be perfect.
All about Humility, Love, Forgiveness and obedience.
Remember God calling us not to be judge others people but God calling us to be salt and light for the world.
Pray for peace!
God have Mercy on us and whole the world. Amen.
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@Tom Jenkins what are you talking about
@Tom Jenkins you're funny
I have from last June attempted to pray the Rosary prayerfully. It has been a real struggle for me to not let my mind wander. I am getting better at focusing on the mysteries but I have a way to go yet. I am not discouraged. This is a discipline and practice along with a sincere desire to please our Heavenly Father will see ultimate success.
Captain Liberator I myself have no choice. I have to keep trying. Even though I still sin, I am going to persist!
I recently completed the 6 first Saturday devotion Our lady asked us to fulfil at Fatima. She asked us to accompany her and meditate on the mysteries for 20 min. Was difficult at first, but when you go through them, really delving deep, reflecting on the details, it is truly moving. I cried a few times thinking of Our Lords passion, and really feeling compassion, and sorrow for my sins. Thinking how humble, yet powerful the story of our salvation played out. And how the mysteries can be, and are present to us now. Significant and relevant to each and every one of us. Because the story is for your sake, and mine.
the admirable secret of the holy rosary, of Saint Luis Grignion de monfort, its the best book every to read about this
Thank you, I'm still learning to pray the rosary properly and not just getting through the beads! Little by little, thanks!
Sometimes when I pray the rosary my mind is elsewhere. Thank you for this reminder to study the mysteries!
When am really upset and have no idea what to even pray, when I cannot articulate even one coherent thought in my head, it is my prayer. I just wail and groan. It gets like that for me
At the end of the day when I'm completely wiped out, this time with Mary and Jesus is so precious to me. There are times when I alternate a decade with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and some days I can only get through one decade. I do what I can do, and try not to feel guilty about it. This video is timely as I realize I am doing the right thing. If I force myself to just "get through" it I never feel the peace and calmness like I do when I take my time and truly think about the words and visualize the mysteries. I am going to add looking up the Scripture as well, that was a great tip. Thanks very much Father Mark
Matthew 6:6-13 KJVS
[6] But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. [7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. [8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. [9] After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. [10] Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. [11] Give us this day our daily bread. [12] And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. [13] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
correct...use not "VAIN" repetitions.... "VAIN" is important
100% agree. Devotion first, let bots do the mechanical
“Poco a poco vamos a llegar”🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🥰🥰🥰 God Bless you🙏🙏🙏
one thing that absolutely changed my life was praying the 5 decades of the Divine Mercy chaplet after each decade of the rosary.
I love this! Father Mark Mary is part of my family and my Catholic life. Thank be to God for him ❤🙏❤
Eileen, hope you're doing well during this coronavirus pandemic.
Very timely, thank you very much for this. I am praying the rosary again after a decade and I am falling inlove everyday by saying it
I'm new to the family, and when i first started praying rosary i got no idea what it was about! I just recited until i learned the prayers, then i started asking our Lady, how to pray deeper how should i do this. Then what i started doing is imagining in my mind that i am with our Lady during each mystery and that i am seeing our Lord through her eyes and asking her to pray for me, to grow in my prayer life and asking her to pray for my family/friends/the departed ones/my diocese/the whole world then i would recite 10 Hail Mary's etc. It takes me a little longer to do the whole Rosary, but it so much worth it. I love just sitting there and having a mental prayer/conversation with our Holy Mother. Anyways, hope this is helpful for someone. 🙏❤️
*Grandma Coffee Mug* 😂
I have to kind of respectfully disagree. At least through my experience, praying the full rosary everyday even when I thought I couldn't Or new my mind would wander is a gift from God. Just saying those holy words have made me fall much more in love with the gospel and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The 3 young children of Fatima did it, and we are called to.
We should all at least try.
Fatima also got me started on daily rosary. Amazing story.
layman frank when I started to pray the rosary I was amazed at the Apostles Creed. I can only imagine how those utterances polarize the spiritual environment!
And that’s just to begin with!
Just as good as the video is are the comments! Sometimes I use the app on Relevant Radio and pray the rosary. Do others pray the rosary with an app?
Ok Lord...I got it! Your timing is perfect...as always!! ❤
The Marian Era Explained
1 Timothy 4:1
4 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons
The Apparition that calls itself Mary, is either a demon or Satan himself
The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
Promise to Saint Dominic
The Brown Scapular “WHOSOEVER DIES IN THIS GARMENT SHALL NOT SUFFER ETERNAL FIRE.”
- promise of Our Lady to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251
Galatians 1: 6-10
Perversion of the Gospel
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed
Luke 4:8 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and Serve Him only.'"
Isaiah 42:8 "I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my Glory to another or my praise to idols
John 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Please!! Make a video on Divine Mercy!!!
What you are doing is fulfilling the prophecy that Mary would be called blessed by all nations. The Our Father, The Lord's Prayer is answered and is the map of the way of Jesus. You are putting the Word of God out there. You are using the Sword of the Spirit. The weapon of the Whole Armor Of God. All of God's words are powerful. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word the proceeds out of the mouth of the Father Past, Present and Future. Know that there is POWER in every single word. Fantastic. Check out the Whole Armor Of God. signed Betty Hoffman. Write the Pope and ask him to do what Blessed Mother said to do for peace. Consecrate USSR!
I love to walk and pray the rosary. I get into a zone and it is amazing!
I do the same ...GOD bless!
I pray the rosary but not the 5 mysteries of faith, I don’t have time Everyday. I work from 6:30-3:00 deli and 3:00-11:00 doorman. By the time I get home, it’s 12:00 am
The immaculate Catholic Church glorifies GOD’s infallible Word Amen
# AskAscendion. Dear Father...i need help with the rosary..cause not sure ,and feel confuse.. i want to know the clear picture of the rosary..why the ròsary have different types ?some saying Fatima rosary and some are not..is that the rosary have different ways of praying?and why i see some people pray rosary at 3 o'clock.?thank you
One dislike must have been from a Baptist. 😉
Hahaha!!!!!
LOL
Grainexpress it’s Bergolio, he hates catholic tradition
Find a Muslim woman then convert her to Christ..
@@gadoladonai8296 Hahaha !!! That's what I was going to write !