Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today, I want to explore the rosary. Because the rosary is perhaps the most practiced Catholic devotion outside of Mass and the sacraments. And it's been suggested as part of your regular prayer life by many of the great saints, people like Padre Pio, Louis de Montfort, Therese of Lazzou, as well as countless popes. So it goes almost without saying that Catholics hold the rosary in high esteem. and many non-Catholics,

on their hand. of Lazoos, as well as countless popes. So it goes almost without saying that Catholics hold the

rosary in high esteem, and many non-Catholics, in their hand, find the rosary strange, maybe

unbiblical, even pagan. So today, I want to look at some objections to the rosary, raised by Daniel

Martiz, a non-denominational Christian who has a YouTube channel called DLM Christian Lifestyle.

And he's got a very popular video against the rosary. He's got more than 300,000 views at the time of this recording. So it really seems to resonate with people. And he makes several arguments against the rosary, chiefly, that is unbiblical because, number one, it's not found in scripture. Number two, it's too repetitive. Number three, it's too

focused on Mary, and number four, is too physical. So I want to address each of those objections in turn,

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and keeps the production quality as high as it is. So I just want to say thank you to everyone who is currently supporting and if you're not yet and would like to, you can do that over at shamelessjo.com. And with that, let's get into Daniel's first objection. Namely, the word rosary is never mentioned in the Bible. and since scripture doesn't tell us that we have to pray the rosary,

it's therefore wrong to pray it.

Now, I need you to listen very carefully because this is very important.

Nowhere in Scripture does it say you have to pray with the rosary, so it's unbiblical.

Ironically, Daniel wrote a nearly six-minute-long prayer of his own that he says we should start our day with.

We don't find his prayer in the Bible. So is it wrong to write your own original prayers or not?

And if it's not wrong, well, is it wrong to pray a prayer that somebody else wrote? Or is it okay when Daniel does it and bad when Catholics do it?

Well, even more ironically, the prayers that Daniel's

complaining about are actually drawn from Scripture, but we're going to get to that shortly.

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