Why We Pray the Rosary
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. |
| 0:05.0 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:08.0 | Amen. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's call to mind all those we promised to pray for. |
| 0:18.8 | Mary gave St. Dominic the Rosary, but not exactly the way most people think of it. |
| 0:27.2 | Father Garagoo Lagrange, a great Dominican theologian of the 20th century, explained Dominic's method of the Rosary. |
| 0:30.0 | He relates that at the end of the 12th century, southern France was ravaged by the Albigensian |
| 0:35.9 | heresy, a heresy which denied the infinite goodness and power of God by admitting a principle of evil which was often victorious. |
| 0:45.0 | It was at that moment that our blessed lady made known to St. Dominic |
| 0:50.0 | a kind of preaching till then unknown, which she said would be one of the most powerful weapons against future heirs and in future difficulties. |
| 1:00.0 | Under her inspiration, St Dominic went into the villages of the Albigensians, |
| 1:05.8 | gathered the people, and preached to them the truths of salvation. |
| 1:10.1 | As Mary had taught him to do, he distinguished the different kinds of mysteries, and after each |
| 1:17.8 | short instruction he had ten Hail Mary's recited, and what the word of the preacher was unable to do, the sweet |
| 1:26.6 | prayer of the Hail Mary did for hearts. As Mary promised, it proved to be a most fruitful form of preaching. |
| 1:36.6 | So we pray the Rosary in a new way |
| 1:40.0 | that's actually a really old way introduced by St. Dominic. |
| 1:45.1 | A short teaching from the word of God, followed by meditating or thinking about this instruction |
| 1:51.6 | while we pray the decade, and we do this five times. |
| 1:58.0 | Our Father who aren't in heaven, hollow would be your name. |
| 2:01.0 | Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. |
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