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01/10/2017 10 Reasons Why the Rosary Is Powerful

Fr. Dwight Longenecker
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2017/01/ten-reasons-rosary-powerful.html

Saints say it. Popes say it.

The Rosary is a powerful weapon against evil.

But have you stopped to figure out why?

Here are ten reasons why the Rosary prayer is the most powerful and how you can use it most fully.


1. It Engages Your Will  –

The human will is powerful because it is a sharing in God’s power.

He gives us the will to choose to do good or choose to do evil, and that will, in and of itself, is a powerful weapon in the spiritual realm.

That’s why Satan seeks to enslave us and incapacitate our will through addictions.

When our will is joined with God’s will through prayer we literally tap into God’s own power source.


2. It is Physical –

God has given us bodies and souls.

Angels–and this includes demons–are purely spiritual creatures.

They have no physical form and are therefore inferior to us.

When we pray the rosary we use our bodies.

We hold the rosary beads which include a crucifix.

If possible we should adopt an intentionally physical posture for prayer either walking, kneeling or sitting attentively.

If possible we should also use other physical sacramentals like blessed candles, holy water, maybe some incense and holy pictures or statues.

When we use the physical aspects of prayer we are using tools that we have and which Satan does not have.


3. It Engages our Linguistic Functions – 

God has not only given us bodies. He has given us physical speech. We have tongues to praise him. We have vocal chords and breath to speak and sing.

Satan does not have the means of physical speech. Animals do not have physical speech. Humans do.

Therefore we should pray the rosary out loud moving our lips.

This engages our physical bodies and our intellect through which we are able to produce speech.


4. It Involves Our Imagination –

The non-verbal part of our mind communicates through imagery.

We not only think with language, but we think in pictures.

Satan likes to captivate our imagination through sinful images.

These images can be communicated through internet, television or any visual stimulus, but he also want our imagination to dwell in images that are destructive.

So our imagination can be used for lustful fantasies, violent imaginations against our enemies or indulging in negative memories.

When we meditate on the mysteries of the rosary we engage that channel of our mind in a positive and purifying way.

Meditating on the mysteries therefore cleanses our imagination and engages and uses the imagination to promote God’s will rather than evil.


5. The Rosary Occupies the Language Facility —

In order to allow the imagination to be properly cleansed through meditation it helps to switch into imagination mode.

Unfortunately our minds usually function in a linguistic mode–using speech and speech concepts to think through problems, think about the future, plan what comes next etc.

By praying the rosary this channel of our mind is occupied and the doors can open to the imagination and what I call the “sub linguistic” parts of our being.


6. The Sub Linguistic is Accessed – 

Much of our soul work takes place in the realm of emotions. Emotions are not linguistic nor are they imaginative.

They are just raw emotions. We feel angry. We feel rage. We feel lust. We feel bliss. We feel peace.

True emotions are irrational and unexplainable.

The emotional area of the soul is also the area where we have our foundational experiences.

In the mother’s womb and in the pre-linguistic stages of life we experience life in an irrational and emotional way.

As we pray the rosary and the linguistic channel is occupied and the imaginative channel is occupied the Holy Spirit can access the sub
linguistic, deep down, raw experiences of our earliest days.

If there are wounds and bad emotional memories there Mother Mary can help heal them.


7. The Healing Mysteries are Applied 

I have written more about how this works in my book Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing but suffice it to say that as we pray the rosary.

The mysteries of Christ’s birth, ministry, passion and glory are opened up and the Holy Spirit applies them to our own inner needs.

Where there are impurities they are purged, where there are bad memories, they are healed.

Where there are wounds, Doctor Jesus and Nurse Mary minister to our needs.


8. Spiritual Warfare is Engaged –

Satan hates the rosary. He hates Mary. He hates the gospel. He hates God. He hates Christ the Lord.

He hates the Lord’s Prayer. He hates the Hail Mary. He hates you.

Every time you pray the rosary, because of what I outlined above, you are entering the territory that he wants to claim as his own.

He wants control over your will. You take that from him. He wants control over your speech. You take that from him.

He wants control over your imagination. You take that from him. He wants control over your emotions and your early life.

You take that from him.


9. The Battle Against Evil in the Word in Opened – 

I have written more about this in my second book on the rosary called Praying the Rosary for Spiritual Warfare. 

Here I can say that in many ways the mysteries of the gospel bring alive Christ’s victory over Satan and by praying the rosary we can apply those victories against Satan’s work in the world.


10. It is Accessible and Easy for All – 

The fantastically amazing thing about the rosary is that God does this very deep healing work in individual lives and in the world in this most accessible and easy way.

No need for long sessions of psychoanalysis or counseling for most people.

Instead ordinary men, women and boys and girls can simply pray the rosary.

All these good things happen even when they are unaware that these deep aspect of praying the rosary are taking place.

It doesn’t matter who–an old peasant woman or a smart college professor, a little child or a busy mom. Billions of Catholics.

All can pray the rosary.

So stop complaining and get busy praying!

waltmoreno

Saying the rosary is something I used to do regularly as a practicing catholic. Since I've become a non-denominational Christian I no longer engage in that antiquated, useless exercise.
Imagine talking to your best friend. How inspired would your best friend be if, instead of telling him what was really on your mind, you repetitiously said the same words over and over to him? He'd probably tune you out after the 3rd or 4th time after he realized that you weren't really "talking to him" but rather mechanically repeating the same words over and over, even if they were inspirational.
The rosary, instead of "talking to God" and telling him what's really on our minds is mechanical, rote, repetition of Hail Marys and the Lord's Prayer. It's a useful tool for catholic priests to dispense as penance for catholics who go to confession but as an effective tool for communicating with God, it's worthless.
Even the Bible says not to pray repetitively. But catholics never put much stock in the bible.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

If you gotta shake beads and have a prayer to a virgin....what kind of God do you worship?

waltmoreno

Amen! We're not supposed to pray to Mary anyway. Or to the saints.

Doc110 Loc: York PA

waltmoreno,

Really, this is how low religiously you have fallen . . .

Try reading my article,

"Do Catholics Worship Mary? No. So Why Do Protestant's Get It Wrong? The Realm of Worship and Sacrifice: Latria, Dulia and Hyperdulia."

Guess you didn't know your Catholic faith very well.

And i differ in my faith and knowledge, than in your fallen-away anti-Catholic knowledge.

Get back in touch with me, when you find the truth.

Doc110

http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-116104-1.html

Doc110 Loc: York PA

Really, this is how low religiously you have fallen . . .

Try reading my article,

"Do Catholics Worship Mary? No. So Why Do Protestant's Get It Wrong? The Realm of Worship and Sacrifice: Latria, Dulia and Hyperdulia."

Guess you didn't know your Evangelical faith and bible very well.


Get back in touch with me, when you find the truth.


Try reading this article and my responses.
Doc 110


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[quote=Dummy Boy
If you gotta shake beads and have a prayer to a virgin....what kind of God do you worship?[/quote]

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Provide any scriptural evidence that claims that Jesus wants you to perform hail mary's to recognize his mother or God ever suggested that a rosary is necessary to conduct prayer.

I don't care what the vatican says, the pope or any of his worthless followers think, what does the bible support...

you lying hypocrite.

Doc110 Loc: York PA

Being ignorant and stupid is no way to go through life . . . hence the name dummy boy . . .

Respond with facts, Facts, FACTs, no Supposition's, Innuendo's, Exaggeration's of your own personal emotional belief's, hypocritical truth's, empty rhetoric devoid of real factual substance and full of regurgitated dendrite compost opinions

Your preconceived evangelical sentiments, are just rude, and obnoxious.

Your faith is dead . . .

Get a new life, stop with the religious bigotry, . . . you just made a fool out of yourself . . .

[quote=Dummy Boy

Provide any scriptural evidence that claims that Jesus wants you to perform hail mary's to recognize his mother or God ever suggested that a rosary is necessary to conduct prayer.

I don't care what the vatican says, the pope or any of his worthless followers think, what does the bible support...

you lying hypocrite.[/quote]

Radiance3

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I pray the Holy Rosary daily in the morning before I get up. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes. It gives me peace and assurance that what I do daily is within God's guidelines. I feel happy.

The focus on praying the Holy Rosary is worshipping God. Start with the sign of the Holy Cross, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit". Then the Nicene Creed. Starts with I believe in God, the Father Almighty", then the "Our Father", then the Hail Mary, which is honoring the mother of God.
Focus and meditate. Invest time with the Lord everyday, and thank him for the new day. You'll be a lot happier.

The world now is populated by various kinds of people. Most have forgotten God, or believe in other gods. By their actions, they focus on how to feel good, or get high, using other' peoples labor. Most of the kids in schools think that they are entitled to everything they need. They marched on protest, and blame those who've worked and succeeded. Their main capital is "race, or discrimination". By statistics, regardless of race, those kids who believe in God, and who don't complain of race and discrimination have greatly succeeded.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:10 The Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonian.
KJ- For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

May the blessings of God be with you all!

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

....Oh, in addition to being a rude Catholic...you're an uninformed Catholic. Thanks for confirming your ignorance. I can be as ignorant about Catholicism as required, since I'm not Catholic nor was raised Catholic.

Where's your proof?

Radiance3

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It is not worth putting up with this low life people.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Want proof? Where are your saints? First, before you answer, you'd better check exactly what it requires for a Christian to be recognized and canonized a saint.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Roman Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans all pray in their liturgy every Sunday that we (the Church, The Body of Christ) may all be One. Do you? Who'se ignorant? Who'se intolerant?

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

The kind of God who personally selected His own mother for His Incarnation is the God we worship. If you can be offended by someone disrespecting your mother what do you think Jesus would feel by anyone disrespecting His mother?

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

I know, he's such a jerk.