Many might think the praying of the Rosary is outdated. Actually, the opposite is what is more true. Perhaps there is no other time when use of the Rosary is more needed.
What I mean is, today we "think" too much. As Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit of the "knowledge of evil" as well as the "knowledge of good", so our era believes the solution to everything is that we need only "think" more to find our solutions.
But too often the busy-ness of our minds is what creates our problems, even our mental problems, in the first place! Thus we go to "thinking" to solve the problems which thinking creates.
God means for us to meet Him in quietness. Saying the prayers of the rosary, and that, with careful attention to the words we speak, removes each of us far from the whirlpool and spiraling stress of racing thoughts. The peace and strength we find after thus honoring God with thoughts of Him, is amazing and sometimes difficult to explain. So often the thing we search for in making sense of our lives is well within our grasp all along without our knowing it.
What I mean is, today we "think" too much. As Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit of the "knowledge of evil" as well as the "knowledge of good", so our era believes the solution to everything is that we need only "think" more to find our solutions.
But too often the busy-ness of our minds is what creates our problems, even our mental problems, in the first place! Thus we go to "thinking" to solve the problems which thinking creates.
God means for us to meet Him in quietness. Saying the prayers of the rosary, and that, with careful attention to the words we speak, removes each of us far from the whirlpool and spiraling stress of racing thoughts. The peace and strength we find after thus honoring God with thoughts of Him, is amazing and sometimes difficult to explain. So often the thing we search for in making sense of our lives is well within our grasp all along without our knowing it.
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