Day 5: Why your Rosary is ineffective
Summary
TLDRThe speaker emphasizes the transformative power of the Rosary, as detailed in 'The Secret of the Rosary' by St. Louis de Monfort. They argue that meditating on the Mysteries of Christ, rather than merely reciting prayers, is essential for spiritual growth. By promoting the Rosary, one can become an instrument of God's glory, doing more good in a month than other preachers in years. The speaker encourages intentional meditation, associating virtues with each mystery, and using physical rosary beads to deepen prayer. They highlight the importance of this practice for personal transformation and evangelization.
Takeaways
- 📚 The script emphasizes the importance of promoting the Rosary as a means to become an instrument of God's glory and word.
- 🔑 It suggests that those who promote the Rosary can achieve more good in a month than other preachers in several years due to the power of meditation on the life of Jesus Christ.
- 🙏 The speaker clarifies that merely reciting the Rosary without true meditation on its Mysteries is not truly praying the Rosary.
- 🌱 The importance of having a deeper spiritual education beyond the elementary level is highlighted to avoid a dry and useless spirituality.
- 👼 The script encourages the audience to meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary, as this is the key to experiencing its transformative power.
- 💧 Meditation is likened to drinking from the water of grace, preparing the soul for the wave of contemplation where God's presence is deeply felt.
- 🔄 The speaker advises to return to meditation if one finds their mind wandering during the Rosary, using the beads as a tangible aid to focus.
- 🤔 The use of intentions tied to the Mysteries and virtues can deepen the meditation and make the Rosary more personal and effective.
- 🕊 The presence of Christ in the Eucharist during meditation on the Rosary is emphasized, suggesting a profound connection between the two.
- 🌟 The script promises that promoting the daily Rosary and meditation on its Mysteries can lead to significant spiritual transformation and good deeds.
- ✋ The use of physical rosary beads is recommended over fingers to avoid distraction and to maintain focus on the act of praying the Rosary.
Q & A
What is the main theme of the book 'The Secret of the Rosary' by St. Louis de Montford?
-The main theme of the book is the promotion of the Rosary as a powerful means to become an instrument of God for His glory and to deepen one's spiritual life through meditation on the Mysteries of Christ.
Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of promoting the Rosary?
-The speaker emphasizes the importance of promoting the Rosary because it can lead to profound spiritual transformation and has the potential to do more good in a short period than other forms of preaching.
According to the speaker, what is the key to truly praying the Rosary?
-The key to truly praying the Rosary is to meditate devoutly on the Mysteries of the life, passion, and death of Jesus Christ, rather than just reciting the prayers without contemplation.
What does the speaker suggest is the consequence of having an elementary level spiritual education without further development?
-The consequence of having only an elementary level spiritual education without further development is that one's spirituality remains superficial, dry, and ineffective.
Why does the speaker believe that praying the Rosary can lead to significant spiritual growth?
-The speaker believes that praying the Rosary leads to significant spiritual growth because it involves meditating on the life of Jesus Christ, which opens one up to the Holy Spirit's touch and prepares them for contemplation and deeper union with God.
What is the role of vocal prayers in the context of praying the Rosary, as per the speaker?
-The role of vocal prayers in the context of praying the Rosary is to assist in meditation by helping to keep time and remind oneself of the significant events in salvation history.
How does the speaker describe the difference between meditation and contemplation in the spiritual life?
-The speaker describes meditation as actively engaging with the Mysteries of Christ, like drinking from a water source, while contemplation is a passive reception of God's presence and grace, akin to being overwhelmed by a wave of water.
What is the significance of using rosary beads according to the speaker?
-The significance of using rosary beads is that they provide a tangible means to focus on the prayers and meditations, preventing the mind from wandering and serving as a reminder that one is engaging in the specific practice of praying the Rosary.
How does the speaker suggest one can enhance their meditation during the Rosary?
-The speaker suggests enhancing meditation by including an intention for a particular grace or virtue associated with each mystery, which helps to focus the mind and deepen the connection to the Mysteries of Christ.
What is the speaker's view on the transformative power of the Rosary when prayed with devotion and meditation?
-The speaker believes that the Rosary, when prayed with devotion and meditation, has the transformative power to change one's life by developing a profound love for God, leading to a willingness to embrace one's crosses and sacrifices for Jesus.
Why does the speaker encourage praying the Rosary in front of the Blessed Sacrament?
-The speaker encourages praying the Rosary in front of the Blessed Sacrament because it deepens the realization that Christ is truly present, and it enhances the meditation on the Mysteries by associating them with the Eucharistic presence of Christ.
Outlines
📿 The Power of Rosary Meditation
The speaker emphasizes the importance of promoting the rosary as a means to become an instrument of God's glory. They stress that true rosary prayer involves deep meditation on the Mysteries of Christ's life, passion, and death, rather than just reciting the prayers. The speaker argues that such meditation can transform one's spiritual life, making it more profound and effective than traditional preaching methods. They also discuss the importance of having a developed spiritual education to avoid a superficial understanding of prayer. The Blessed Mother's repeated calls to pray the rosary are highlighted, along with the transformative effects of meditating on Christ's life daily.
🙏 Enhancing Rosary Meditation with Intentions and the Eucharist
The second paragraph delves into techniques to enhance rosary meditation, such as setting specific intentions related to virtues associated with each mystery. The speaker provides examples, like praying for purity during the scourging at the pillar, to illustrate how this practice deepens meditation. They also suggest using rosary beads instead of fingers to maintain focus and avoid distraction. The paragraph further explores the benefits of meditating in front of the Blessed Sacrament, drawing parallels between the Incarnation and the Eucharist, and how this presence of Christ can transform the meditator. The speaker concludes by encouraging the promotion of daily rosary meditation for its profound impact on spiritual life and personal transformation.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Rosary
💡Meditation
💡Mysteries
💡Spiritual Education
💡Contemplation
💡Grace
💡Intention
💡Eucharist
💡Blessed Mother
💡Bead
💡Transformation
Highlights
Promoting the rosary can make one an instrument of God for His glory and word.
Simple devotion to the rosary can outperform other preachers' efforts in several years within a month.
True rosary prayer involves deep meditation on the Mysteries of Christ's life, passion, and death.
Lack of spiritual growth can keep one's prayer life elementary and ineffective.
The Blessed Mother has repeatedly urged prayer of the rosary for its transformative power.
Meditation on Christ's life prepares one for contemplation and deeper spiritual experiences.
Developing a love for prayer is essential before expecting life changes for Jesus.
Prayer is the foundation of union with God and the starting point for sacrificial love.
The vocal prayers of the rosary serve to facilitate meditation on the life of Christ.
Meditation is likened to drinking from water, while contemplation is like being overwhelmed by a wave of grace.
Using rosary beads helps maintain focus on meditation rather than getting caught up in counting.
Praying the rosary with an intention can deepen the connection to the Mysteries and personal virtues.
Praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament enhances the meditation on the divine presence.
Daily meditation on the rosary Mysteries leads to transformation and a deeper love for God.
Promoting the rosary and its meditation can lead to significant spiritual impact.
The rosary carries many promises that encourage devotion and spiritual growth.
Using tangible rosary beads over fingers enhances the prayer experience and focus.
Encouraging devotion to the rosary can lead to profound spiritual change in a short time.
Transcripts
good morning it's day five I want to
share a little something from the book
The Secret of the Rosary by St Louis de
monford this is concerning those who
promote the
rosary so that he may become God's
instrument for his glory and his word
though simple will do more good in one
month than that of other preachers in
several
years why am I saying this let me repeat
that sentence for you one more time so
that those who promote the rosary hint
hint you should promote the
rosary may become God's instrument for
his glory and his words those simple
would do more good in one month than
that of other preachers in several
years and I know what you're thinking
maybe you've said I've prayed the rosary
it doesn't do anything for me it's so
dry well you might not have prayed the
rosary you might have thought you prayed
the you're not praying the rosary kiddos
unless you're really truly meditating
upon the Mysteries of the life passion
and death of Jesus Christ so unless
you're meditating uh devoutly on the
scoring at the pillar Jesus getting his
flesh ripped off of his body then you're
not praying the rosary and so what
happens when you when we have an
elementary level uh spiritual education
and it never gets built upon after that
then your spirituality stays Elementary
and it's dry and it's useless and it's
it's you know we can make the kids do
this but I don't want to do this on my
own time
so I'm I want to help you because the
blessed mother has appeared Time and
Time and Time Again saying pray the
rosary pray the rosary pray the rosary
pray the rosary it's so powerful look
what what remember that sentence I just
read that you will become God's
instrument for his glory and your words
though simple will do more good in one
month than that of other preachers in
several years why is that because if
it's the meditation on the life of Jesus
Christ then could you imagine you're if
somebody was praying with the life of
Jesus every day for 15 minutes and not
only praying with it meditating upon it
and letting that letting the Holy Spirit
touch them and then entering into
contemplation and the Lord like gives
them a profound sense of their presence
and you build this love of God and you
do this every single day and then so
when something bad happens to you or
you're you know you're going to be faced
with a difficult situation and that day
you you were meditating upon the
carrying of the Cross and what are you
going to do you're going to realize that
this is my cross I am called to carry my
cross after Jesus I am called to embrace
my cross and to love it so what does
that mean that means that I am already
becoming transformed by the word of God
versus I never pray the rosary and so
why several preachers they might say hey
you should be good you should do good
works we but what they don't realize is
that before you can expect anybody to
change their life for Jesus they have to
have developed a love for prayer because
prayer is our Union with God it's the
beginning so that once I I love Jesus
then I will be willing to sacrifice for
him when you love when you love your
girlfriend you love your wife that's
when you're willing to make sacrifices
for them that's what love is it's a
sacrifice all right so there's three
things that I want um you to gain first
and foremost is that the meditation is
everything the vocal prayers are there
only in so far as they help us to
meditate they help us to keep time they
help us to remind ourselves that the
Incarnation the Hail Mary full of grace
that's the anunciation that's those are
the most important times uh in in
Salvation history when the Lord was
announced the Our Father the very words
of Jesus those are so important but
they're there to help us to meditate
what do we have the beads for the beads
are there to help us with the vocal
prayers and then the vocal prayers are
there to help us to meditate upon the
Life of Christ that's what that's what's
important and if you imagine Grace to be
like a
water and meditation is like you
yourself going to the water and drinking
from the water and that's good it's very
good and what that meditation does is it
opens us up and It prepares us for
contemplation and contemplation is when
God himself fills you with the sense of
his presence sometimes he gives you
mystical insights some it it just varies
from time to time and and person to
person sometimes depending on where
they're at in their spiritual life and
it's just it's a free grace of God and
as opposed to you going to the water at
that point point the water it's like
you're drinking water down on the ground
like from a little Pond or puddle and
then all of a sudden a wave huge wave
comes out of the water and just slams
you you just the water's poured all over
you and that's what contemplation is
like but the key is the meditation the
meditation the meditation the meditation
if you're saying the rosary and you
realize you're not meditating whatever
you're thinking about just get it out of
your mind and go back to the meditation
and and the best way to do that I have
found is at each decade to include an
intention for a particular Grace um
especially if that intention has to do
with a virtue that's associated with the
mystery so for example if we're doing
the scourging at the pillar and you ask
the Lord for the gift of Purity say Lord
help me with my Purity oh come on and
what's happening Jesus is getting his
flesh beaten it's it The Virtue is tied
into the mystery so it helps you to
meditate in that way but also let's say
you something is coming some something's
coming up later um you're worried about
it and so you're saying Lord help me to
get through this
afternoon that's my intention for this
decade and what happens so you're
meditating upon the sorrowful uh
Mysteries and the first mystery you're
meditating upon is the agony in the
garden and you're meditating meditating
and you thinking Jesus is so suffering
that's kind of like what I'm going
through what a coincidence and and then
what happens but wait a second Jesus is
visited by the Angel and the angel gives
him Grace and Jesus is strengthened and
all of a sudden when you're meditating
upon that at the exact same time you're
thinking about Jesus being strengthened
like a little flood of Grace comes into
your heart and all of a sudden you are
strengthened and it's like wow um
another tip is if you're in front of the
Blessed Sacrament or and since all of
our devotion should all Mary and
devotion obviously calls us to a Greater
Love Of Christ but where is Christ more
present than in the Eucharist so if
we're also keeping in mind especially if
we're in front of the Blessed Sacrament
when we're meditating this that's going
on occurred to this person who's right
in front of me and this person is God
hiding himself here for me so that I can
be with him and so he can transform me
so you're meditating on the Joyful
Mysteries and the angel Gabriel visits
Mary and the word of God becomes flesh
in her womb inside of her she becomes a
living Tabernacle and you're like wow
this is the same God who is present
inside the Blessed Mother and I going to
experience that exact same Grace when I
say Amen the body of Christ amen let it
be done to me according to your word and
you receive God into you and then you
assimilate yourself into him and the
Blessed Mother brings helps to raise
Christ in you amazing so um how could
you not be transformed if you're
meditating upon these type of things
every day how how of course so if if a
preacher or a teacher or you or an
evangelizer or any common person would
promote the daily rosary and the promote
the meditation upon the Mysteries
amazing amazing things would happen of
course you're going to do more good than
most preachers because most preachers
don't affect change that occurs that's
going to change somebody's life every
day but there's so many promises to the
rosary which we'll discuss later that
make it so much more encouraging to
doing these uh devotions and then
finally I'd like to mention to use beads
use beads they're they're tangible don't
use your fingers if you use your fingers
you're going to be caught too much
thinking uh what number am I on again
why not because there's not 10 of them
but because first and foremost these are
fingers its Essence is fingers you know
that's what they are a rosary is a
rosary they might be beads but put
together in this way their best use is a
rosary so when I look at a rosary I say
oh look I'm praying the rosary look at
my fingers oh look they're my fingers oh
wait a second I'm using them to count
okay and so again let's go back to that
you can do more good in a few months
than several preachers in several years
by encouraging Devotion to the rosary
and of course you cannot encourage what
you yourself do not do God bless you and
God love you day five is good day four
has been good they've all been good and
they're all getting better and I hope
that you stick around because we're
going to learn a lot together Amen in
the name of the father and of the son
and of the holy spirit
amen
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