How to Pray a Better Rosary

hey everybody today we're going to put the fun in rosary fundamentals enjoy [Music] i am father mark mary with the franciscan of friars of the renewal and this is ascension presents this this video is for those who are just beginning to learn how to pray the rosary or those who may be saying the rosary but who are never really taught some of the fundamentals of how to pray we're never given permission to lay a real deep foundation in in the rosary and in the mysteries and just we're very much like encourage like hey you got to start saying the full rosary every day and maybe picked up some bad habits along the way to help us understand this problem that i've observed to myself and in others i want to look actually at like this this analogy the image of weightlifting it's a really common thing if you were ever into weightlifting like hey i don't sacrifice form don't sacrifice form for weight and and personal trainers they're always like hey form form form form and the reason for it is they know this human tendency to want to be able to perform at a higher level than we actually are able to and to get to that higher level we sacrifice form for example as a young man it's really common for somebody to want to be able to curl more weight than they can do with good form by rocking etc and they're sacrificing form because they want to for themselves or for others give the impression of being able to lift more to do more to be stronger than they actually are and this is problematic right because it can lead to injury because it can lead to actually not building the muscles you think and in the in the exercise scenario this is this is dangerous because it can lead you to either like getting hurt or just to not really working the muscles you think you're working and this is just a really common human experience which also applies and spills into often the way in which we can we can approach the rosary i know as a young man the first thing i really learned about the rosary is like hey you got to pray a rosary every day but nobody really taught me the fundamentals and nobody really gave me permission to slowly start to pick up this habit of praying the rosary and so i was trying to pray the rosary and trying to say the whole thing but at the sacrifice of form and the bad fruit of it for me was that i really never developed a taste for the rosary as a young man it was just sort of these prayers that i said this this routine i had to do this thing i had to check off the to-do list of like holy devotions but it never really connected me to our lord or a lady it never really connected me to the mysteries of jesus's life and i know this was a struggle for me but i think it's also a struggle for many of us especially for those of you who might just be starting to pick up and develop the habit of the rosary for the first time it's likely you've heard you've got to be saying a rosary it's likely you've even been saying hey you got to be saying like a rosary every day well you're probably not hearing is like here's how we can do it or i want to give you permission to build up the muscle i want you to i want to give you permission to really lay a foundation to learn the form and and to take your time to building up even to praying a full rosary right because the end is for you to really love the rosary and i live with some brothers who are praying the rosary constantly whenever they're walking they have a rosary in their hand because it so deeply connects them to our lord and our lady and that's what i want for you that's what i want for you so here's a game plan here's a proposal about how you can kind of get back to the fundamentals or start with the fundamentals first of all think about how how much do you want to be saying the rosary for some of you maybe like right now you really want to pray one rosary day for some of you maybe it's okay i really would love to be saying three rosaries in a week right the goal the goal is certainly at least to be getting to one a day but it's okay if that's not where we are it's okay if we work our way up to it so so the proposal is this okay number one think about how much you want to be saying the rosary and what my proposal now for you is this is like for example if i want to be praying one rosary day but i haven't really developed the good habits i don't really have good form i'm just saying you know the prayers um my proposed use is like carve out 15 minutes um a day right usually it takes about 15 minutes to pray rosary so okay i'm going to take 15 minutes a day devoted to developing the habit of praying the rosary and what i would say is this for 10 minutes dedicate your time to reading and praying with the scriptures which are linked to one of the mysteries for example for the annunciation for the enunciation get out luke's gospel and read that account and pray with it and sit with it for at least 10 minutes and after you've sat with it for 10 minutes pray one decade of the rosary meditating upon reflecting back upon what you just read what you just prayed with and consider that 15 minutes your rosary for the day again if you're trying to do maybe one one a day the next 15 minute period go ahead and look at the second joyful mystery the visitation again read luke's gospel spend 10 minutes with it and then conclude your time of prayer with one decade of the rosary and by going about it in this way what we're going to be doing is we're really going to be assimilating the mysteries we're really going to be soaking in the word of god we're going to be just getting good form and so take your time with this right for 10 minutes a day meditate with the the mystery with scripture conclude with one decade of the rosary all right so then after you've kind of you've prayed like this through all of the mysteries maybe done it twice you might actually want to take some time and do this as well with the hail mary and with the our father again just just dedicating some time to really understanding these prayers so that as time goes on and you start to being able to do more than just one mystery at a time in this 15-minute span as you begin to try and to start saying the rosary not just in the chapel but but while you're driving while you're on the train while you're grocery shopping like the more that you've laid this foundation the better your form is sort of the higher you're going to be able to build the more spontaneous is going to be your capacity to really pray the rosary and and to have it connect you to our lord and our lady even as you're going about daily tasks and so again the summary is the summary is this don't sacrifice form with the rosary because you feel some sort of insecurity or duty to start saying a full rosary meaning all of all of the decades all of the our fathers and hail mary's once a day immediately don't don't fall into that trap at the cost of forming bad habits which in the long run could be dangerous and could lead you to having a distaste for the rosary take your time lay the foundation really immerse yourself in in the scriptures particularly these mysteries of the rosary take some time to really sit with the prayers particularly the our father and the hail mary and slowly but surely build up this habit the goal is to fall really deeply in love with our lord to develop a real filial relationship with our lady as mother to just sit with and soak with the mysteries of our lord's life death and resurrection and to have the rosary be a prayer which can accompany us for our whole lives and because we want to build the devotion so high let's make sure we begin by laying a really firm foundation um thank you so much for watching hope this is helpful if you want some more fundamentals about how to pray the rosary we got another video on ascension which i feel pretty good about as well but hopefully this leads you deeper into the rosary it's relationship with our lady and our lord thank you so much for watching look forward to being with you again next week remember we are pilgrims on this earth somos peregrinos poco poco little by little famous ceo we're going to make it god bless you

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Length: 8min 8sec (488 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 11 2021