What exactly is the Rosary?
It’s not Wrote Prayers.
It is a discipline of Meditation on the Word of God.
The Rosary is supposed to be a meditation on the Word of God, not just a rote saying of words while our mind wanders.
There is a short teaching from the Word of God, followed by meditating or thinking about the short instruction while we pray the decade (the Hail Mary’s), and we do this five times.
1. Read or listen to something from the Word of God in scripture, tradition (the writings of the Saints), or the magisterium (the teaching of the Church).
2. Reflect or think about what struck you in order to understand supernatural truth, love God for this truth, and apply that truth to your life. Start by asking yourself, Am I living this or not?”
3. Resolution: Choose something practical and concrete to remember or to do that day based on your meditation to stop a vice and practice the conquering virtue. The resolution is the key to mental prayer.
4. Practice: If we practice a resolution flowing from our meditation every day we will change and become a better person. If we don’t practice a resolution, we will get worse, because unchecked vice makes a person worse, not better.
It does no god when the rosary is prayed in a rushed mechanical way as our minds wander in distraction. Pray the Rosary, meditate on the mysteries. Listen to the Word of God spoken in them…Put into practice the Word of God.
Do not just say the Rosary while your mind wanders. Meditate, to think about the Word of God, and then make a resolution we will put into practice to change our lives.
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