I Prayed the Rosary for the First Time
A new random Catholic friend/acquaintance I met online suggested that I pray to the Rosary as I was asking how I deal with loneliness. This has been a bad losing-friends week and since being single again, I have much less friends. She also suggested that everything happens for a reason and we don’t understand the purpose, which I totally agree with. Yet, it doesn’t help my situation any…
So, I decided to pray to the Rosary. Not knowing how, other than skimming online documents, I used a PDF document I found online at newadvent.org on “How to recite the Holy Rosary”. I followed it. I looked up and read the bible passages.
Something unexpected happened. During the course of saying the “Hail Mary…”s I had tears build up. I’m still not sure why, as it seemed to be happening on it’s own. I also felt renewed and I really did meditate on the meaning of what I was saying… especially since it isn’t second nature to me yet.
I didn’t have any sort of great revelation or great sobbing, so no theatrics or entertainment to read about there. What did happen that I didn’t see coming was that it became more than just the physical act of moving along the Rosary with my finger and thumb, more than just reading and saying phrases over and over. It just because something more.
I will definitely be praying to the Holy Rosary again. Much thanks to my friend/aquantance for helping me.
Here’s my the Rosary I got from giftscatholic.com (I like the wood and simpleness of it, nothing fancy or expensive). I still have some to create for rosaryarmy.com and will keep one for myself as a ‘rugged’ one to take with me everywhere.
