I’ve come to the Rosary as a new convert…I’m only 18 months old, and as an ex-Protestant all in can say is that the Rosary is the most wonderful powerful thing I’ve ever known. I couldn’t imagine my daily life without it.
same!!!! I just can to the church in February, confirmed mid September. and during Lent God challenged me to pray the rosary every day. now I crave it.
the graces from the rosary are incredible. its a long story, but when i got to doing the entire 4 mysteries every day, the grace Mary brought me was like a nuclear bomb going off. demons and obsessions and desire for sin evaporated. no fanfare, no theatrics. just one second they were there tormenting me and the next they were gone. Mary is the sweetest most loving mother. the rosary is my favorite thing on earth now.
“He was aware of ME at every point in His life and is STILL aware of ME here in the now” Imagining Jesus suffering on the cross thinking of ME brings tears to my eyes. My Lord and My God!
Certainly can help you focus when you receive Communion. I love putting myself into Jesus' life on earth (The Eternal Now). From the little baby in Bethlehem, with Mary and Joseph to the Ascension. 😊Just a bystander, usually feel a bit unworthy.
When I first considered returning to the Catholic Church I didn’t know where to start. Going to mass was still too intimidating. So I began with the rosary and it was the most welcoming, inspiring and powerful place to begin. Now I find any fallow moment as an excuse to pray a decade ❤
Thanks Father Columba, I LOVE your channel. I am currently in RCIA. I was raised protestant. It took me 66 years of wrestling with God to find Catholicism. I pray the Rosary every night using Bishop Barron’s videos for the mysteries. Thank you! Mark Indianapolis
Father, I am fairly certain that I am squealing at a pitch that only dogs can hear. This completely changed how I view the rosary! I am so excited to give these steps a go! Thank you.
I drive OTR so I've got some time available. Typically I pray 15 decades and depending on distractions it takes most of my day. I add a lot of extra prayers between mysteries and for each decade I verbally contemplate the Scripture that I know associated with the particular decade then add my own petitions. It's a bit of a process that used to aggravate me because of the time it takes me but I'm learning to understand more of what I'm doing and occasionally I get brought to tears in my prayers, which I always think is an amazing thing. I feel that even if it's difficult or I'm really tired it's my duty to pray for all the people and things that I pray for. We will be held accountable for our time and I've wasted a lot of it, doing what I shouldn't have. At 50 years old and just starting to really live my Faith I've got some serious praying to do!
I'm 41 and only recently have returned to Our Lady. I have loved her all my life and am relearning the Spanish I used to know as a child because saying the rosary to her and praying that way makes me feel closer to her. I find myself weeping during prayer too and also at all the time I lost with her. But, she has never left me and I know she has been with me, waiting patiently for me to open my heart even after all these decades. I have done so and your comment touched me. We both are on the same journey of discovery and I wish you well on yours. This is a precious gift to be able to feel this love. I will pray for you this afternoon.
As a parent it reached a point in my despair and helplessness I had with such deep struggles , it was unbearable, but then I was lead back to praying the rosary by God and discovered such peace, beauty and relief and connection with Jesus, His mother Mary and God and the Holy Spirit.
Rosary is always calming. I always say to my friends...for me, this prayer is a vitamin...it can be 'medicine' but it's more like vitamin...it's calming somehow...in my case, it can be 2: i feel sleepy but not because i'm bored ( i think, it's because it's too calming...very very calming...)... or after praying, I can't sleep because i'm too energized after praying...😅. and i always prayed this at night that times...so at 11 pm... i'm energized but i don't have anything to do anymore...i thought of sleeping afterwards but becoming excited and full of energy...haha
Father Columba & His Team: if I could give you seventy-seven thumbs up, I would. Biggest thank you. I will start trying it out right now and pass it on to others.
That is a great system of yours. Bless those who downloaded the Rosary as it keeps me on track which is a tremendous help. Thats how I say the 20 mysteries per day. Wonderful.
This is what I do: I put myself at our Mother’s side in every mystery. I wander off now and then, but she always pulls me back on task. 😊 If we are at the Baptism in the Jordan, half of me is in the crowd watching and listening. The other half is at her home with her, and trying to get a grasp of what she was thinking, remembering, and what she thought of what is to come. Weird, maybe, but it works for me in my meditations.
@@ctmcatholic why do you lie and mislead people? are you that Biblically illiterate that you'd rather they follow your nonsense than the Truth of Scripture? please think before posting, Sir.
@@mjsyankee1750 He acquired His humanity from His earthly mother. His Divinity had nothing to do with her. it's always interesting how there is so much focus on a simple human, rather than on Him.
Fr. Columba, you are Our Heavenly Father's Instrument for the good of His people and your brother & sisters who Love & appreciate you. Much love & Prayers to & for you. ✨️🙏✨️
How lucky you are that you actually got to see the Rosary being prayed on any kind of regular basis. My grandmother had a rosary (which I have now) and I was always so curious about it but it seemed like she didn’t want to talk about it. I was neve taught about praying the rosary and I grew up Catholic, catholic school etc. Praise Jesus that he called me back to him 2 years ago in a big way. I have so much to catch up on! Thank you for your service to our Lord and Lady! God Bless
Thank you. I have to pray tbe rosary slower. I have anxiety- and it makes me nervous when I try to follow along and people pray too fast. So, I usually end up praying it on my own.
I’ve thinking about a condensed rosary so that I will contemplate the mysteries at least when I’m needing it most: when I’m too selfish ish to devote the time. That way it will at least give the Lord a place to start working on me again. I’m a real fixer upper I’m afraid.
@Animula I think the Dominicans only say the first part, and skip "Holy Mary..." Also JPII substituted the creed for "Oh God come to my assistance, Oh Lord make haste to help me"
Yo Fr Columba...I saw you in a video celebrating Fr Roch Greiner...the music was awesome. He led a Lenten mission at my godmother's parish during the pandemic...I am so thankful for you 2 along w fr Malachy and all the CFR's. My great grandfather was a 3rd order Franciscan in Zacatecas Mexico around the early 1900's...love you guys...VCR!
I am very new, still learning, but the rosary pulls me up out of my own internal troubles. It has been a saving grace and I feel clean after praying/contemplating.
Thank you Fr. Columba, what a beautiful reminder that God is outside of time and space and Jesus’ birth is as much in the now as ever. So is his crucifixion which I shall recall also, as he suffered for the whole human race, he suffered in a way for my failings today. And in the moment when I avoid the near occasion of sin…Lord Jesus let it be more often! And if there were anyone that can lead us closer to her son it is his mother! Ave Maria!
Thank you so much for this. I have always struggled with the rosary and connecting to Mary. Now I am learning little by little each night. Despite trying to pray each bead with my heart, last night I managed to fall asleep during it but when I woke up, rosary still in hand, I felt our Mother's heart looking down on me with sweetness and love. :)
Hi Father: I can completely relate to your troubles with saying the rosary. I have always been devoted to Our Lady (even when I fell away from the Church in my 20's) - but the rosary has never done it for me. Remarkably, the psalms are the same way. Friends and family rave about the rosary and reading the psalms (as a part of the Office) ... but I don't get it. In fact, I'm 56 and prayer has always been generally pretty dry/desolate for me. But, as an Irishman with roots in Cork, I am determined to give this a go (persistently). Thank you for your help!
Glad it was helpful. We made an episode on desolation which you might find interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aep30AHYKHY.html God bless you!
Thank you! I had to laugh when you said about the way the Irish pray the Rosary and over lapping 🤣 exactly what I heard my relatives do growing up,! One Hail Mary could be said in about 7 seconds. But in all seriousness… thanks for your honesty. I struggle with it, but I have the desire to pray it well.
Haha, it’s a laugh alright, perhaps not something to imitate but there are often good intentions behind the speedy prayers 😂 Glad you found the video helpful!
O my goodness, thank you so much Father, this has been a signal grace, just got through 4 Rosaries today and some of what you describe is in the Book of Heaven in relation to eternity and how we can access his love and grace in every instant and repair him and console him too for all the evils of humanity, revelations to Servant of God Luisa Picaretta on the gift of living in the Divine Will, Jesus holds us all in his mystical body as does our Lady in her immaculate heart and like keeping a car engine going constant prayer brings us into the grace of living in the Divine Will which is just so out of this world I would reccomend everyone read it and also the Flame of Love Rosary blinds Satan, given to Elizabeth Kindleman, thank Our Lady when you see the power of this Rosary on the evils in your life.😇
The Divine Will is listed as a heresy on the ewtn website. I heard her cause was sent to the Vatican but I have always had doubts about her writings. She asserts that we all have the divine will in us but I would dispute that since we all have limited vision in our human state. However, I wish you peace that comes from the gospel.
Wow! What you said about Jesus pouring love to us right now really resonated with me!! That really got me. Being raised a Catholic I can certainly relate to the boringness of prayers, etc. And I'm 68 so I am pretty old school. LOL Boston, Irish Catholic, I hear ya!. I feel kind of weird talking to a father on youtube, haha But my spiritual growth through the years has taken me down all kinds of rabbit holes, new age, wicca, just a dabble when I was young, etc. But I have come full circle. I've started attending Mass because I want to and I feel so at peace when I am there, I "avoided" the Rosary as a kid, boring boring boring! I must have known it at some time but I can't remember it. But now I know it is very powerful and I have always had a connection, or love, or reverence, for Our Mother, that never changed. I;m picking up my beads and saying it tonight! So glad I found your channel, just subscribed.
Just this past Monday, I decided to commit to praying 4 Rosaries a day. One driving to Mass in the morning. One after Mass with community. One driving home. One on a walk outside. You just confirmed what Jesus asked of me. I hope you come to the Newburgh, NY friary one day. Many of us would love to meet you in person.
I committed to this a couple years ago, the entire 20 mysteries every day. It has been a total blessing, to go through all of Jesus’ life every day. Have you watched Gabiafterhours RU-vid’s? He got me and many others to do this. The Rosary is amazing.
Great talk Father. Some can say something in a few minutes that sticks indelibly in the mind. This talk was one of those. I use the downloaded Rosary to pray with as it keeps me on track for the 20 mysteries. Sometimes I wonder if Our Lord or Our Lady could possibly be pleased with my wandering mind but I plod on saying it. Onwards and upwards. No going back. God bless.
So happy I found this, I've always found the Rosary painful, but much less so when I say it at top speed on the inhale and exhale (my head mustn't get a word in edgewise). I'm American with Irish ancestry and I'm glad to know my Irish relatives pray the way I do
I appreciate this video as a mother who prays the rosary daily with my children. I see that they don't quite understand why we pray it and what it means other than just words being recited. I needed this video to help my eldest son whose 12.
I never have a problem with wanting to pray. I always do, but there IS a resistance that comes and often times its during. It makes me extremely tired, or lose focus, and it can be frustrating. But in that frustration I coach myself to "Keep going." By this time I am not even saying the Rosary for me anymore. I am saying it solely because God asked it of me... Because for me it would be easy to just give up, stop saying it and try again tomorrow.... so I push and push and make it to the end. And I am exhausted, but I feel like I won a battle of sorts... like "Ha AH! I win!" lolol I feel a lot of spiritual battles happen when I pray.... I have A.D.D. also.. so lack of focus is a cross in my life... so it might be feeding off that... but I want GOD to be the most important focus... so I struggle through anyways.... I am not bragging.... just kind of wondering if anyone else has these struggles? and also wondering if I am doing that right? I mean, I don't want to stop praying.. God doesn't want me to stop praying, the only one that would want me to stop.. is that eternal sore loser. So... it is good to resist right? Anyways.... Thank you for this.. I am going to try to pray more decades more often. I did to think how can people say so many... but if I say a decade at a time... yeah.. that sounds more logical. God Bless!
Yup. Also ADD and often laziness hits and I get sleepy when I intend to pray. Or a strong feeling of ‘just skip it this once!’ It can be such a battle often! I’ve been praying a rosary on my way to work every morning for a few years… and that impulse still hits once in awhile.. that sneaky little negative voice- ‘just listen to the news or religious podcast instead’…. I always stick to the rosary, but that negative voice trying to distract me.. Or in the evening if I intend to read the Bible or a saints book.. you tube distracts me. I like long catholic stuff to listen to while I work… but have found it creeping into my ‘non-work’ time. Distractions from and during prayer time hit hard sometimes! I love adoration time.. but still have distractions even while there… odd random thoughts popping in. I try to offer it up to Jesus, through Mary. And if a random person pops in my head, and I notice it, I try to remember to just pray for them.
I have just found this channel and want to thank you for your effort. If in some dark night you should ever doubt if you really inspired and helped somebody with your clips - the answer is "yes".
This puts me in mind of praying the Power Pack -- I forget where and when I heard this term but anytime someone pops in my head or someone asks for prayer, etc, I will say an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be (often silently but the point is right away). I started this practice years ago and it's one of the things that I noticed rolled over into other improvements in my prayer life and also just bringing God into my everyday moments. Daily rosary is more recent and your video today has me inspired. Hopefully I will turn my Power Packs into full decades 😇
Fr. Columba can you give us Fr John Anthony's talk on the Rosary? I would love to listen to it! And thanks for your videos, they are absolutely awesome, I especially love your humorous way of speaking about our faith!
I absolutely love the Rosary. After making many pilgrimages to the Holy Land I've found myself putting myself at those places I've visited but overlay with the intense thought of each mystery at the location it happened and I visited. It makes it even more personal for me.
Quantum Physics points to that exact Truth. While we're all having an individual and separate experience of Life, at the most fundamental level we're all one, there is no separateness. Everything in the Universe is Energy, you, me, Jesus, that bed, table, chair etc etc etc. And it all exists Now.
That’s true… I’ve been good with one rosary a day for a long time now. But Have to try to do at least two rosaries a day now. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
Thank you, Father. A friend who passed recently from cancer told me he struggled with speeding through the rosary. He preferred to slow it way down and allow the prayers to pour over him like God's peace and love.
I tried it, by timing myself. I'm Irish, but I was born in England, so I'm a plastic!! 😂 It took me three minutes. It's good to know, how long it takes me, so I can fit decades in, here and there. Thanks for your tips.
Father, I really appreciate your honesty and your advice for keeping the immediacy of God's love for us in mind as a way of keeping our attention and engagement. You're absolutely right about the 1.5 minutes to pray a decade of the Rosary as being very, very doable.
FABULOUS advice. But Father, HOW could you not pray just ONE Hail Mary for us in Irish????? Just one? Praying in both the in breath and out? In less than a minute?? I thought for SURE you would show us how it's done!! Now I'll never know....😔😉
I pray my rosary in English, so much easier and shorter than in my own language.. also sometimes with the kids we pray in spanish or german.. even Japanese, so much fun 😃
I've prayed the Rosary many times in my life (mainly at church and at funerals) and about a month ago, I returned to praying it personally. The first night, a thunderstorm popped up outside and freaked me out honestly lol there was actually a cool lightning storms after that I'd never seen in my life (think of a strobe party but OUTSIDE!). Recently though, I've been led to pray The Divine Mercy chaplet. Idk if it's okay that I feel more led to pray this more than the actual Rosary, but my goodness it's such an overwhelming time for me when I do.
Thank you Fr Columbia, It is somewhat difficult not to go off track at times and then feel your effort was out of order , lose focus but good advice. And tips.
Thank you for admitting that it can be painful as well as dull on most occasions. I've been waiting for it to get more enjoyable over time and nada. I say a novena daily and it kills me. In fact, when I first began 3 yrs ago, I struggled with envy toward the virgin. Why was she so blessed I wondered? It was awful. Here's my question however, since almost all of the prayers are hail Mary's, isn't it Mary that must be focused on until the end and the Our Father's? I feel I barely get to try to connect to Christ during the long Novena except at the Lord Have Mercy, which is a great crescendo and I do love that bit. On the other hand, the litany of Mary's virtues is like watching paint peel at this point. Help.
Many of us start off that way but end up doing it at our own pace. It’s the difference between passive and active prayer. One we just follow along the other we steer the ship.
I think that I prefer quality over quantity. For me finding the quietest time of day helps. I try to look at as a type of calming meditation. Biship Baren does an amazing rosary. The artwork and narration just draw you in. But yes, in addition to a meaningful prayer time my day can be scattered with a Hail Mary here and an Our Father there and here a why me and there a father bless me and so on and so on..... you get the idea!
That’s a great game plan, and totally agree that having one intentional rosary is better than several if not entered into fully - and that’s exactly the idea, scattering prayers throughout the day as well to keep that distance between us and God as small as possible
