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"REPETITIOUS PRAYER" BY LYNETTE HUGHES
REPETITIOUS PRAYER
BY LYNETTE HUGHES
Catholics often are offended when confronted with praying repetitious prayers like the Rosary contrary to What Jesus said in Matthew 6:7. There are times in our life where we will want to keep asking God for something; but, that is certainly not the same as repeating the same repetitious, religious words over and over.
Jesus gave his disciples the Lord's Prayer as an example. He did not mean for it to be prayed repetitiously, or as a ritual. He set it as a model or example of how we should pray. It teaches us who to address our prayers to; our heavenly Father [Not Mary or Jesus]. It tells us to begin our prayers with praise, to pray for God’s kingdom and will to be done here on earth, to pray for our daily needs, to confess our sins and ask forgiveness and forgive others as He has forgiven us, and in conclusion we ask God to protect us from Satan’s temptations and his evil attacks. The Lord’s prayer is a pattern of how to pray, not a prayer we are to memorize and repetitiously recite back to God.
Is there anything wrong with memorizing the Lord’s Prayer? Of course not! However, it was never meant to be recited verbatim. God wants to hear prayer that is born out of love and comes from your heart. He wants to communicate with you as a father to his son or daughter.
Catholics who pray the rosary by reciting repetitious prayers to Mary are disobeying the words of Christ on two accounts. He said when you pray, pray to the Father (Mat. 6:9). And secondly, He said, "When you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words" (Mat. 6:7).
The practice of the pagans was to recite long-winded repetitive prayers. God is not concerned with how many words we pray, flowery expressions, or formulaic mantras. Our prayer should be short, simple prayers that come from our heart; prayers like that of Elijah on Mount Carmel and less like the prolonged repetitious prayers of the prophets of Baal in 1st Kings 18:25 - 39.
