Many have heard mention of the Rosary (both here and elsewhere), and may wonder what it is... it is many hundreds of years old, and is not just for catholics.
It consists of the following scriptural prayers:
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The Apostoles Creed https://billygraham.org/answer/what-is-the-apostles-creed/
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The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) https://www.praywithme.com/the-lords-prayer.html
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Hail Mary (Luke 1:28, Luke 1:42, +petitioning Mary to pray for us, both now and while we are dying)
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Glory Be (Doxology/Praising of the Triune God) Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, in now and will be forever, amen.
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Fatima Prayer (optional) Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls into heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy.
The above is the "Body" of the Rosary.
The "Soul" of the Rosary is, during prayer, meditating upon a set of 5 scriptural stories. These are grouped into 4 sets, with focus on Jesus' infancy and childhood, his public ministry, his passion, and his glory. Scriptural Meditation is not easy, but consists of bringing yourself into the scene being meditated on. What is little realized, is Jesus, being God, is aware of every one visiting him in this way -- even at the time of the original event (!)
The rosary is a most powerful prayer against the devil and all enemies of God. Two historical examples (there are others) where the tide was turned by praying the rosary:
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The 1571 Battle of Lepanto - where Christian forces, greatly outnumbered by Muslim naval forces, turned to the spiritual weapon of the rosary, and a powerful wind and storm caused the Muslim ships to be defeated. This staved off Muslim expansion into Europe, keeping Europe Christian, and lasting (arguably), until recent times and the current loss of Christian faith there. https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/history/how-the-1571-battle-of-lepanto-saved-europe.html
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Austria Saved from Communist Rule - in the early 1950's, Austria was occupied, by communist forces, and every indication was they would suffer the same fate as other iron curtain countries. A priest, recalling the Lepanto victory, roused up Austrians -- at least 10% of them, to pray the rosary for deliverance, and on May 13th, 1955, the Russians packed up and left Austria, without a shot being fired. https://choosing-him.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-rosary-frees-austria-from-communist.html
The Lord's Prayer was simply a guideline on HOW to pray, a template, if you will.
Prayer is supposed to be a genuine conversation.
If your boss gave you a template for a business project, and you turned in the template on its due date, without making any changes to it, how do you think that would be received?
Not sure I follow... I get what you're saying about the conversation part, but not so much on the analogy. Are you saying God is offended if we use Jesus' words verbatim, praying the Lords prayer how he taught it? That somehow all our prayers should be ad-libbed/using our own words, to avoid using some 'template'?
I'll throw out something else, which you just reminded me of... and you may know this, but some may not... Which is that not all prayers even require words -- or can be expressed in human language. Many words could be spent on this (ironically), but by way of a short example... there was an old man who came into church every day, and sat quietly, often for hours. One day, someone asked him what he was praying about, and he just said, "I look at Jesus, and he looks back at me". This in fact is a type of conversation, of love, but not of words.
Well I knew somebody would be along soon to tell us what Jesus really would want us to do if he only had your wisdom. Carry on.
And that man was Yashua, who also happens to be the Son of God and the Messiah who died for all of our sins. Read His words for yourself.