Pray the Rosary

Extract

Time and again we have been urged, as individuals, in our homes, in our schools, and everywhere, to say the Rosary. Surely we must now begin to put the stress on praying the Rosary. We are concerned about the very soul of this devotion, and so about the immensely more important part of any Rosary. As the soul is always more important than the body, so too meditation of the Rosary should always have priority over any merely material recitation of the beads. This should be obvious to all. Yet how often do we slip into careless ways of talking. It is very easy for a priest to tell you, ‘for your penance, say a decade of the Rosary'. Or, perhaps, two friends may be passing a church, and one will say to the other: ‘Let's drop in and say a Rosary…’