{"id":31281,"date":"2017-10-05T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=31281"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:46:06","slug":"7-surprising-things-that-happen-when-you-pray-the-rosary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/7-surprising-things-that-happen-when-you-pray-the-rosary\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Surprising Things That Happen When You Pray the Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

If you ever find the rosary hard to pray, or hard to commit to regularly, read on to find out our seven most surprising things that happen in your life when you start to pray the rosary more often!<\/p>\n

1. You Become Less Selfish<\/b><\/h3>\n

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You know how it is when you love someone or something with all your heart, and you feel so passionate about it or them, but it is sometimes just\u00a0so hard\u00a0<\/i>to act on that love? That is how I feel about the rosary. I love it and I love that we were given it as a gift. I truly believe in its power. But laying time aside to pray it? That requires me to sacrifice and give up some time and energy for\u00a0myself,<\/i>and ponder on the Mysteries instead. Praying the rosary helps re-orientate ourselves to Christ, who can lift us out of ourselves and our sin, and teaches us again and again the discipline of refraining from indulging our selfishness.<\/p>\n

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2. You Become More Disciplined<\/b><\/h3>\n

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The more you pray the rosary, the more you\u00a0want\u00a0<\/i>to pray the rosary. The grace of discipline is forged in those times when you quieten your mind to concentrate, pray even when you are tired, or switch your phone for your rosary before bed. These acts of discipline affect\u00a0all<\/i>\u00a0areas of your life. Discipline is like exercise, you can\u2019t just become a marathon runner on your first run. But you can build up to it bit by bit over time. The rosary helps you make those baby-steps towards making God a greater priority in your life. Even those days (or seasons) when you\u2019re not feeling the emotional or spiritual consolations, sticking to the Rosary is a wonderful way to remain faithful, fulfill a duty to God and Our Lady, and follow a \u201clittle rule\u201d in your day.<\/p>\n

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3. Our Lady Reveals Insights<\/b><\/h3>\n

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I know that if you have suffered from a bleak introduction to the rosary as a child, perhaps being forced to pray it by well meaning teachers or parents, and associate it with sheer boredom, it can be hard to understand how the rosary can offer anything beautiful or transcendent\u00a0while actually praying it,\u00a0<\/i>even if you do believe in its powerful after-effects. But I really believe that in praying the rosary often, hidden depths are revealed. In mediating on each of the Mysteries regularly,\u00a0Our Lady, with Christ, has something to give you.\u00a0<\/i>Perhaps it is an insight into an area of your life that you are struggling with. Perhaps it is an epiphany over a particular moment in Christ\u2019s life that will really help you. Maybe it is the experience that can happen deep in prayer that you feel you are actually there in the moment of the Mystery itself. There is always something new to be explored, and always something good to be revealed.<\/p>\n

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4. You Have More Courage<\/b><\/h3>\n

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When you start to place your trust and your life and even your heart into the hands of Mary through the rosary, you begin to understand how eminently practical, simple and full of solutions she is. She only wants to get us to Christ, and she loves us so much, with the true tenderness of a perfect mother, that we do her a great honour when we give her our problems. Courage begins to burst forth in a life that is always turning again and again to Mary to ask her help and to trust that she will provide. You can have huge amounts of courage when you know that Mary is by your side!\u00a0St Maximilian Kolbe said: \u201cI see Mary everywhere. I see problems nowhere.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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5. Your Day Proceeds Calmly<\/b><\/h3>\n

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This is what one of our authors said about praying the rosary daily: \u201cIt makes my whole day more peaceful, like Mary just is hanging around battling back the bad stuff. Things fall into place easier. I\u2019m more aware of God\u2019s presence.\u201d Praying the rosary doesn\u2019t wipe out suffering in your life, but it\u00a0does\u00a0<\/i>give you a much stronger weapon to battle it with.<\/p>\n

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6. You Get An Extra Awareness Before the Moment of Temptation<\/b><\/h3>\n

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One of the\u00a015 Promises of the Rosary<\/a>\u00a0is that: \u201cit will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.\u201d In my experience, when I have prayed the rosary often, I find that the moment before I sin slows down. By that I mean, if I want to procrastinate or gossip for example, I don\u2019t do it automatically. I recognize that those actions begin with a conversation in my head. I have more of an awareness of the temptation before the action, and there is more time for me to consider whether I want to actually do it or not. And in praying the rosary, I start to see my life through a shared perspective with God, and I begin to see what He wants for me is good, and I want it too.<\/p>\n

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7. You Start to Live Out the Incarnation<\/b><\/h3>\n

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The power of the rosary lies in its simplicity. It is so deceptively simple that it can seem stupid to the intelligent mind. So often we think that we need to find complex, clever, rocket-science-type solutions to solve our complex, clever, rocket-science-sized problems. We stare into the abyss of our issues and wonder how we will find the fix to such a gaping wound. We don\u2019t need to. God came to earth as a tiny, weak and helpless baby born into poverty. The rosary, so deceptively simple that it can be prayed in any circumstances, is the most power weapon of prayer that we have. Excerpts from\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Ruth Baker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families\u2026that cannot be solved by the Rosary.\u201d Sr.\u00a0 L\u00facia of Fatima.<\/i><\/p>\n

That\u2019s our seven gifts that come from praying the rosary regularly, but there are infinitely more! What is your eighth? Share in the comments below!<\/b><\/p>\n

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