@saintpodcast: I could write 300 tweets about how when I started to meditate on the mysteries properly (or tried 2 at any rate), the noticeable effects of my Rosaries went thru the roof. Taking proper mental prayer technique and applying it to the mysteries is solid gold.
@JonahofNinevah: The words matter, but very little compared to the mysteries. It's a mantra.
You know ... she tried to teach us that with the first Saturday devotion requirements - gotta meditate on any mystery for 15 minutes while *not* praying the rosary.
@saintpodcast: Didn't mean to sound like a know it all there. I didn't draw that connection until last year.
@JonahofNinevah: Didn't at all. More people need to hear it. I think there's way to much emphasis on saying the Hail Mary's and people don't understand what meditation actually means with respect to the Rosary.
The words mean little. There have been times in which it's taken me a few hours to get through a rosary in adoration because I get lost in the mystery.
Just pick something and go with it, and then something else. Like imagining teenaged John the Baptist & Jesus interactions.
"No, John ... not yet ..."
Or 5 a.m. that first Easter morning. Our Lady communing with her spouse. Kneeling. Increasingly excited. Waiting. Knowing He will first honor His Mother.
One of my favorites is the Annunciation. Have you ever compared it to when the Angel announced Isaac or Samson's conceptions? Sara said his countenance was "awful." (Scary). They were in awe of them. Not Mary. He gives her a title "Full of Grace," and submits and she's not phased.
Greets her like a Queen. One has the impression that he kneels before her, and announces that she'll be pregnant. Is she scared like the others? No ... she just says: "Huh. How's that going to happen? Ok."
She doesn't doubt that it will. She just asks how.
