Comments on: Repetition – The Rosary

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:26 +0000

This comment came by way of email from JVANO:

Not sure if you will get this response.
I have 10 children in my 5th grade CCD class.
I have each of them saying 5 Hail Mary’s each day
and told them I would add the rest.. as a group
we could say an entire Rosary each day.
Told them that I say the Rosary each morning.
Last week 50 percent said their 5 Hail Mary’s…
after a discussion this Sunday.. hope that
I will get 100 percent this week.
Love the emails and ideas… keep them coming.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:22:09 +0000

Repetitive speaking and/or moving creates a rhythmic synergy of thought and action that helps us, body & soul, to better learn/ understand/ participate. The Catholic Church isn’t alone in understanding this; yet there are many American Christians who will only accept this truth with respect to, say, spectator sports, but reject it where prayer is concerned.

I blogged about the virtue of catechetical repetition here a few months ago:

http://platytera.blogspot.com/2009/06/repetition-repetition.html

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:50:39 +0000

Jared, thanks for the thoughts…indeed, visualization can really help our young people. I’ll be sure to follow up.

By: Jared Dees

Jared Dees — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:20:12 +0000

I totally agree! Good choice with Jesus of Nazareth. It is the best film out there depicting the crucifixion in my opion. Ben Hur is too classic for 8th graders and the Passion is too gorey. I blogged about this on my blog, last week and had the same thought about integrating video and the rosary: Video + decade of the rosary to help give the students somehting to visualize while we prayed. I like to help students meditate on the mysteries of the rosary through visualization. I'd love to reada follow-up comment on how things went