Those who don’t say the Rosary properly

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion of Montfort: “The second big fault a lot of people make when saying the Holy Rosary is to have no intention other than that of getting it over as quickly as possible!…

It is really pathetic to see how most people say the Holy Rosary, they say it astonishingly fast and mumble so that the words are not properly pronounced at all.

We could not possibly expect anyone, even the most unimportant person, to think that a slipshod address of this kind was a compliment and yet we expect Jesus and Mary to be pleased with it!

Small wonder then that the most sacred prayers of our holy religion seem to bear no fruit, and that, after saying thousands of Rosaries, we are still no better than we were before!”

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion of Montfort: “… you should even say your Rosary more slowly sometimes when you particularly find it hard to say.”

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion of Montfort: “Then Saint Dominic had them all say the Rosary very slowly and with great devotion, and a wonderful thing happened: at each Hail Mary that he and the people said together a large group of devils issued forth from the wretched man’s body under the guise of red-hot coals.”

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion of Montfort: “Among Catholics those who bear the mark of God’s reprobation think but little of the rosary (whether that of five decades of fifteen). They either fail to say it or only say it very quickly and in a lukewarm manner.”