Some People Mistrust the Rosary and All and Any Meditative Prayer

This Form of Prayer Looks Christian…But Isn’t
Molly Ann Luna | 23 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUEOWQjFOAY

5:14 No, you do not find them in ancient pagan rituals.

We know way too little about Eleusis to say anything for certain except that it was way more physical than just meditation on some kind of mantra.

If you want phrases from the Bible that the actual Church God founded has vetted and approved as truth for this kind of usage, combine Luke 1:28 (minus the intro) with Luke 1:42 (also minus the intro), and if you want something longer and less emptying, add, after "thy womb" the words "Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death"

If you want a break, take after each ten of these a praise on the Holy Trinity and then before each ten of these Matthew 6:9 to 13 (minus the intro).

It's called the Rosary.

As for known ancient pagan rituals, they weren't mantras. For the same year as Jesus spoke Matthew 6:7, where the Greek hasn't the word "thrallein" which means repeat the way you describe, you have a recorded ancient Pagan prayer which is the last § of Velleius Paterculus Roman History book II. It's NOTHING like a centering prayer.

Now, if you want Biblical support for repetitive prayers, take the fact that Jesus prayed nights through. Sleep privation can be compensated by the hypnotic state. Meaning, this is presumably how He prayed, since it would have been very difficult to pray an entire night without such support, physiologically speaking.

You mentioned "talking like a child to his father" but do your children never sit silent next to you or your hubby and just feel your presence?

PS, the peace and quiet are not responses from the spirit world, but from your brain. It is not a result of opening up, but opens you up to what you want to open up to ... preferrably God. You don't need a demon to get quiet after repetitive prayer. It's called the alpha state. It's not a result you force, it's a condition for starting to pray with confidence, or at least a help to doing so.

Friendly Neighborhood Jesus Freak

@fnjesusfreak

That's NECROMANCY, Patrick!

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@fnjesusfreak 1) My name isn't Patrick. If you assumed I was Irish, thank you for the compliment.
2) Adressing saints who have passed on isn't necromancy. The description is very specific, and the Rosary doesn't fit it. See the Witch of Endor.
3) Our Lady, on top of that, has, like Her Son, resurrected and entered Heaven body and soul.

You are echoing Jews who call Christians necromancers for adressing Jesus.

Friendly Neighborhood Jesus Freak

Chapter and verse, or it didn't happen.

Couldn't go below notified comment

so I answer it here instead.

He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
[Luke 10:16]

But Catholic clergy who are their successors say 3 happened, so it did. Mary is alive, body and soul, in Heaven.

On top of that, you gave no chapter and verse for your claim about prayers to saints being necromancy.