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The Rosary and non-Catholics
August 30, 2006 |
The following is an excerpt from the Rosary Workshop website:
We receive many emails that start off ‘I would love to make rosaries but I am a Protestant - is it ok? Some ask, ‘I want to pray the rosary but do not know if I should’, ‘is it a Catholic thing‘. What a treasure! How beautiful it is that people are discovering the rosary regardless of their faith. Even had one lady ask if praying the rosary would make her a Catholic. No, praying the rosary will not make one become a Catholic. And yes, it is okay to pray or make a rosary regardless of one’s faith. The rosary is simply made up of scriptural passages that tell the life of Jesus. A powerful way to count prayer and meditate on Him. It makes one realise that to fully know and understand who Jesus is, you must know the scripture…
Then, seeing the weird Simpsons episode in which Bart and Homer become Catholics and other similar attitudes in American television, I realise that in America Catholicism appears to be regarded by some as a sort of disease. I can’t see why. The Magisterium of the Church is there for spiritual and moral direction, the ‘rituals’ people deride are millenia old and instituted by the Lord himself.
I agree that it’s beautiful that people are discovering the rosary. But praying the rosary as used by Catholics is a Marian devotion. Perhaps it does make you a little Catholic. Making rosaries is a different thing.
