Praying the Rosary is Simple yet Profound

It is October again. This would mean for the Catholic Church as the Rosary Month. For Catholics, the Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because it is an awesome prayer of man’s salvation from eternal damnation. St. John Paul II once said that the Rosary is a way of “remembering Christ with Mary”, who knows Him as only mother can. Luke 2:19 tells us that Mary continually meditated on the mysteries in her Son’s life and “pondered all these things in her heart”.

Praying the Holy Rosary is a simple but profound act.

It is simple due to the unchanging series of the most basic prayers of our faith repeated while thinking about the most important events in the life of Jesus, and by extension, of His mother Mary. It does not require a vast knowledge of the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

It is profound because it originates in God’s own Word. Pope Pius XII and Paul VI have called the Rosary as “compendium of the entire Gospel” or the Gospel on a string because it encompasses all the highlights of the history of our salvation, namely: the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries.