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Originally Posted by katyanne
I love talking about these things! It's rote prayers when I pray the rosary, not necessarily the same ones every time but I choose from prayers that are available. Communion is the biggest thing for me, as I believe it to be the body and blood of Jesus as in literally and I feel that it gives me energy to live out my life when I partake of it weekly at church. I actually don't say grace at meals I'm not sure why except that it seems cheesy and like something the fundamentalists do. I was raised fundamentalist and reject it now. Tarot is also a part of my spiritual toolbox even though most Christians shun it.
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Rote prayers can act as a mantra, and I understand that. I know that such rote-ness was frowned on when I was a kid, like we were supposed to think about every word as we said it. But our parents did the same thing, after all. Rosaries, litanies, they got our elders through a lot of tough times. Look up the Litany of Our Lady of Victory if you want to see a good long prayer for times of trouble. It was one of my mother's staples.
Oh, and a lot of old-time Catholics, particularly non-Anglo ones, used divination regularly despite what the priests said; my French-Canadian grandmother was a playing-card reader.