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The Rosary The rosary has been called the preparation for contemplation and the prayer of saints. While the hands and lips are occupied with the prayers (**it can and should be prayed silently when necessary so as not to disturb others, especially when praying with others before the Blessed Sacrament*), the mind meditates on the mysteries of the Incarnation and Redemption represented by the decades. Meditation is the form of prayer by which the one who prays uses the mind and imagination to consider a truth and uses the will to love it and form resolutions to live it. In this way the heart, mind, and soul of the Christian is formed according to the Gospel examples of the Savior and His First Disciple, His Mother. In God's own time, when this purification of the heart, mind, and soul has advanced sufficiently the Lord may give the grace of contemplative prayer, that special divine insight into the truth which human effort cannot achieve on its own. ------------------------------------------------------------ **(If one is praying it before the Blessed Sacrament, it can and should be prayed silently when necessary so as not to disturb others who are silently adoring the Eucharistic Lord in the Blessed Sacrament)*
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