If you realize that you find happiness and peace by reciting the Rosary

"It is in love’s nature to keep repeating itself, with simple and affectionate words. If you feel the need to nourish your prayer with the Scriptures, go for it. But if you realize that you find happiness and peace by picking up your rosary and immersing yourself in this rhythmic and repetitive prayer, rejoice!

Remember this: if you can recite a whole Rosary without thinking too deeply, but instead can rest in the peaceful presence of the Mother of Jesus, rejoice, for it means that the Holy Spirit is moving you, and this is what matters the most when we pray.

For some who don’t know much about the spiritual life, the Rosary is a mindless, mechanical prayer, a waste of time. But for those who lead a spiritual life and are advanced in the way of prayer, the Rosary is the easiest way to help us pray in a sustained and concrete way.

I have no hesitation in saying that those who find happiness in praying the Rosary are contemplative souls, or well on the way to becoming so. Let us be careful not to look down upon what we don’t know."

Carlo Carretto (Italian writer, 1910-1988)

An excerpt from his book You Who Believed