I feel shocked and sad when I see the nuns on TV chanting mindlessly about "fruit of thy womb", should I?

Question

There is a Catholic station and when I flip the channels I see them, poor naive women, chanting over and over about "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb" and it makes me so sad, to see so many women robbed of their rational thought processes, dead looking eyes, like robots, chanting mindlessly over and over something so strange, what is this all about, why do they do it, why must it be done over and over and what is the purpose?

To me it appears to be mind control or brainwashing, repeating something over and over to numb your thought processes so you don't question what you are told.

Answer 1

Oh, those ladies scare me. They were always at church when I was in cat'lik school. We're talking like 6AM Monday morning, who goes to church on Monday morning?

Answer 2

Cry for the wicked, and the evil because their free life of non robotics, and sophist minds are doomed for ever.
The women who chant may be doing so in vain but the hearts of these people would lay down their lives for you and I. This is a far better thing that the wealthy hypocrites would ever do for you. These whom you assume have been robbed of rational thought would give you food and shelter in their God's name, whereas the ones of cults and the occult would want recognition, and money to help you! The occult would want your body. Perhaps their eyes are dead to the world we live in but even in their ignorant chants they do have an eternity of standing in sight of God Almighty.The wicked and evil will never see what they will forever; so shed tears of pity for those who do not believe.
Perhaps God will make these women understand"the womb so blessed" was not to be praised before God is worshipped. I believe it true that the Catholics run against the second commandment but we are not the ones to judge their soul on that. As strange as it may seem to you,but to the women, it is a logical step in the worship of God, and what He has brought before us "the Christ Jesus" and I believe that this prayer to Mary and Mary-ism altogether is a misguided form of worship. They don't see it that way. This is why they do the repeated chanting because they believe that they are glorifying God here on earth as it is in heaven.
Do not feel sad for them.
Do feel sad for the unfaithful, they have an eternity to wonder why they never worshipped God as they should have. They will never know the sweet life of God. So cry for the fools,the hardened intillect, cry for the ones who would spit at God's feet. They hear and they don't listen, they see and will not accept their sight, they feel God's spirit and call it their own, and they speak of their wisdom and hold nothing of value.
Leave your emotions at the side with these women they deserve more than sadness.

Answer 3

No, what is sad is that you do not recognize people in deep meditative payer. Thhey are not mindlessly chanting. They are praying the Rosary. They are reflecting on the events in the lives of Jesus and mary as they are written in the Gospels while they are praying the Hail Mary..

Answer 4

Nuns, mindless? Shame on you. All Roman Catholics recite the HAIL MARY prayer which is a love and beseeching for the woman, Mary, who gave birth, to Jesus, the Fruit of her womb, to pray for us, the sinners.

It certainly doesn't take a genius to determine what I just wrote. No, I am not a Roman Catholic, and neither am I a genius.

Answer 5

It's one of the reasons I left The Catholic Church. Rituals, mass praying, praying to Mary instead of to God. I believe in a personal relationship with God and praying from your heart, not reciting the same thing over and over. But that's just my opinion.

Merry Christmas.

Answer 6

I never cared about them. But who am I to force them to stop chanting, I can only tell them an alternative thing to do if I actually meet them.

Answer 7

Would you ever get a life. Its what they are entitled to believe in. What has it got to do with you anyway ?? You and the rest of you who are giving disgusting answers are a disgrace insulting the prayer of our Blessed mother Mary. Im an Irish catholic and Im sick to the stomach at your disgusting question and your Satan loving disciple friends with their disgusting answers.

Answer 8

You are confusing mindless activity with contemplation.


Here is an article of mine that explains a similar type of confusion that is often made.
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Three Kinds of Guides
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Taken from the article

http://www.intermirifica.org/pentecost/gifts.htm

There are three types of guides that may direct a person's life.



1) the whim of the moment. Aristotle in his Ethics 1.5 says that to act that way is a life fit for cattle. They do just what they happen to feel like doing.

2) Reason, which in practice is always aided by actual graces, which God gives so generously. This means acting in a fully reasonable way, and not just following the grooves as it were. For example, suppose I see three options open to me. Ideally I would make at least mentally a list of the good points and of the bad points of each. Then I would look over the whole board, and pick what gives the best effect for me. Or if I come to think I need penance for my sins, I would ask: How much have I sinned, so I can know how much penance? what kind of penance will fit with my health? with the obligations of my state in life? And after several steps, a decision is reached. This method is called discursive, it moves from one step to another.

3) In this highest way a soul does not go from one step to another in a discursive process, but the answer is, as it were, dropped fully made and complete into his mind by the Gifts.



The first type of guide is of the bum, the drifter, of the one who does not want to work or take responsibility.

The second type is of the responsible man or woman who uses reason and will power to do his or her duty in life.

The third type is of the person in union with God, in which that person lives by the will of God moment by moment. He or she does not adhere to any system (except where duty or obedience commands it), but lives in a freedom beyond systems.


The thing is, because of their superficial similarity, 3) is often confused with 1).

Those living in the divine will are often accused of neglecting their duty, because "duty" in that case is what is expected by the culture in which they live, which is not necessarily the same as what is expected in one's vocation in life according to God's will.

So those of the highest virtue, often have the cross of being accused of being deficient in virtue because the contemplative is confused with the bum.


Often the saints have had the cross of *irony.* This means that they were accused of the vice that was precisely the opposite of the virtue that they shined in.

Our Lord is the first example of this, as being the Son of God, as being the Word made flesh, He was accused of being a blasphemer.


Transcendence is often confused with the sub-standard.

Suprageometric order is often confused with the subgeometric disorder of the garbage dump.

That is because, due to the superficial eye of the natural man, he cannot distinguish them, because both depart from what he is accustomed to as being order.

However, one departure from conventional order is below that and the other departure is above that.


Bruce Lee, who was both an outstanding martial artist and philosopher said that the same thing applies in the martial arts.

He said that the untrained man fights with no proper form.

With expert training in the martial arts, all the defensive and offensive moves have a tremendous form and technique to them.

But above that is the master of martial arts. He is no longer confined to particular forms, but his limbs have the freedom to block and counterattack with whatever motion is needed to do that most effectively.

The lowest is superficially similar to the highest, but there is a universe of difference between them.


Bruce Lee put it this way with a subtlety of expression.

The lowest is to *fight without form.*

The highest is to fight *without form.* (those are paraphrases, but capture the exact idea he conveyed).

We can see the difference in the subtle change in emphasis between the two.

He said that the first was immaturity and the second was transcendence (again paraphrasing)


Often, the difference between the lowest and the highest is a matter of extreme subtlety, as there is a very fine cleavage between good and evil.


Jim McCrea
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Answer 9

they are reciting the "Hail Mary", and it usually part of the rosary (praying by counting on beads). Google Catholicism, and you will get alot of info

Answer 10

Chanting over and over causes a person to focus on the spirit of God. which comes in to guide them and protect them and give them a much fuller life.people in many religions. and even people without a religion. chant . I chant.when I do I give myself over to the Spirit of God. this helps to connect me to the Spirit. it releases my mind and soul to the Spirit of God.. I wish you well on your spiritual journey.

Answer 11

They are praying "the rosary".

look at this for details.

http://www.pacifier.com/~rosarweb/howto.htm

god bless