How do young Catholics remember a set of prayers in order to pray the rosary?
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How do young Catholics remember a set of prayers in order to pray the rosary? Do they have to memorize everything by rote, or do they get some help with mnemonics? Should they pray in Latin or in the vernacular? Is there a bit of wiggle room if someone is a little amnesic so that they don't have to remember a set of prayers? Would just *reading* the prayers suffice instead of actually memorizing, or is memorizing a form of pious behavior for young people who are taught to become faithful practicing Catholics?
So, I was reading this article [Cunningham, L. S. (1999). Mary in Catholic Doctrine and Practice. Theology Today, 56(3), 307.], and I noticed that the author was raised Catholic as a youngster, as shown.
> By the time I was in elementary school, I knew how to say the
> rosary-which meant that I had memorized the Hail Mary, the Lord’s
> Prayer, the Apostle’s Creed, and the Glory be to the Father as well as
> the titles of the fifteen mysteries upon which we meditated as we
> prayed.
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Nov 16, 2013, 04:19 AM
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