[Buckeye McFrog]

I suppose it would depend on the person doing the praying, and whether their focus was on the content or merely the quantity of the prayers.

[Terry L Smith]

Buckeye McFrog wrote:
“I suppose it would depend on the person doing the praying, and whether their focus was on the content or merely the quantity of the prayers.”

I would agree with Buckeye, on this one.

I do know that the ‘construction’ of a rosary, has meaning and reverence, to those that make note of that act. If, by noting that, they are not ‘counting the bead number content per prayer’, but noting that point of reverence, in between their fingers at that moment, built into the rosary, it is with their heart that, I believe, those folks are making that connection.

I have heard heart-felt prayers by those holding their special rosaries in their hands. I have heard those who pray, holding their rosaries, at racetrack speed, the poor bead set in motion, almost as a ‘medium-speed drive belt’!
(I thought it was going to come apart.)

I might think that both ‘are accomplishing what they set out to do’, but ‘prayer-closet strength’ vs. ‘street-corner Pharisetical machine-gunning votives’, my vote is ‘on the closet’.

[PeevedPatriot]

I suppose it would depend on the person doing the praying, and whether their focus was on the content or merely the quantity of the prayers.

Exactly. Scripture doesn't forbid repetitious prayer, but vain repetitions. The psalms are filled with repetitions. Jesus prayed the same prayer 3 times in his agony. And Revelation tells us that in heaven the same prayer of adoration is repeated without cease. One cannot claim that prayer of the rosary is vain without ability to judge the heart of the one praying it.