What about this? What about people who say, ah, you Catholics, you're doing exactly what Jesus

warned you against. Jesus warned against repeating yourself in prayer. Did Jesus actually warn

against repeating ourselves in prayer? Or did he actually use another particular phrase? Do not

Babel like the Peggins. How my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascentra Presents. I made a video

on the origins of the rosary. You know, it's helpful. It's helpful to know where things come from. Origins of everything. The superhero origin stories, Jesus at one point is teaching on prayer. And he says,

okay, when you pray, do not babble like the pagans. Sometimes people say this. To say Catholics,

you're babbling like the pagans when you have a rosary bead or rosary rosary and pray on the

rosary beads and repeat yourself in prayer. You're just doing exactly what Jesus told you not to do. Now again, Jesus did not say, do not repeat yourself

in prayer. How do we know this? A, because he didn't say it. B, because he himself repeated

himself in prayer. If you go back to the story of Jesus in the garden of Githemite, what does

he do? He prays to his father, using the same words

multiple times. He repeated himself in prayer. So Jesus is not condemning a repetitive prayer.

Also, if Jesus was a good Jew, and we know he was a good Jew, that would mean that he would pray

the Psalms. And he didn't just pray the Psalms once. He most likely repeated the Psalms so many times

that he had largely committed them to memory.

So he could repeat those Psalms, those prayers,

anytime he wanted to.

Jesus is not condemning repeating oneself in prayer.

He was condemning babbling like the pagans.

He says, when you pray, do not babble like the pagans.

Here's the next part of the

phrase, which is so critical for us, who think that because of their many words, they'll

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