In teaching people how to pray, the Lord Jesus said:ìBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.î
Matthew 6:7-8 (emphasis mine)
The continual recitation of the Hail Mary and the Rosary more closely
resembles the worship of Diana, goddess of the Ephesians, than it does prayer
as set forth in the Word of God.