The One Time of Day Padre Pio Said You Must Pray the Rosary

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Padre Pio said to pray the rosary at night, and his reason was five words long. A fellow friar once asked him how, in one ordinary day, he had already prayed around 30 rosaries. The saint answered: what is the night for? Most of us treat the rosary as a prayer to squeeze into the day's leftover minutes, which is why most days we never quite get to it at all. Padre Pio believed almost the opposite. This prayer has a home, a certain time of day when it belongs more than any other, and it is not the calm afternoon or the bright morning. It is the very hours we usually surrender to sleep, to worry, and to the cold glow of a screen. He did not invent night prayer. He inherited it. Jesus continued all night in prayer on the mountain. Paul and Silas sang hymns at midnight in their chains. Behind them both stands the Shema, Israel's command to keep God's words when you lie down and when you rise, and the psalmist's line: I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you in the watches of the night. The darkness was never something to hide from. It was something to fill with prayer. So tonight, reach for the beads before you reach for the phone. One rosary at the close of your day, and if you fall asleep halfway through, rest a bit and start again. Even one decade prayed on your pillow is a night handed back to God. In this video: • The five-word answer to how he prayed 30 rosaries in a single day • Why the night is the most undefended part of your day, and why it belongs to prayer • The Jewish roots of night prayer: the Shema, Psalm 63, and Passover's night of watching • "Give me my weapon": what was actually in his habit pocket • Padre Pio's answer to the vain repetition objection, and his advice if you fall asleep mid-rosary ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 What Is the Night For 1:03 A Day in the Life: 34 Rosaries 3:11 The Night Is Not Empty Time 3:58 Jesus, Paul and Silas, and the Night Watch 5:26 The Apostolic Tradition on Midnight Prayer 6:13 Give Me My Weapon 7:55 How to Start Tonight 📖 SCRIPTURE REFERENCED • Luke 6:12: before choosing the Twelve, Jesus went up the mountain and continued all night in prayer to God. • Acts 16:25: at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns, and the prisoners were listening. • Deuteronomy 6: the Shema commands his words on your heart when you lie down and when you rise. • Psalm 63:6: I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you in the watches of the night. • Exodus 12: the first Passover is called a night of watching kept to the Lord. • Matthew 6:7 with 26:44: the warning against empty phrases, and Jesus in Gethsemane praying a third time, saying the same words. ⛪ FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS • Hippolytus of Rome (around 215), Apostolic Tradition: rise and pray at midnight and again at cockcrow, for at the midnight hour the whole of creation pauses to praise its maker. 📜 SOURCES & FURTHER READING • St. Padre Pio of San Giovanni Rotondo: the Capuchin who bore the wounds of Christ for 50 years, canonised in 2002, who rose most mornings between 2 and 3 after barely two hours of sleep. • Asked how he had already prayed some 30 rosaries in one ordinary day, he answered in five words: what is the night for? Witnesses counted 7 before breakfast, 16 by noon, 34 by 9 at night. • The weapon: the rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. He slept with beads under his pillow, on the nightstand, around his arm, and near death told the friars, "Give me my weapon". • The cure for mindless repetition: pay attention to the mysteries. The words repeat. The scenes from the life of Christ do not. • His final instruction, two days before he died: love Our Lady and recite the rosary always. 🔗 EXPLORE MORE 🌍 Website: https://totuscatholica.org/ Rosary Guide: https://totuscatholica.org/rosary ✉️ Contact: https://totuscatholica.org/contact 🔍 Examination of Conscience: https://catholicexaminationofconscien... 📚 Free eBooks: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi... 👥 Become a Totus Insider: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi...