https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctDuVqX_9pU
Orthodoxy also has the Hail Mary, but not quite the systematised Catholic rosary. Big difference between the Catholics and the Orthodox is that the Catholics invoke the imagination during prayer (kataphatic prayer, I believe is the proper term; I might be misspelling that), whilst the Orthodox invoke apophatic prayer. Kataphatic prayer is highly discouraged in Orthodoxy because using the imagination during prayer to say, envision one of the remembrances of the Theotokos, makes one highly prone to mistaking delusion for spiritual insight. "Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, blessed be the fruit of thy womb and thy Son Jesus" is stuff that's literally found in the Bible, if I'm not mistaken. The distinction with the Orthodox and their version is such that they do a 'remembrance' in silent contemplation without invoking the imagination.
Quietness in prayer is called hesychia. We do not "invoke the imagination", you fast and enter into state called theosis, and you pray "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner". But, no one is going to stop you for praying for things, it's totally acceptable; it's just not hesychastic prayer, which is a specific practice with a specific goal; to "see Taboric Light". And honestly, I can't even tell you what that means exactly, as I'm not a good Christian.
But this is what I mean by Western folly. You do not learn about hesychia by Youtube. You're supposed to fast, go to church, sing the Troparions, smell the insense. It's a sensual, not rational, experience.
Religion is a practice of a real community of real people, not a set of debate points in your head, that you interpreted from a book. As an example: did you know we don't even have a Bible in the Orthodoxy? We keep the Evangelion and that's it. No OT books. They're still canon, we just don't physically keep them in the church. People ask to read the Bible we say "go buy any Bible in the vernacular, it does not matter from where." Typically suggesting King James. (Orthodox Study Bible is very expensive and not officially a thing, so we don't tell people to go spend money on it.) Because what really matters to the church, is that you participate in it. You don't really need a Bible if you keep the Christian calendar.
And in regards to the rosary, we absolutely pray the rosary like the Romans, but there's no strict standard, because it's a practice that entered the Orthodoxy through the Maronites, Melkites, and recent converts. It's seen more popularity recently because of people leaving Novos Ordo for our Liturgy, and bringing the practice with them from Maronite, Melkite, or other Roman churches. There's no issue with praying the rosary how you did in Catholic church.
Please just go to a church if you're curious. Not to be harsh on the Father, but I think I'm free to express how mortifying I find his online presence without it being sinful, but
personally, I find the fact that this Father even does this, sort of big online presence to talk about scholastic soft science topics like anxiety and depression, frankly embarrassing. I don't think it's befitting a Palamist and you would never see this from a friar in a small Antiochene church. We're not self-help gurus. We're not evangelicals making apologetics to atheists. We keep the mysteries.
The West has fallen. Fatpacks where are you Xister???????????
