It has been said, beware of repetitious prayer and babbling. Jesus warns us against it in Matthew 6:7. Some say this when speaking against the prayer of the rosary. What many fail to understand is that Jesus isn’t against repetitious prayer, lest the angels who only chant “holy, holy, holy” (Revelation 4:8) around the Father’s throne are in error, but repetitious prayer that lacks righteous fervor. If repetition becomes just babbling with no conviction, then it is just as foul as non-rhetoric prayer. An example of repetitious prayer that was honorable and righteous to God was the prayer of the collector who kept beating his breast and praying “be merciful” in Luke 18:13. Or what about Christ Himself Who prayed the same thing over and over again, verbatim, in Matthew 26:44?
