Catholic Devotions and Practices

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Hi!!!
  1. Could you give me a list of Catholic devotions and practices today?
  2. Could you suggest to me a prayer schedule? Maybe these can be part of the schedule:
a.) Holy Mass
b.) Rosary
c.) Adoration
d.) Liturgy of the Hours

Thank you in advance.
 
The main thing is to have a private prayer life and to stay with it.
It may become very inconvient at times, but just be sure and complete what you set out to do.
Over time, you may want to adjust it somewhat. But just be sure and be faithful to it.

Also, do not worry about distractions. Some days may be good and others not so good. As long as they aren’t deliberate, then they count as prayer as well.

God looks at the effort and the heart. The success, if any, is his doing.​

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.
 
Dear Plasmadash,
My schedule is so hectic EVERYDAY as the day is not my own. So I love to start the day with the Morning Offering. Giving everything I think and do and say to Jesus. Even the tears, anger, frustration and laughter.
 
Hello! God bless you for your search! Just to name a few

Holy mass
Rosary
Adoration
Confession
Divine mercy chaplet
Litany of the saints
Liturgy of the hours
Saint chaplet s
First Friday devotion
First Saturday devotion
First Thursday
Chaplet of St. Michael
Stations of the Cross
The angelus
Prayer before and Afyer meal
Spiritual retreats

This is just to name a few!🙂

Here’s a sample schedule you might try

Pray morning prayer from thr liturgy of the hours
Follow this by rosary and morning offering

Make it to daily mass is parish offers

Pray angelus and midday prayer from loth

Pray divine mercy at 3

Recite vespers at 6 from loth

Recite compline from loth and make an examination of conscience as well as evening offering/ prayer before bed

This is just a sample you could if you wanted add mid morning prayer, modafternoon prAyet and the office of readings! It’s really up to you! Hope this helps somehow

If you don’t have the loth books you can buy them, but their expensive or you could use the divine office.com site for free or get the app for 20$

Or get the Christian prayer book which has morning and evening and maybe night prayer!

Hope this helps
 
Prayer- start with a prayer asking for guidance from the Holy Spirit, each morning, pray over each meal, pray at bedtime thanking God for the blessings of the day, examine your conscience and confessing your sins and offering your contrition, and asking for peace and protection through the night.

None of these prayers have to be formal scripted prayers. Use them as a means to develop a habit of having regular conversation with God.

Prayer will bring you closer to God and build a relationship with him. You will find the more you pray, the more you will want to pray!

Then you can add devotionals (chaplets and litanies, etc).

In a very short time you will realize that just as naturally as taking a breath, you will be praying…my first realization was when in recalling my week, I remember I went to bed every night and got up every morning with a prayer on my lips !

Peace and all good!
 
Just a tho ught. I have a free site called Laudate on my phone. It has readings of the day, Liturgy of the hours, and a place to bookmark prayers you want to remember. I find this useful in odd moments when I want to say a prayer of a particular kind. I usually have my phone with me, and there is a list of prayer to choose from to bookmark. I like the Receive Oh Lord prayer of St. Ignatius, and when in the dumps, De Profundis is good! Point is to pick the prayers that speak what you want to say then access them when you can.
 
Try the Liturgy of the Hours-laudate has a set(you just need internet connection).

Also try to develop a system of both spontaneous and structured prayer-I know it is not a specific prayer but it’s a tip.

And from another post here try to pray the Chaplet of St.Michael frequently-one of the posters mentioned about it helped with battling and fighting sin.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=806645&highlight=chaplet+of+saint+michael

May your prayer life flourish and flower 🙂
 
Please get a small bottle with stopper and fill with Holy Water, keep it close by and use it to make a proper Sign of the Cross. If unsure search how. Peace…
 
Life is VERY hectic so trying to schedule some time for your prayer life is a really excellent idea!

Several years ago I signed up to be scheduled for an hour of Adoration each week … later I signed up for a second hour on a different day.

I try to attend daily mass at least once a week.

I have made an effort to observe a “Sabbath day” in the spirit of its intention - a day where work is not done, a day for rest. I try not to be legalistic about it and it takes real effort sometimes to protect my time that way, but wow has it been an amazing blessing!

These three things - Adoration, daily mass and a day of rest - are a good framework in which to practice devotions such as praying novenas, reciting the chaplet of Divine Mercy, praying the rosary, reading Catholic books on prayer, etc.

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Hi! Newbie here, first post!

I recently started my prayer life over again. I got a beautiful journal and wrote out the prayers that most touched my heart and were significant to me throughout the day. Prayers for my family, for my husband, for my children, for vocations, for priests, etc.

I have also started praying the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet daily, which I find to be so reassuring. I also did a 9 day novena to St. Joseph and one to Mary, Untier of Knots, for my husband to get a job.

I have been finding it very reassuring. I’m not ready to bump it up to the Liturgy and some of the other more complex prayers. This is where I’m at now and very happy with it thus far.
 
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