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Do you say daily prayers? If so, which prayers do you say? When do you say them? Do you have a special prayer book you read them out of? If so, whats the title of the book? Where did you get it? Do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours? What book do you pray them out of?
 
I say the Liturgy of the Hours every morning and evening, along with mental(centering) prayer and spiritual reading.

Throughout the day, as often as it comes to mind, I say the Jesus prayer, “Lord Jesus Christ son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.”

Jim
 
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I say the Liturgy of the Hours every morning and evening, along with mental(centering) prayer and spiritual reading.

Throughout the day, as often as it comes to mind, I say the Jesus prayer, “Lord Jesus Christ son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.”

Jim
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Where did you get the book at that you say the Liturgy of the Hours?
 
I too pray the LOTH. I use the book called “Christian Prayer”
You can but it at any catholic goods store it runs about $35 or so.
I also have the 4 vol. set that I use on occasion. They are about the same price as the other book but times 4 for the 4 vols.

I also try to pick out a novena that is appropriate for the time of year to pray. I there are several litanies that I like to pray.

Paul
 
I pray the rosary and Novenas such as: the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for Holy Souls in Purgatory.
 
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Do you say daily prayers? If so, which prayers do you say? When do you say them? Do you have a special prayer book you read them out of? If so, whats the title of the book? Where did you get it? Do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours? What book do you pray them out of?
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Yes I say daily prayers. I say different ones on different days and there are those I pray every day. I say them every morning with my husbnad, he has his prayer book and I have mine. We made up our own prayer books consisiting of our own persoal favorites and the one that I politely suggest that my husband should pray:D , No I do not pray the LOTH, not enough time.
 
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Do you say daily prayers? If so, which prayers do you say? When do you say them? Do you have a special prayer book you read them out of? If so, whats the title of the book? Where did you get it? Do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours? What book do you pray them out of?
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As a member of the Confraternity of Penitents, I am required to pray for 90 minutes a day, and more is better. As I tend to get bored with the recitation of the same prayers day after day, I tend to vary my prayers.

I use the Universalis site for LOTH Lite. I sometimes pray The Little Office. Rosaries, Novenas, and other prayers. There are so many good books of prayers and meditations to use. Plus spiritual reading.
 
Are you familiar with the Jesus prayer? I recently read a book
that highly recommends it as your main daily prayer. It’s very
short:

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

I tried it, and I like it. The book says to say it 100 times a day!:eek:

A fun thing I like to do with it is to think up other things about
Jesus besides just Son of God, and say them when it’s time
to say “Son of God”.

Lord Jesus Christ, ( ), have mercy on me, a sinner.
Code: 
                  Creator of the universe
                  Comforter of Souls
                  Giver of all Life
                  Source of all things holy
                  King of all the nations
                  Provider of all strength
                  Divine Son of Mary
                  you gave your life for all
                  you live and reign forever
                  who came down from heaven
                  you guide us in your ways
                  love of my life
                  my Lord and My God...
 then if I don't think of one right away, I still say
 "Son of the Living God" in between.    It's fun!:nun1:
 
My personal experience with prayer has been that prayers that I make up seem to be better because I am saying every word from my heart, not reading somebody elses. However, I do say the “Our Father” the “Hail Mary” and the “Fatima Prayer” quite often. I pray for a couple of fairly long sessions in the morning and at night. Also, since this is the offseason for cross country, I ride my bike for about 15-20 miles on little-trafficed country roads by my farm. This is a great way to meditate and pray with God. Also, short prayers as simple as “Thank You Father” anytime you can remember have become routine in my prayer life.
 
rosary every day while I walk (good guide on newadvent, catholicity.com or ewtn or buy Fr. Peytons Rosary book)

LOTH with the 4 volume set, it was a gift but I think it is from Catholic Book Publishing. as an Oblate this and lectio divina are what we have committed to. I nearly always get morning and/or evening prayer in but sometimes I cheat and use universalis. when we are together as a group or training new candidates we use Shorter Christian Prayer, which I also use in any parish setting (because the parish owns a lot of the books) about $15 in any Catholic book catalog, and there is a large type edition as well

when travelling I carry Magnificat or Word Among Us, which have daily Mass readings, order of the Mass, simplified morning and evening prayer, saint a day, and reflection for meditation plus some good articles on spiritual topics.

lectio divina, book is the bible, or any missal or resource with daily Mass readings. or for the summer I often carry one of the Ignatius Press study guides for a particular book and do lectio with that over a few months. for instance I will be doing Mark this summer in preparation for next liturgical year since we rely so heavily on the lectionary in our catechetical programs.

oops you asked when
rosary in am before sun is up and golfers are out

loth after getting dressed and having light meal in am (diabetic, have to eat), evening prayer either with whatever class or group is meeting that night, or after supper.

lectio, try to get to chapel as early as I can in the day, if I wait until later it won’t happen

if I wake in the middle of the night I pray vigils (office of readings) and do lectio with the readings, which usually puts me right to sleep. don’t know if that prayer is efficacious, I guess Teresa would say yes, John of the Cross, he is stricter
 
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