Do you guys have a praying routine? If so what is it?

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I have started using A.C.T.S. Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication. It works for me.
 
Routine is important to me so I do have a prayer routine.
Daily: Morning Office, Reflecrion on Gospel of the day, Rosary, Evening Office, and Mass if I am able to go.
Weekly: Traditional mysteries of the rosary (Monday: Joyful, Tuesday: Sorrowful etc.), Friday abstinence, Confession on Saturday.
Sometimes things change according to circumstance or feast days etc. As you can tell I prefer to follow set prayers!
 
Mine is a bit upside down at the moment yb21…
it kind of goes like,morning offering and prayers when I wake ,Grace at meals,rosary when I drive,am walking,doing chores prayers before bed.
Divine Mercy novena daily now.
I pray everytime I pass a holy picture or statue,think of someone who needs prayer ,am grateful for something.The day is a mixture of constantly praying but not always formed prayer as such,just talking to Jesus and Our Lady.
I wake in the night at present ,and go back to sleep with prayer.
The praying is constant but not very organised 🙂
 
I do not do well with routines of any sort.

I have a list of prayers I try to get through every day. There are certain ones I try to do at certain times, such as doing the Morning Offering in the morning followed by a short consecration renewal prayer, 3 Hail Marys and a collect for the saint of the day; doing the Angelus at 6, 12 and 6 (I have a phone alarm set to remind me); doing particular prayers before or after daily Mass communion, and doing a driver’s prayer + guardian angel prayers when I get into the car to drive somewhere.

Other prayers, I just do whenever I can fit them in. Also, if I happen to miss the Morning Offering, I just do it whenever I think of it, so once in a while it’s the Afternoon Offering and a couple of times it’s been the Evening Offering. Also if I miss a prayer I’ll just double up the next time I pray it. Sometimes I get several days behind and have to do a whole bunch of a particular prayer in a row.

What works for me is associating a particular prayer with a particular activity, such as getting in the car or after Holy Communion at daily Mass.

What totally doesn’t work for me is scheduling any prayer for “bed time”. When I am ready to sleep, I am invariably so tired that prayer is a disaster. I tried several times to do the nighttime examination of conscience that I am supposed to do for Nineveh 90 and it was absolutely hopeless. I finally gave up and started doing it right before Communion instead when I say a little prayer about detachment from sin and then make an act of contrition. Usually my sins are so fresh in my mind I don’t really need to think that hard about it.
 
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Greenfields said:
I pray everytime I pass a holy picture or statue,think of someone who needs prayer ,am grateful for something.The day is a mixture of constantly praying but not always formed prayer as such,just talking to Jesus and Our Lady.
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Yes, this too. I started saying a little short prayer each time I hear a siren, asking God to help the situation involved with the call. This is something the sisters in my elementary school used to try to get us to do when sirens went by. I also say a little short prayer for the dead every time I pass a cemetery while driving, which in this area is about 1 to 2 times a day since there are dozens of historic cemeteries around.
 
I like to have a routine, it works best for me I find. morning prayer angelus and office of readings when I get up in the morning. Work circumstances permitting I attend daily mass. Midday prayer and Angels at lunchtime. Evening prayer, Rosary, Angelus and divine chaplet. Night prayer before sleepy night night time. There is also a few other prayers I pray to like act of consecration, St Michael prayer, act of faith hope and charity that I pray through the course of the day also. I find if I don’t maintain a structure to my prayer I can be prone to procrastinating, which can result in me not offering prayers and feeling a bit disappointed with myself. I also try my best to practise Lectio but I am fairly inconsistent with it if I am honest.
 
I’m hopeless with Compline. Tried to get into the habit of saying it. Lasted all of one week. That was it; and only because I was on pilgrimage at the time.

I forgot about the Angelus. I have a reminder on my phone too lol.
 
The bad part about the phone reminder is that it does not go silent when I set my phone to silent, so if I’m not careful it has gone off at inappropriate times. The ringtone is the opening trumpet fanfare from the old “Nightline” news show.

Once I was receiving Communion at a Mass at 6 pm when the thing went off just as I stepped up to receive. Another time the trumpet fanfare went off right when the Norbertine monks at the local abbey were holding up the Host at Consecration. “A blare of trumpets for the Lord” indeed.

If I leave the phone home, I tend to forget completely and remember only hours later.
 
Usually the divine mercy chaplet before I sleep. I also say daily prayers/readings from the magnificat app. I pray the rosary too, but not daily.
 
Divine Office, Daily Mass, try to pray the Rosary daily (I’m not as regular with this as I should be and am trying to become more consistant).

Most of my prayer life resides in incessant prayer. One of my Order’s founders, the Venerable Augustine Adorno (the title was given to him during his lifetime and it is unclear if he is officially Venerable with regards to canonization) is known as the Pioneer of Incessant Prayer and spread the practice of living your life in constant conversation with God. In doing so, you do not simply pray constantly, but instead come to live your prayer and it becomes an inherent fixture in your life.
 
In accordance with my aspirancy, and with a few private devotions. Right now I have started the Novena leading into a Divine Mercy Sunday
 
Mornings are my best time. I pray the first hour of the day: Divine Mercy novena (I do this year round), LOH Morning Prayer, several other personal prayers, Rosary. I am very slow with the Rosary and try to do good meditation.
Noon Mass during weekdays as well, of course, Sunday Mass.
1 hr adoration on Sunday after Mass (not always consistent–working on this)
Bi-weekly confession.
I try to do some before-bed prayers but it ends up being very little. I also do some spiritual reading throughout the week.
 
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Mornings are my best time.
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Me too. Early in the morning, I make a Morning Offering when I first wake up. After breakfast, I do some devotional reading, and then Morning Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. I pray the Rosary as I walk to daily 6:30 am Mass (I’m retired now - this was not my prayer routine for most of my working life). In the early afternoon, I read some more from whichever spiritual book I’m reading, and then I pray Evening Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. I know many will say Evening Prayer should be said in the evening, but with me, the later it gets the less likely I am to pray. After Evening Prayer (still in the early afternoon), I read a passage from the Rule of St. Benedict, and then try to sit in silent prayer for a few minutes (I actually try to sit for longer than a few minutes, but with my undisciplined mind it usually turns out to be just a few minutes). Before bed, I do a very brief examination of conscience, and usually mumble a quick Act of Contrition.
 
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