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Paris_Blues
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Have you guys just been wanting to pray but you don’t either feel like it or are too tired yet you just want to pray but you can’t? Like your soul and spirit want to but you just can’t do it?
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m134e5
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Yeah- that happens to me a lot. Sometimes I want to pray the rosary, and I put it off until the end of the day- and then I end up listening to Catholic music to try and help me become more reflective- I just get relaxed and fall asleep instead.
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jrabs
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I think your soul and spirit always want to pray - but our physical bodies get lazy, our emotions get in the way, and we don’t FEEL like praying.
And it is difficult at times to separate the feelings of the body from the needs of the soul. Soul and body don’t often seek the same thing.
Those are precisely the times when prayer is needed. When you don’t feel like it.
And it is difficult at times to separate the feelings of the body from the needs of the soul. Soul and body don’t often seek the same thing.
Those are precisely the times when prayer is needed. When you don’t feel like it.
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YinYangMom
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Yup.
I pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be and the prayer to Michael the Archeangel.
The OF, HM, GB are the very least I can muster, they are almost the equivalent of “Thank God!” Quick, concise, accurate, easy to recite.
But I add the Michael prayer because I know Satan is sapping me of my ability to connect with God when I don’t ‘feel’ any energy behind my words.
I definitely say those every morning and every evening - NO MATTER WHAT…it becomes routine, like brushing my teeth. Most times, my heart and soul are behind the words, but at others there seems to be nothing behind them, but I say them anyway because I know God wants to hear them and that the Holy Spirit will come to my aid.
I pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be and the prayer to Michael the Archeangel.
The OF, HM, GB are the very least I can muster, they are almost the equivalent of “Thank God!” Quick, concise, accurate, easy to recite.
But I add the Michael prayer because I know Satan is sapping me of my ability to connect with God when I don’t ‘feel’ any energy behind my words.
I definitely say those every morning and every evening - NO MATTER WHAT…it becomes routine, like brushing my teeth. Most times, my heart and soul are behind the words, but at others there seems to be nothing behind them, but I say them anyway because I know God wants to hear them and that the Holy Spirit will come to my aid.
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becauseIsaidso
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I often fall asleep during formal prayer. I routinely nod off during my Adoration Chapel hour, specifically the first 20 minutes. It is so bad that I can feel myself beginning to get drowsy during the 15 minute drive to the church! It is like my body is sabotaging me! I have learned to just accept that the first 20 minutes of Chapel I will nod off. After that I feel alert and attuned to Jesus.
I tried praying the rosary every day, but my mind would wander, the kids would wake up early, etc…
Then I found the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Allelujiah! I can recite that in about 7 minutes flat, before kids wake up and before my mind can wander…too much!
Alas, my lazy self, now I just plain forget or don’t get around to saying even a chaplet. This is the down side of ADHD…
…but the up side of us ADHD folk is that we get new ideas quickly and with great enthusiasm…
Ok, gotta go, now I am inspired to get through at least one Chaplet today!
I tried praying the rosary every day, but my mind would wander, the kids would wake up early, etc…
Then I found the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Allelujiah! I can recite that in about 7 minutes flat, before kids wake up and before my mind can wander…too much!
Alas, my lazy self, now I just plain forget or don’t get around to saying even a chaplet. This is the down side of ADHD…
…but the up side of us ADHD folk is that we get new ideas quickly and with great enthusiasm…
Ok, gotta go, now I am inspired to get through at least one Chaplet today!
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Tonks40
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I get to the point sometimes that I don’t have time to pray, or am too tired or too frustrated to pray, but I make myself do it anyways, trying to center my prayer around the gifts that God has given us and making sure I thank Him, no matter how brief. Sometimes doing that makes me overcome my negative feelings, then I begin to feel more during my prayer.
I try and do a rosary every night, but I’m noticing by the 4th mystery, I drift to sleep, then jolt out of it to try and finish it. It gets tough sometimes, but I always feel more peaceful when I do finish.
I try and do a rosary every night, but I’m noticing by the 4th mystery, I drift to sleep, then jolt out of it to try and finish it. It gets tough sometimes, but I always feel more peaceful when I do finish.
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Mamamull
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When we fall asleep praying the Rosary, isn’t Our blessed Mother supposed to love us as any mother does when she sees her child sleeping?
I think that in adoration, that again, the thought of St. Therese of the Child Jesus first enlightened me of this conept of being a child of God even when we are adults.
In our busy world where we become human doings – we forget that the Lord is present to us at all times in the present moment and not at the end of our to do list. Besides, many prophets were enlightened during dreams.
While, I know we want to be aware and active, perhaps the Lord wants us to learn to relax and have faith in Him. I often think that the best I do is a morning offering and short devotional prayer to the Holy Spirit (Belived of my soul, lead me guide… give me your orders…) I then have to be present to the children and my husband, too. They help me keep my ego in perspective
I just try to make the sign of the cross or say a Hail Mary, etc. I drove by my parish today and forgot to cross myself and I was in the adoration chapel just hours before. Kyrie!
Just some non-human points of view, I hope.
I think that in adoration, that again, the thought of St. Therese of the Child Jesus first enlightened me of this conept of being a child of God even when we are adults.
In our busy world where we become human doings – we forget that the Lord is present to us at all times in the present moment and not at the end of our to do list. Besides, many prophets were enlightened during dreams.
While, I know we want to be aware and active, perhaps the Lord wants us to learn to relax and have faith in Him. I often think that the best I do is a morning offering and short devotional prayer to the Holy Spirit (Belived of my soul, lead me guide… give me your orders…) I then have to be present to the children and my husband, too. They help me keep my ego in perspective
I just try to make the sign of the cross or say a Hail Mary, etc. I drove by my parish today and forgot to cross myself and I was in the adoration chapel just hours before. Kyrie!Just some non-human points of view, I hope.
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becauseIsaidso
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Absolutely love the term “human doings”.
Thanks for reminding me that it is okay to just be a “being”.
Sometimes I think that a part of my desire to go to Adoration Chapel each week is the promise of one whole hour in which I don’t have to do anything and no one can phone me.
Just hangin’ with my Jesus is the second best thing I experience each week. The next day after Chapel I get to have the best experience of the week - Eucharist.
Thanks for reminding me that it is okay to just be a “being”.
Sometimes I think that a part of my desire to go to Adoration Chapel each week is the promise of one whole hour in which I don’t have to do anything and no one can phone me.
Just hangin’ with my Jesus is the second best thing I experience each week. The next day after Chapel I get to have the best experience of the week - Eucharist.
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