How do you greet your Creator each morning?

[Greenfields]

What are your favourite morning prayers?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Aside from a silent scream to God for help, which I make at all hours of the day, I often wake up around the time the 6 am alarm for the Angelus is going off, so I say that.

 

[Greenfields]

I don’t have any likes left Tis ,:hugs:
Recently I’ve had my little 21/2 year old grand daughter stay over,and I see how she wakes up.
First she lays still taking in the moment, hearing the morning sounds, then she leaps up full of excitement at a new day.We say a simple prayer Good morning God! Good morning Mary! Good morning guardian angel!
I want to try and see a new day as she does,recapture her love of life.I say my own grown up prayers a little later when she’s here.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I wish I were that happy to see a new day lately.
I should try your granddaughter’s method as I really need to work on my positive thinking and that sounds like a much better start than the way it’s been going for the last few months.

 

[Greenfields]

It’s really beautiful to see, and was a good lesson for me.Sorry things have been tough Tis ,I’m going to mass in a bit I’ll remember you there.Please pray for me too.ray:t2:

 

[christofirst]

I wish I were that happy to see a new day lately.

I was hoping your new black avatar wasn’t an indication of your mood . Prayers for you! I hope things get better for you, and that the bear can return someday soon.

What are your favourite morning prayers?

I pray the traditional Morning Offering I learned back in grade school: “Oh my Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart, the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, and the reunion of all Christians. I offer them for all the intentions of your bishops, for the apostleship of prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our Holy Father this month.”

Of course, if I happen to be aware of some sin on my conscience, I might start the day with an Act of Contrition, or even something as simple as, “Thank you, Lord, and I’m sorry, Lord.”

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I was hoping your new black avatar wasn’t an indication of your mood .

I am just hibearnating. It’s winter, and it’s dark in my den.

 

[Lee1]

First thing I try to make sure I’m properly awake before a prayer or my mind wanders a little and I could think an unguarded thought! Especially if I see it’s a dull day.

Then I speak to God a little and thank Him for a new day, sometimes I’m not convincing I must admit, then I pray the Lord’s Prayer, then a glory be, then a Hail Mary and then the Fatima prayer. Then I’m good to go.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

With “thank You” and a page from my red-letter Bible (might be less than a page if a particular verse really resonated with me).

 

[Greenfields]

The being properly awake part is something I need to work on,otherwise I find I’m repeating my self to make sure I’ve said prayers properly .Sometimes I will fall back on saying childhood prayers when my concentration isn’t very good ,they are very nice.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

I like to go for a walk with the barkers. Especially now the days are so wonderfully spring.

I am dealing with grief so talk a lot to God of recent events. Digesting them.

And doing some gardening, I am finally for the first time ever, able to have enough water for a garden. Its so decadent and luxurious but fun. Watering first thing, or planting something, or watching something actually growing from a seed.

 

[Bentaxle]

This is the one I use:

O my Jesus your heart was full of compassion for all men and women, especially those in pain and need. Help me this day to have a heart like yours. United with your sacrifice in the Mass, let me not be wrapped up in my own selfish concerns but always open to your presence in your children.

This prayer seems to address the things I need to pay attention to.

God bless

 

[Greenfields]

Thanks,it’s really nice

 

[Carmelite1983]

Every morning I grab my scapular and re-consecrate myself to Mary.

 

[Greenfields]

Do you have a set prayer,or make up your own?That’s a wonderful thing to do .

 

[sevenswords]

Each morning when I wake I go into auto pilot of Jesus have Mercy or |Jesus I love you, when I get over the grog I say Thank you Father for another day and follow with 1 Hour father 3 hail Marys Glory B and Jesus Have Mercy. I then thank him for all I have in the day staring with salvation through Jesus and Mary and ask for a blessing and to be a blessing.I then ask for protection on my family and neighbours and once that is done give the wife a kick and tell her to get up.

 

[Carmelite1983]

My own prayer

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Every morning I grab my scapular and re-consecrate myself to Mary.

I do this too but it’s not always in the morning. Because the prayer (set prayer) I say is pretty long, I do it when I get into the car for the first time, which means sometimes it’s done in the afternoon, but I try to do it once during every 24 hours and since I do have to drive somewhere almost every day even if it’s just to church or the convenience store, most days the car works well. I say a travel prayer, guardian angel prayer, St. Michael prayer, “morning offering” which includes kissing the scapular, re-consecrate myself to Mary, 3 Hail Marys and three O Mary Conceived Without Sin. This takes about 5 to 7 minutes all told.

I am not awake enough when I first wake up to rattle through all that though.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

This is a good thread, I’ve been thinking about this thread. This is the type of content I come on CAF to read, to be honest - it inspires me to do better.

When I was a young person there was a movie starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda called “Sometimes a Great Notion” (aka “Never Give an Inch”) about a union-busting logging family, based on a book by Ken Kesey. that he wrote before he got more famous for taking a lot of acid and traveling cross country in a psychedelic bus full of hippies. I was all excited to see this movie when it played on TV in the 70s because I was a big fan of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, but I ended up not liking the movie for a lot of reasons (Henry Fonda and Paul Newman’s characters were jerks and I was also brought up to think unions were forces for good, not evil). I watched the movie again as an adult and still thought Newman’s character was a jerk.

However, in the movie Newman has a brother played by Richard Jaeckel who is a devout Christian and a nice guy, sort of the Ned Flanders in the midst of a lot of questionable morality, and there is a scene where he wakes up and rolls out of bed saying “Bless this day, Lord” or something similar. This always stuck with me, partly because it was odd back in the 70s to see somebody on TV who wasn’t playing a preacher praying like that in a secular movie of this type. (Of course it ends up being a bit ironic as the Richard Jaeckel character ends up getting killed on the job by a log that pins him underwater and he drowns.)

It’s funny the little religious things you remember your whole life but that scene of “Bless this day” is one. I think I need to start doing that. There were a whole lot of years when I didn’t feel any of my days were particularly useful or worth anything, but I’ve now reached the point in life my mother was at when she used to tell me I should thank God every morning and I said, “What for?” and she’d say, “That you woke up!” I didn’t get it when I was young, but she was the age then that I am now, so now I get it.

 

[UpUpAndAway]

The first word out of my mouth each morning is serviam (“I will serve”).

Then I think of three things to thank God for.

Once I’m lucid enough, it’s time to pray Lauds.