I need help in my morning prayer

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Somebody gave me a mini blue book called “A Simple Prayer Book” by Catholic Truth Society. I am trying to follow the morning prayer in the book but not sure how to proceed. If anybody have experience using this blue book please help. Should I:
  1. Start with Lord, open our lips. And we shall praise your name. Glory be to the Father…
  2. Then say the Psalm 99. Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth…
  3. Then read the Scripture from Rm 13:11-13. You know what hour it is, how it is full time now…
  4. Then say the Benedictus (Lk 1:68-79). Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel! He has …
  5. Then say the intercessions. Let us pray to Christ our Lord, the sun who enlightens all people. We thank you for the gift of this new day. Lord our Saviour, give us life!
  6. Then say the concluding prayer. Almighty God, you have given us this day…
  7. Then say. Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be. I believe.
  8. Then say the offering prayer. O my God, I offer you all my thoughts, words, …
  9. Then say the morning offering. O Jesus, through the most pure heart of Mary, I offer…
Should I say out all the 9 steps or are there few steps which I do not need to say. For example, do I still need to say step 8 and 9 after step 7? Thanks and God bless.
 
Sounds like a beautiful prayer! I am interested in the answers.
 
That’s a very comprehensive set of prayers and more than I’ve ever said on any morning! I’m not familiar with that book in question, but there’s no requirements for any morning prayers you have to say, or any specific order you have to say them in. The book sounds like more of a general guideline with prayers you can say if and when you wish to. Nothing wrong with only choosing to pray some of them; I think part of the purpose of such books is to give a lot of options so people can choose what appeals most to their personal spirituality.
 
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Should I say out all the 9 steps or are there few steps which I do not need to say.
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Our daily prayers are private devotions. There is no rule requiring us to say particular prayers (unless we are religious bound to a rule, for example.)
 
If you’d like a concluding answer, perhaps ask your confessor?
 
If you want to go strictly “by the book” with this (which as others have said, you’re not obligated to, and to my knowledge, this doesn’t align with any official translation anyway of an approved liturgy), you need to do the steps you’ve listed in sequence. 7-9 could be done in any order, even at the very beginning, but the order of the other steps should be preserved.
 
Sounds like it was based on the format of the Liturgy of the Hours (LOTH) for morning and evening prayer.

Since it is a private devotion, you may pray it any way you like. In the LOTH the order would be 1-5, then 7 (just the Our Father), then 6. The prayers included in 8 and 9 sound lovely, but are added to the LOTH format, rather than part of it.

If you’d like to know more about the official LOTH, you can get one of two apps (that I know of) that has those prayers: Laudete and iBreviary.

God bless you!
 
Saying all 9 steps would make a REALLY long prayer. I don’t think the book authors meant for you to say all 9 steps every morning. I think they meant for you to say 1 of the 9 steps and they were trying to give you a lot of different options to pick from for your morning prayers.

I just do the Morning Offering myself, and three Hail Marys and a really short Mary prayer that renews my consecration to Mary (since you likely haven’t done a Marian consecration at this stage you can skip that part).

I would suggest that you just pick one of the 9 steps and say it in the morning. If you like one of the prayers more than the others you could say that one regularly, or you could say a different step every day for 9 days and then start again with the first one, whatever you like.

Edited to add, if this is “A Simple Prayer Book” then I would hate to see a complicated prayer book…
 
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The steps do not look like they are separated prayers since there is a concluding prayer.
 
I still think it’s a lot and I would not expect anyone to do all of that for a “simple” morning prayer.

As someone said, prayer is a private devotion. Unless you are a priest or member of a religious Order that is bound to pray certain prayers in a particular form, or you are trying to meet the requirements for a particular indulgence that specifies exactly what to pray, then you are free to pray how you want.

If these are truly steps then to me it does sound like somebody tried to write their own version of Liturgy of the Hours. LOTH is a pretty complicated and long prayer and I would not recommend it to anyone just starting out and looking for “simple” prayers.

A morning prayer could be as simple as “Bless this day, O Lord” and then you go about your business. I see no point in making it huge and complex unless that’s what you want to do.
 
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I am a perfectionist btw.
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You’re missing the point. Unless you’re a member of an order who is required to pray certain prayers a certain way, there is no set morning prayer and thus no way for you to do it “perfectly.” It’s not a test for you to get an A+ on. It’s a way of calling God to mind early in the day and getting in the right mental framework. There are an infinite number of ways someone could do this, not one “perfect way.”

If you obsess about the exact right formula, you’re missing the point completely.
 
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If you obsess about the exact right formula, you’re missing the point completely.
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Maybe “Perfectionist” is the wrong word. I am a god-fearing person. I am worried that if I did not say the prayer in the correct order or missed something God might be angry at me.
 
God will NOT be angry at you over how you say a prayer as long as you are sincere.

He cares about what is in your heart, not whether you said the right “magic words”.
 
Remember, God is not a computer that won’t “work” if you don’t use the exact right commands. You have a relationship with God based on love. As long as your intention is sincere and good, God is not going to be angry because you didn’t use some particular wording.
 
@Tis_Bearself @BoomBoomMancini This is the book. Try to read it and tell me how to proceed. Ignore by beautiful hand lol!


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Here is what I would do for a morning prayer:

Just say the Morning Offering part.

And if you want to say something in addition to that (like a scripture reading or something), do so. Like if you have a lot of time and want to pray, then say the whole long thing or more parts of it than just Morning Offering. But it’s your choice.
I also say the Angelus three times a day at 6 am (my alarm goes off at 6 am so I usually say it the minute I wake up, in bed), noon, and 6 pm. I have a phone alarm set to tell me when to say it. The Angelus used to be a universal prayer for Catholics but it fell out of use, so I say it because it is traditional.
Because I say it so often I have it memorized so I don’t need to use a book.
Another really good and simple prayer is Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be

OR Three Hail Marys

You can just say either of those any time during the day.
 
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You can use the book if you find it helpful and have the time. Just don’t get obsessed with it and think that if you don’t follow the formula in the book you’re doing it “wrong.” It’s a tool, not a requirement.
 
That is a modified version if the Liturgy of the Hours. I try to pray the LOTH morning and evening.

Firstly, the author/publisher of your book did write it for you to pray all of that at once. Secondly, you don’t have to pray it as they write it because A. it is already a modification B. You are not under any obligation to do what the author tells you C. You are not a religious or clergy or living under some third order rule that requires that you do your prayers a certain way. D. Prayer is a private devotion and you can make your prayer time whatever you want it to be.
 
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