Is there other prayers or ways to pray for 15 to 30 minutes. That is not the rosary

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The rosary seems to be the only way to pray for 15-30 minutes. Are there any other ways? Do you just open up a prayer book and read that ?
What have you done?
 
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Prayers of St Bridget. It’s a way of the cross that is very beautiful.

The Divine Mercy Chaplet can be said using Rosary Beads but is much shorter.
 
Yes.
  • The Liturgy of the Hours
  • Divine Mercy Chaplet
  • Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • a full Morning Offering
Etc
 
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My recommendation is the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Lectio Divina
 
Reading the Bible for 30 minutes; the above mentioned; litanies are quite long, and you can say/read more than one.
Or, simply, just say one Hail Mary or Our Heavenly Father once for each person in your family (extended included) - that will take some time as well.
Last, but not least - meditation is a prayer, lectio divina as well; and the prayer of the heart (just talk to the Lord, that’s definitely a prayer too).
 
You may also want to try the St. Michael’s Chaplet with EWTN’s YouTube channel, which runs for about 15 minutes flat.
 
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Divine Mercy Chaplet
Holy Face Chaplet
St. Michael Chaplet
Seven Sorrows Chaplet
Literally dozens of other chaplets (just search on the web)
Prayer of St. Bridget - 15 year version (this takes about 15 minutes)
Prayer of St. Bridget - 1 year version (this takes about 30 minutes)
Stations of the Cross
Read Scripture of your choice for one-half hour
Do the Liturgy of the Hours for the time closest to your prayer time
Meditate before the Blessed Sacrament or a crucifix, just focusing on the Jesus Prayer or similar phrase, for 15-30 minutes
Meditate on a Holy Mystery without praying the Rosary, for 15 minutes…or meditate on a set of mysteries for a few minutes each
Read a prayer book or a Holy Hour exercises book

I could go on and on but the point is that there are many, many, many ways to pray.
 
Extemporaneous prayer (just talking to God)

Reading of prayerful Scripture, like the Psalms.

Night Prayer from the LoH

Silence

The Jesus Prayer

Journaling

Prayer is communicating with God
 
I repeat the Our Father, as many times as I want or feel the need. It’s my “Jesus Prayer”. I found out later that one of the popes, John Paul II or Benedict, did that as well.
 
Our Holy Father often urges Catholics to carry a pocket book of the Gospels with them, so we can read it and prayerfully reflect on what we read every day, even in blocks of time that unpredictably come our way.
 
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If your parish is close, there is perhaps no better or more efficacious prayer than to simply sit in the Lord’s presence, adoring Him in silence.
 
I use the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy often.
 
Centering Prayer

Recommended to be done at least 20 minutes or more in the morning and 20 minutes or more in the evening.

Jim
 
People get confused…

Yes God wants us to pray to him of course he does.

But I can tell you now 100% I’ve heard the Lord speak and I always answer him ( my lord I can hear you)

Then I listen to his words and sometimes he isn’t happy. So I ask him to remember the good things I have done and plead for mercy.

These conversation can last 20 minutes easily. He’s never given me bad advice even though many times I have ignore his advice. The consequences can be pretty much very obvious afterwards.

Remember God wants us to listen also this is equally important as praying to him.

We can all pray but how many actually listen to God, Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit?

We can talk and listen to any one of the four at anytime if we open our hearts to them. I always pray for more knowledge and sometimes he’s explained things to me not even my priest can explain.
 
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I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the Stations of the Cross.

This is a devotion you can do throughout the year, not just during Lent. I know it is most popular during Lent, but in the pre-Vatican II era it remained a popular private devotion - especially on Fridays.

You don’t have to go to your church to do the Stations of the Cross, you can alternatively do them privately in your own home. You can even have your priest bless a special crucifix used specifically for this devotion (you would also kiss this crucifix when doing the devotion at home). They also have Stations of the Cross chaplets too!
 
The article has been proven to be borderline fraudulent, years ago.

Fr Dreher wrote the opposite of what Centering Prayer is, and what took place at the Abbey and the opposite of what Fr Keating taught about Centering Prayer. The Trappists Monks were not instructed how to meditate using Eastern Meditation, but rather, what the monks learned immediately, that Christianity already had a rich tradition of Contemplative Prayer going back to the 4th Century Mystics of the Desert. St Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross taught Contemplative Prayer, but called it, “interior prayer.”

Don’t confuse Centering Prayer with New Age Centering, which may be what Fr Dreher got confused with.

Jim
 
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Don’t confuse Centering Prayer with New Age Centering, which may be what Fr Dreher got confused with.
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This.

There is a dangerous form of centering prayer that is very Eastern and New Age. Authentic Catholic centering prayer, also called contemplative prayer, is basically akin to the practices of St. Teresa and St. John.

Do be careful that you don’t end up with the new age stuff.
 
This is why authors like Fr Martin Laird stopped using the term, “Centering Prayer,” and returned to the original term, “Quiet Prayer,” or “Prayer of Quiet.”

He said, the term “Centering Prayer” has different meanings to different people, so he went back to the original, “Quiet Prayer.” In fact, “Quiet Prayer,” is what Fr Keating and Fr Pennington called it originally.

Here’s the term from the 1917 version of the Catholic Encyclopedia
Prayer of Quiet

The Prayer of Quiet is regarded by all writers on mystical theology as one of the degrees of contemplation. It has to be distinguished therefore from meditation and from affective prayer. It holds an intermediary place between the latter and the prayerof union. As the name implies the prayer of quiet is that in which the soul experiences an extraordinary peace and rest, accompanied by delight or pleasure in contemplating God as present.
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608b.htm

Jim
 
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