Married couples praying together

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I was wondering if any married couples pray together everyday. My wife is Catholic, but does not pray regularly. I am starting RCIA and thought that it would be good for us to pray together. I assumed that it would be great to show god our worship, and bring us closer together. If you do pray together, do you have certain prayers?
 
My wife and myself pray the Liturgy of the Hours together, and we are scheduled adorers at the adoration chapel, every Saturday.

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My husband & I pray the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary daily. We also add some other prayers, like the Morning Offering, a prayer for priests, and this one:

Lord Jesus, grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. Give us the grace to live with each other in peace and harmony. May we always bear with one another’s weaknesses and grow from each other’s strengths. Help us to forgive one another’s failings and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness, and the spirit of placing the well-being of one another ahead of self.
May the love that brought us together grow and mature with each passing year. Bring us both ever closer to You through our love for each other. Let our love grow to perfection. Amen.

Peace,
Linda
 
Oh, I wish I could! My husband doesn’t believe in God (yet!). Keep him in your prayers …
 
My husband and I pray the Holy Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy together daily and we are also weekly Adorers, and of course attend Mass together. Read a little of the Bible together too. Pray a blessing before meals together, Hail Mary’s throughout the day together…thats about it I think…as for praying together.
We always pray for the intentions of our family, to end abortion in our world, for all Priests and Religious and most especially for Vocations to the Priesthood, the poor souls in purgatory, and many other intentions as well as those of all the members of this forumn in our prayers.
As a matter of fact, we end our intentions with…“and for the whole world and all the poor souls in purgatory.”
We pray privately too.
 
PhilotheaZ said:
Oh, I wish I could! My husband doesn’t believe in God (yet!). Keep him in your prayers …
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I take any people who want prayer or I decide to pray for so from now until I die you are on my prayer chain since I have now put you there and tell God that I pray for those on the prayer chain every time I pray. This could be 100 times per day. I also pray a prayer to Jesus God of restoration to restore all families telling Jesus that He is the God of restoration.

Godbless.
 
I read the liturgy of the word and my wife often, reads with me.
Godbless
 
mkipp said:
I was wondering if any married couples pray together everyday. My wife is Catholic, but does not pray regularly. I am starting RCIA and thought that it would be good for us to pray together. I assumed that it would be great to show god our worship, and bring us closer together. If you do pray together, do you have certain prayers?
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We do pray together each night before sleeping, adore the Holy Eucharist for an hour together each Tuesday, attend Catholic lectures together, and of course mass together. I try to get in the rosary in the mornings, and typically have the rosary playing in the car while whether alone or we are together (avail at RosaryArmy).

When we started Eucharistic adoration together, this had a wonderful additional effect of enriching our relationship beyond where it was before, as well as individual enrichment as well. Every time we have gone, something good happens in the way of healing, understanding, deepening of love, etc… never know in which aspect of life it will be.

I can’t stress enough the need to pray together and fully recommend Eucharistic adoration together as well.
 
My wife and I pray the Rosary every night-no matter how our day went. I never would’ve guessed it could become such a priority for us. We usually add prayers, petitions, thanks, etc. before we start.
 
I am new here but what does "adore the Holy Eucharist " mean.
God Bless
 
mkipp said:
I am new here but what does "adore the Holy Eucharist " mean.
God Bless
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After consecration, the host becomes the Holy Eucharist which is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ. In the last supper, Jesus said “This is my body” … and “This is my blood.” We believe Him. He did not say, this bread has a blessing, or my spirit is united to this bread, or this bread is a metaphor for my body. He said, “This is my body.”

In Eucharistic adoration, the Eucharist is exposed in a monstrance, and people adore Christ in His presence in the Eucharist. It’s wonderful that when two or more are gathered in His name, He is there spiritually…, but this Eucharist is the real and true presence of Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. We worship and adore Jesus Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharistic presence of Christ. To the contrary, to worship an unconsecrated host is idolatry.

This is the same Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity that we receive when we receive the Holy Eucharist in Holy Communion at mass.

The Holy Eucharist is the summit of Christian life on earth. It is the greatest of the Sacraments, because in it we receive Him whole and entire, to unite us with Him. As members of His family, we share His Body and Blood.

The idea of the Eucharist may be one of the most difficult things we are called to understand and believe, at least initially, in that we are called to essentially go beyond appearances and see with the eyes of faith, believing in Christ’s words that He has done what He proclaimed. I feel so wonderfully graced even talking about the Eucharist, that tears of joy come to my eyes at this moment. How fortunate are we to be able to be in His presence in this way, and what’s more to receive Him in the mass. It’s incomparable.

Please also note that valid consecration can only occur in a Church with valid apostolic succession, as in the Catholic Church. You’re in the right place. It can not occur in protestant churches, and they don’t believe in transubstantiation anyway.

There are some words you may not be fully familiar with yet, but you will as you go through RCIA and in your life as a Catholic.
 
mkipp said:
My question is hoe do you practice the Eucharist at home.
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You don’t, in the sense of having a Eucharist (consecrated host) at home to worship and adore. We have a St. Jude Chapel at Church where there is 24 hour adoration. Sometimes it will be done on the main altar (not 24 hour adoration). Unless for special reasons, like delivering the Eucharist to sick and home bound, and by those who have this ministry, we don’t take the Eucharist out of Church. Lay people like you and I would never take the Eucharist out of Church. It’s an abuse not to consume the Eucharist during Holy Communion at mass, in favor of taking it with you.

It doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Christ at home, but that you won’t have the Holy Eucharist displayed in your home.
 
mkipp said:
My question is how do you practice the Eucharist at home.
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There are other things you can do at home, like have your home blessed by a priest. You can use holy water in your house, to bless yourselves and you home. The other things that people have mentioned, like praying the Rosary, praying at night, in the morning, throughout the day, asking Christ to be with you and live in you… These things protect you, and help you become stronger in your walk with Christ, and in your marriage. We also are called to imitate Christ’s relationship with the Church, his bride, in our marriage. The home is also called a domestic church, to carry the mission of the Gospel into our daily lives, where the word of God is respected, promoted and preserved and the fruits of God’s word are made manifest. We seek Christ’s presence, and his love in our homes.

While you won’t have a consecrated host in your home, you can be a temple of the Lord, so that His presence is in you.

All this can be overwhelming if you try to begin this all at once. You don’t have to do all of this at once, and I would say that you need to start with something reasonable and small compared to all the things mentioned on this thread, and then add things as you grow in faith journey, as things become second nature and simply the way things are done. Pretty soon, these things are simply a way of life. It is highly recommended that you begin praying together as soon as possible. There is nothing too small or too large for the Lord.
 
I appreciate all the help MDK. I am just so excited to be joining the church. I just want my wife to get back to church as she is a Catholic but does not always attend mass. I feel and hope that this will bring us closer and more happiness. I we have a great marriage I just want god to be more apart of it. We are thinking of having children soon and I want us to be as close to god as possible in our lives together so we can give that to our children. My wife seems abit overwhelmed by my excitment over conversions to the Catholic faith
 
mkipp said:
I appreciate all the help MDK. I am just so excited to be joining the church. I just want my wife to get back to church as she is a Catholic but does not always attend mass. I feel and hope that this will bring us closer and more happiness. I we have a great marriage I just want god to be more apart of it. We are thinking of having children soon and I want us to be as close to god as possible in our lives together so we can give that to our children. My wife seems abit overwhelmed by my excitment over conversions to the Catholic faith
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Enthusiasm is contagious.

May God bless you, your wife, and your marriage.
 
quite frankly, I can’t picture myself in a marriage without prayer together…I would imagine those couples who pray together have very strong marriages.
 
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