POLL: When do you do your quiet time?

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I.e. when do you have your daily moment with God?
I know it should be all day but thats not what I’m asking. I mean when do you sit down with your bible and study the Word?

I try to do it first thing in the morning.
 
dillonhudson said:
I.e. when do you have your daily moment with God?
I know it should be all day but thats not what I’m asking. I mean when do you sit down with your bible and study the Word?

I try to do it first thing in the morning.
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I have five such moments daily, when I do the five offices of the Divine Office aka Liturgy Of The Hours. Plus after 10 PM, the apartment complex I live in wants quiet. So I turn off the radio or CD, and have an hour or two for reading, prayer, meditation, and contemplation.:crossrc:

As you have probably guessed, I’m retired:D
 
Haha wow! :eek: That’s amazing that you do all of that! I’m a college kid trying to find my way and doing half an hour is a struggle for me!

Right now I’m reading and studying a chapter of Proverbs every day 👍
 
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Haha wow! :eek: That’s amazing that you do all of that! I’m a college kid trying to find my way and doing half an hour is a struggle for me!

Right now I’m reading and studying a chapter of Proverbs every day 👍
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Good for you! 👍 That’s an excellent practice :).

I go to daily Mass each day, so I get my scripture from there, but if I dialogue with people online, I frequently do a good deal of additional scripture reading online. After Mass each day, I spend 40 minutes to an hour in Eucharistic Adoration.
 
Not at the same time every day. Sometimes after mass if I’m not committed to something else that day. I have a key to the church so I sometimes go there in the evening. I’ve even done it in the car if my day involves going from place to place but I have a free half hour somewhere. I usually try to plan at the beginning of each day when I will do it or I may forget until it’s late and I’m really tired.
 
Wow a key to the church huh? That’s pretty cool 😉

Yeah I find when going through proverbs I’ll pickup other references to other verses and kind of explore the scriptures a little.

For example I was going through Proverbs 14, specifically verse 31, and I stumbled onto an age-old debate:
biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+2:14-26&version=NKJV

Well maybe not an age-old debate but an age-old misconception. Either way I thought that was pretty cool.
 
dillonhudson said:
I.e. when do you have your daily moment with God?
I know it should be all day but thats not what I’m asking. I mean when do you sit down with your bible and study the Word?

I try to do it first thing in the morning.
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for me if it doesn’t happen early in the morning it won’t happen at all because once I leave the house I don’t have quiet time, and too tired at night. I pray of course before bed but simply too exhausted to focus on the Word.
I have a key to the church
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so do I but I thought that phrase meant something else to the average college student. I could go into Church in the middle of the day, but I feel wrong to when other parishioners don’t have that access, so I go to the Blessed Sacrament chapel instead, but if I there for any length of time I am almost always interrupted. For adoration I go to another parish where nobody knows me.
 
I prefer to do mine in the morning while I’m fresh and my mind is the most alert! :coffeeread:
Otherwise, by the end of the day, when I’m tired, I don’t feel like I’m giving the Lord the best part of me.
 
puzzleannie said:
for me if it doesn’t happen early in the morning it won’t happen at all because once I leave the house I don’t have quiet time, and too tired at night. I pray of course before bed but simply too exhausted to focus on the Word.
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Deedledum said:
I prefer to do mine in the morning while I’m fresh and my mind is the most alert! :coffeeread:
Otherwise, by the end of the day, when I’m tired, I don’t feel like I’m giving the Lord the best part of me.
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I agree with both of you guys, it’s so hard to do at night!
 
As soon as I wake up, I turn on the coffee and I go into my reading room (the kids have moved out) and pray the Liturgy of the Hours and then read the daily Mass readings in my Bible. Then I get ready for work, at work during my lunch I read in my Bible for about 30 mins. After work at 5:00 or 6:00 I pray the evening prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours and usually work on my Bible Study or read my Bible with commentery or some other reading.
 
Well as Christians we are not called to be average. We are called to be so much more. So just by reading the bible and studying the word you are well on your way to being extraordinary 😃
 
I spend an hour right before dinner and after I get home from working.
 
Depends. There’s quiet time with formal prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours, a few minutes of quiet time before mass, etc, etc. There’s quiet moments here and there when I read or hear something that really catches my attention. But at night when I do my examination of conscience/day in review I try and give myself at least 15 minutes, but I usually go longer (I pray the LOTH night prayer after if I’m not nodding off too much!). This is my private time with God. This is perhaps the best thing I’ve done for my prayer life.
 
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Wait so just one hour? You get home from work, study the word, then eat dinner? 🤷
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Alone in silence… yeah. That is my most peaceful time when I can be all alone with God.

That hour is my rosary time ect.

I love that time, puts me at peace.
 
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