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Augustine
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How did your prayer life start?
I can’t say I have one. I do have a habit of praying, but my sinfulness and lack of resolve keep me from letting God’s grace to work in me.
It all started a couple of years ago when I figured that as I went to Mass weekly, I should also pray daily. Then I noticed this small church on my way to work, where I’d stop to say a Pater and a decade of Ave Marias in front of a Pieta. Over time, I learned the Salve Regina and added petitions to a few of my favorite saints.
After a few months, I started missing a routine prayer in the weekends, so I started saying the Rosay every week. It wasn’t until the past Lent that I decided to say the Rosary daily.
I still stop at that church before getting to work every day and I changed the petitions to the saints to a litany, after being awed at the litany said at JP2’s funeral.
Prayer is a gift from God, despite our unworthiness. But we must let Him work in us and cooperate with Him. Yet, how can I teach my kids to have a prayer life?
I can’t say I have one. I do have a habit of praying, but my sinfulness and lack of resolve keep me from letting God’s grace to work in me.
It all started a couple of years ago when I figured that as I went to Mass weekly, I should also pray daily. Then I noticed this small church on my way to work, where I’d stop to say a Pater and a decade of Ave Marias in front of a Pieta. Over time, I learned the Salve Regina and added petitions to a few of my favorite saints.
After a few months, I started missing a routine prayer in the weekends, so I started saying the Rosay every week. It wasn’t until the past Lent that I decided to say the Rosary daily.
I still stop at that church before getting to work every day and I changed the petitions to the saints to a litany, after being awed at the litany said at JP2’s funeral.
Prayer is a gift from God, despite our unworthiness. But we must let Him work in us and cooperate with Him. Yet, how can I teach my kids to have a prayer life?