Tips for memorizing prayers?

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I try to memorize all the prayers I regularly say, so when I find myself in the car or someplace else where I can’t be reading a prayer, I can just recite the prayers. I have memorized quite a few, but I have a number of them I still need to memorize.

Anybody got any good tips for memorizing prayers?
 
schedule.

Say them morning, night, and a time in between… That’s how I learned the Act of Contrition (I didnt memorize it for my First Confession, for some reason- I was supposed to …)

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Saying it 3 times a day kind of worked for me with the Angelus, but I still had to concentrate and repeat it, or parts of it, a few times each time to get it by memory.
 
I had to set an alarm on my mobile phone to remind me to say it. Unfortunately, if I take my other mobile phone (the one for work) with me instead, it doesn’t go off and I forget, so now I have to set alarms on 2 mobile phones. It was easier when one was always within hearing distance of church bells that rang a pretty tune at 6, 12 and 6 to remind everybody who was too poor in those days to own a watch or a mobile phone hehe
 
Part of it may depend on how easy memorization is for you in general. When I was in school and had to memorize prayers, I would just pray them once a day at night before I went to bed for 2 weeks. By the end, I’d have it memorized.

I don’t think memorization comes to me as easily now as it once did, though. I may need a month instead. 😜
 
I mean the Angelus is pretty easy… just do it when you get up, at lunchtime, and then as close to 6pm as your schedule allows…
 
John Michael Talbot has some lovely sung prayers.

His sung version of the Magnificat is one of my favorite songs of all times.
 
TheLittleLady said:
What prayers do you want to memorize?
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Hmmm, I think next up is the Anima Christi. I’m still deciding which translation I want to use as I plan to say it in English first and there is a Newman translation and one that is the tradtional translation from Latin.

I’d love to memorize the St. Bridget 1-year prayers (the 15 prayers) but they’re so long that the year would be over before I learned all that by heart.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Part of it may depend on how easy memorization is for you in general.
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I’m middling to decent at it, but the issue is that I pray a lot of different prayers during the day so I have to pick one prayer at a time to get down pat. If I try to do several at once, I get mixed up. Even now I have to be careful that I don’t, for example, launch into part of the closing prayer of the Rosary while trying to say the closing prayer of the Angelus, that sort of thing, especially since I’m often reciting memorized prayers in a less than calm environment. I’m trying to teach myself to pray anyplace I happen to be, such as standing in lines, or in a noisy church with somebody’s kid running laps up and down the pew banging on it (this actually happened the other week), or in the car, etc.
 
As a person who does not memorize prayers, I am pleasantly impressed by your effort. I should say … keep it up.

I am only able to memorize the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, the Rosary and the Apostle Creed. The Act of Contrition - I need to practice everytime I went for Confession.

Probably that’s the reason why I do not do memorized prayers except for those common ones when I prayed. I just talk to God.

God bless.
 
Just talk to God! No fixed form!

If you insist on specific ones, just repeat them over and over!

I like the rosary, and have memorized all the parts, except the Hail Holy Queen - for some reason I can’t wrap my brain around all the adoring turns of phrasing in that one, I come close, but it’s in modern English so to speak!
 
To help you memorize anything, it’s a good idea to write out out on paper a few times.

By doing so, you’re storing the information in two parts of the brain which serves better for recall.

Jim
 
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