What are your regular daily prayers?

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We all know that the Rosary is a great daily prayer. But it has begun to bother me a bit that I devote 15 minutes a day to Our Lady while I don’t feel like I devote more time in daily prayer to Our Lord. So I’m looking for advice from others, so I can lengthen my time praying to Jesus, spending longer with Him than with Mary, and hopefully strengthening my relationship with the Big Boss. 🙂

Some options I already know of
-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (but there’s no way I can do it for more than 15 minutes a day)
-Stations of the Cross
-Chaplet of Divine Mercy (but if it’s recited, it takes less than five minutes to do)
-Meditation or reading Scripture (but I would do those things anyway, and they don’t count as verbal prayers to me)
-Singing Psalms or other Hymns
-Using a Prayer Rope/Jesus Prayer
-Liturgy of the Hours (a long task that I’m not ready for quite yet)
-Mass of course (but I’m not always able to make it to daily Mass)

Any other suggestions?
 
simply being with God (though its not always as simple as it sounds)
 
PazzoGrande said:
We all know that the Rosary is a great daily prayer. But it has begun to bother me a bit that I devote 15 minutes a day to Our Lady while I don’t feel like I devote more time in daily prayer to Our Lord. So I’m looking for advice from others, so I can lengthen my time praying to Jesus, spending longer with Him than with Mary, and hopefully strengthening my relationship with the Big Boss. 🙂
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For me its really not like that, one to the exclusion of the other. For me one does not does not take away from the other. It is always good to strenghthen our relationship with Christ, but it need not be at the expense of the other.

Jesus is the King of kings and Mary is his Queen. Our relationship with Christ will be strengthened by our relationship with his Mother and Queen, the Bride of the Holy Spirit, Mary. The experience of some is that Mary is the quickest way to Christ. I’m sure it is not everyone’s experience but it has been mine.

For me, the easiest prayer is just recollection of God throughout the day. Just remembering that he exists, that he is part of my life, that I love him and he loves me, and maybe even a mention of his name, the name of Jesus or just a thought about God or Jesus many times throughout the day. Putting God present in my mind for a moment during a business meeting or as I drive is a very easy and quick way to make God part of my life.

-Tim-
 
The Chaplet of Saint Michael is longer than the Divine Mercy chaplet. One prays to God through the intercession of St. Michael and the angels of the angelic choirs, as well as your guardian angel. EWTN sells a good little DVD and book on it at their religious catalogue. You can get the rosary like string and beads set for this chaplet on ebay search St. Michael chaplet or look somewhere else on the web because Ebay is not that holy (I heard they support Planned Parenthood) see link

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There is the:

angel of god, my guardian dear,
to whom God’s love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
 
There are any number of prayer books available in Catholic bookstores and gift shops, and in stores like Barnes and Noble. Browse through and see what catches you.

Personally, I begin the day by reciting the Our Father, and by praying that the Lord
keep me from falling into sin, then I recite the Salve Regina. If time allows, I try to make it to morning Mass a few times a week, but that isn’t possible everyday.

I say Grace before every meal.

In the evening, I usually say the rosary, followed by the Divine Mercy Chaplet, if I haven’t done so in the morning. I follow with the Service of Compline from the Book of Common Prayer (I used to be an Episcopalian). The Episcopal version has fewer Marian devotions, than the Catholic one, but is very similar.

I especially like the antiphon, “Guide us waking, and guard us sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace,” and the collect, 'Keep watch, Dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give Your [Holy] angels charge over those who sleep.Tend the sick, Lord Christ, give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted,shield the joyous; and all for you Love’s sake." I also add my own petitions–those on my personal prayer list.

One suggestion is to recite the Psalter, regularly, possibly by simply using those from the daily Mass Lectionary, or from the Daily Office. The Psalms of David are lovely and inspiring.
 
Morning prayer from Magnificat (simialr to LOTH)
daily Mass readings (does not always happen)
Novena (perpetual or something for a specific intent)
Evening prayer

I don’t say a rosary every day these days; although I have in the past. I’d like to get back into the habit.
 
On most days, Vigils, Lauds, Terce, Sext, Vespers and Compline, using an approved two week cycle monastic Liturgy of the Hours.
 
I always begin each day with the Our Father, then a prayer of guidance for the day, an offering prayer, and then the rosary. At the end of the day, I again pray the Our Father, an evening prayer of thanksgiving, an act of contrition, reading and meditating on some Bible scripture and closing the day with a prayer to Jesus for all who do not know Him, for the unborn, for the Pope and for our priests, and for all my friends and family and their needs (this is where it can get lengthy, LOL). Throughout the day, I make sure to bless myself with holy water every chance I get (along with saying, “By this Holy Water and by Your Precious Blood, Lord Jesus, wash away all my sins.”) Some days I add in some extra prayers to our sweet Lord but this is usually how it goes without fail. 😉
 
LOTH but not the midmorning, mid-day or midafternoon. Don’t have the time. Do what you can, start out slowly and build up. I found out doing all the prayers everyday to much and caused me anxiety.

Prayer of thankging and supplication. Prayer to the Saints. Decade of the rosary.
 
I seem to have Psalm 63 on my mind lately

*O God, you are my God
For you I long.
For you my soul is thirsting
like a dry weary land without water.
I long to gaze on you in the sanctuary
to see your strength and your glory,
for your love is better than life. *

-Tim-
 
I’ve tried all the prayers, but the one that works for me is the Rosary first thing in the morning. Following my workout, it’s my two cups of coffee and reading the Bible (reading the Bible is also a form of prayer). I used to do LOTH, but I have to flip through pages and it can get confusing plus if I miss morning or evening, it becomes a source of anxiety for me. So the Rosary is ideal, and can be done at any time of day.
 
Morning offering, grace before meals, rosary, act of contrition at bedtime after exam of conscience. For a fresh prayer,I refer to a small paperback Catholic prayerbook. There are hundreds of beautiful and mostly very short prayers in it by Saints and sinners like me. Remember God in all things and seek to hear His voice .
 
While I don’t have a set routine of prayers, in general they tend to run as follows:

I generally start the day with an Our Father followed by a short prayer asking Christ to guide me in my day. After that I might say the Prayer of St Francis or the Lorica of St. Patrick if I have more time. Since I rarely make daily mass I try to remember to pray an act of spiritual communion and the Anima Christi in the early part of the day. I pray a short act of contrition before bed and an Our Father.

I would love to pray the LOTH in a group, but there isn’t really any communal prayer groups near me. I will do it on occasion, but it doesn’t feel the same as when doing it in a group so I often slip in and out of doing it on my own.

I am trying to remember to say more prayers of thanks giving through out the day rather than prayers of supplication.
 
Mrs Sally has a good idea. If the LOTH seems to daunting, read the morning , evening and night prayers from the Magnificat. That helped me get into the rythym before I began the LOTH. That is much easier and it gets you formiliar with the prayers and responses.
 
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