What should a day in the life of a Catholic look like?

[HelenRose]

I am curious as to what a day in the life Catholic looks like?

Is there something we should be following like a guide to what daily life looks like or is it what each Catholic decides to do?

Not talking about work, or going to Mass on Sundays, or Saturday Evenings, or Holy Days of obligation, I’m talking about the times in between. Are we supposed to pray at certain times during the day? Are we supposed to read our Bibles twice a day?

I am just curious as to how much it differs from non-Catholics and since I am just coming back to Catholicism, I want to do it right.

This is an interesting question. I think it makes each one of us look at our lives and ask, “How does being a Catholic effect my life.”

There are those who have been given the vocation to be Nun or Monks, Priests, Sisters whose daily routine is completely centered around Prayer and the Church.

Lay people have other vocations. Some, like caregivers, have been given a vocation of self sacrifice. We may not always be thrilled about the vocations that we are given.

But each one of us live our lives. Nurses, teachers, office workers, laborers just try to follow the teachings of Christ to the best of their abilities.

God does not expect us to do the impossible. A busy working mother of five kids is not expected to pray to the extent of an elderly women who has the gift of time.

God in his infinite mercy and love knows what our lives our like. He wouldn’t expect a man with broken legs to walk up a hill, but He would expect this man’s friend to help him to a grocery store for food.