Where is your favourite place to pray?

[springbreeze]

Dear friends

Where is your favourite place to pray? for example, is your favourite place before the Blessed Sacrament, on a mountain side alone, in a garden, before a shrine, in your own room, in a prayer group etc. Or don’t you have a favourite place?

Why do you find this place helps you to talk with God?

Thank you for any replies

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa

 

[Catholicgolfer]

I like praying at out little chapel next to out regularly used church. Its so little with only about 10 pews on each side. I can be right there in front of the blessed sacrament and it feels a whole lot more personal.

 

[SpiritIsWilling]

I pray anywhere I feel the need to. I mostly like to pray during daily mass though, I feel really close to God.

 

[Pug]

I don’t know if I would say it is my favorite place, but I do pray the most consistently in the car. It is small, enclosed, quiet, and I have the time to talk to God then.

Of course, in a church would be nice, in front of Jesus, but around here they are locked. Yes, I could go to the parish office to get them to let me in, but that poses too large of an obstacle for me. If I really need to pray in front of Jesus, I drive to a church and park in the lot and pray. I am in no shape for a pleasant chat with the secretary if I NEED to pray in front of Jesus.

 

[ATeNumquam]

Pug:

I don’t know if I would say it is my favorite place, but I do pray the most consistently in the car. It is small, enclosed, quiet, and I have the time to talk to God then.

Pug, that takes me back to some of my best prayer memories!

At one time I used to live in rather noisy surroundings, and have always liked to pray in the early evenings. So I would drive just out the city a little to one or another nice spot where I could be quite alone, and pray in the car for as long as I liked -till it got dark.
Those were some of the times of deepest intimacy with God that I have ever experienced.
These days I do live in a very quiet area, and like to pray in an upstairs room with a peaceful view - in the evenings, in summer. Right now it is winter (here) and I just like to pray in my living room - on the sofa. I live alone, so I can pray as and when I please, which is itself a great blessing!

 

[CalledtoServe]

I pray when I’m walking around our fenced in property. It is calm & peaceful.

I think when I pray this way 1st thing in the morning with my hair a mess, old clothes on, no make-up, rosary dangling, and my mouth moving but no sound coming out, the early morning commuters are probably saying, “Look, they let out the crazy lady again”.

 

[Zooey]

In my own house…
My home has a real history to me. My (maternal)greatgrandparents bought it for my grandparents in the 1920’s. My family has lived here ever since.
My mom & daddy were married in this house. Daddy worked in a Christmas tree farm before they were married, & he gave her & my grandparents a tiny tree that was going to be thrown out when they thinned them. It still stands in my front yard where he planted it, before WW2.
I grew up in this house.
Every inch of it has been hallowed by the deep Christian faith of all these people. I know where Mom & Daddy stood when they took their wedding vows. I know where my grandmother would go to read her Bible & pray. (After more than 20 years, her apron still hangs in my kitchen).
I have all their Bibles on my bookshelves…all of them marked & worn by their use of them. I have the diary my greatgrandmother wrote in the last year of her life, & I have my other greatgrandmother’s Bible ( in Dutch) which she used to teach herself to read.
Where better to pray?