Who do you pray with?

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Ideally I would create a poll on this, but I don’t think that is possible on this forum? Correct me if there is some way of doing this.

Anyway I was wondering - in normal non-covid times who do you predominantly pray with?

Alone? With spouse? With the whole family? As part of a prayer group? With a friend?

I’m sure most of us pray in various ways eg alone in the morning, but with spouse every evening etc.
And I expect many variations but I’m interested to hear how you spend the majority of your prayer time.

Also, with whom do you feel prayer time to be most beneficial/fruitful?
 
Here’s your poll:
Who do you Normally Pray With?
  • Alone
  • Spouse
  • Entire Family
  • Prayer Group
  • Friend
  • Other (Comment)
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I don’t seem to have a wheel button, hmm.
Ah well, thanks nonetheless.
 
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I pray alone, or with the people in the prayer intentions section.
 
Yeah I don’t have that. Though I use my phone so maybe that’s why. Oh well, the poll has been made now
 
I mostly pray alone. Sometimes I join a prayer group at church for a rosary or holy hour, although due to COVID I haven’t been doing as much of that. There has also been an Archdiocesan rosary group on Zoom that I joined every day during the shutdown and now since the shutdown ended I usually join them about once a week.
 
I pray alone mostly and as a preference but recently I have prayed the rosary in small groups (1 or 2) people and it has been better than I expected. Prior to covid I prayed the rosary in church once a week and went to Lent and Advent prayer groups as well as an Endow group, I miss all those. They were small groups of people you got to know well over the years and followed a program of material sort of prayerful study then prayers after and before.
 
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When my husband was alive, we prayed Night Prayer together. Now I pray it alone.

Prayer is an ongoing dialogue in my head much of my waking hours.

I pray with strangers who call the office asking for someone to pray with them, with people who come in and are hurting. I pray with friends and family who are far away over the phone.
 
The family I used to pray with died over the course of the last two years. I pray by myself now.

Insofar as fruitful / beneficial times, I just pray whenever I think of doing so. There’s no “best time” for prayer, in my opinion. Religious study is different, and I find I retain info best in the evenings, so that’s when I do that.
 
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I say grace before dinner with my husband, and occasionally vocal prayers with him, but that’s an exception. If it’s unavoidable without calling attention to myself, I’ll say the rosary as part of a group. I also pray with my parish when I attend Mass each day.

Otherwise, I pray alone. I have not found a recognizable connection to God in any kind of group prayer other than Mass – and even then, I usually have my head down and eyes closed, so I’m praying the public prayer in my own little world. After an incident early in my twenties when someone close to me responded to my prayer before a meal with, “You know, you don’t have to use so many words,” I never pray extemporaneously out loud in front of someone else (beyond the simple “God bless so-and-so”).

I find prayer time to be most beneficial/fruitful with Jesus/in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
 
I pray alone, with my family, with my Church, and through the prayer chain established at our parish. I think any time spent in prayer is fruitful. Obviously the less distracted you are the better for your own benefit; however, I think God honors our prayers regardless of our mental state.
 
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Strictly alone. My wife and I tried praying together when we were first married because we felt that was the thing we were supposed to do. After two attempts, however, we agreed it was not in any way comfortable or fulfilling and forty years later have never done it since.
 
There are lots of ways to pray, maybe you just have to find the one that works for you as a couple? My wife and I pray the LotH together, and sometimes the Rosary, but we both have our own unique ways to pray alone.
 
Thank you, Mike. It might be different if we were both interested in Catholicism but that is not in any sense the case. We are both very, very private people so it’s all good. 😀
 
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