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For many of us, incorporating spiritual moments in our daily lives seems like an impossible task. Hereunder, we would like to share a few tips on how to incorporate prayer in our daily routines.

  • Take advantage of any opportunity to pray.
  • Memorize short prayers so you can say them often during the day without carrying a prayer book. In order to learn them by heart, you can hang them on the fridge or on the bathroom mirror.
  • Begin your day consecrating your family. An excellent opportunity to do this is during the morning shower. You can find plenty of consacration prayers in our Prayer Collection. You can print them out, cut the margin, laminate them and hang them in your shower.
  • Make night prayers brief and meaningful and do a simple examination of conscience. Here, you can think about the negative things that happened throughout the day and ask God for help and guidance, and then think about the positive things and thank God for these events.
  • When praying the rosary begin with one decade a day and then gradually increase the amount of decades.
  • You don't have to say the five decades at a time, you can spread your rosary over the entire day.
  • Take advantage of any moment throughout the day to say as many decades as you can (ea, when driving in the car, waiting on line, etc...).
  • Rosary tapes can be useful to listen to when traveling or commuting.
    Keep rosaries strategically placed throughout the house and keep one in the car.
  • Offer up chores and other duties as prayers.
  • In order to be reminded of the presence of God, it is good to choose television programs carefully, to listen to spiritual music and to keep spiritual object like crucifixes and holy pictures throughout the home.
  • Keep holy water around and use it abundantly.
  • Join a prayer group. You will experience how invigorating it is to pray with other people and pretty soon it will become a top priority in your agenda.

Source: The Catholic Mother's Resource Guide, Maria Compton-Hernandez

 


 

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