Your Prayer Schedule?

[BarbTherese]

As a layperson (private vows and specific lifestyle with direction) living alone, I found that going by the clock prayerwise would not work for me. It is an entirely different situation, and meant to be so, in say monastic life where duties for the day can be spread over a few people and the whole way of life is structured around prayer and it is generally accepted that this does apply.

I break my day into:
Rising
Beginning duties for the day
Break during the day
Ending duties for the day
Bedding down for the night

Fridays - Chaplet of Mercy
Saturdays - Rosary
Sundays - Lectio
Adoration is a bus trip away plus a bit of a walk and I will be fitting this in whenever I can. I have only recently shifted to this residence, meaning new parish etc.

And a particular prayer time (including time for private prayer) marks the beginning of each of the above, except for getting up or rising, when I pray The Morning Offering and read the Gospel with Gospel Meditation after rising.
I am a student at college part time and on days I am at college, I need to vary the above, which I do. Also sometimes appointments during the day or some other factor asks that the above be varied.

I can always, however, when my own standard prayer times just will not work, unite myself with The Prayer of The Church and our monastics who pray with and also on our behalf. Doctrine of The Mystical Body of Christ. When out and about and waiting at bus stops and travelling (I dont have a vehicle) I use the Little Office of Our Lady which is quite compact and fits easily into my bag, and always have a Rosary in my bag. Generally I use "Prayers from The Divine Office" rather than the 4 volume Divine Office.

After the Morning Offering and Gospel and Meditation, I set up my "To Be Done" list for the day. For me, this To Be Done list helps me free my mind from distractions about the day as I know I have written down what I simply must do and when (if a "when" applies).
And days always crop up when my whole setup goes completely south and up a creek.

Barb

Edited January 10, 2010 by BarbaraTherese