Prayerfulness is deeply a part of you: in body, mind and spirit.
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Night Prayer
A Story: The Dawn Chorus
PRIVATE PRAYER and COMMUNITY PRAYER
- Your Prayerfulness can be a quiet moment, a meditation, a thanksgiving, or a time for calling on the Lord for help and guidance, and praying for your needs and the needs of others.
- You can offer moments of prayer throughout your whole day – alone and privately within yourself. You can also have set times in the day when you are quiet and in prayer.
- Then at times you may wish to gather with others to share this time of prayer, and of worship; and so share and be part of a community of prayer.
- AND you can offer or say a set of prayers alone and privately, that will also be said or offered by others in their quiet time.
- This way you are part of a community of prayer when alone and when you gather together.
Use no words, or just one word or a phrase; or read or recite a set of prayers
Each day set aside time for daily prayer – to be still and quiet. (See Time for Prayer)
You do not need to use lots of words. Read the Gospels of St Matthew 6:1-15 and St Luke 11:2-4, Jesus gives us the Lord’s Pray, the Our Father.
At times it will be enough to be still, and at times it will be enough and wonderful just to say and repeat one word or a short phrase, or to repeat just one prayer. This could be your MANTRA: a word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation. Many who have grown in Prayerfulness follow this way of prayer or meditation or deep contemplation.
You could simply say and repeat in your mind or aloud:
- Father
- Son
- Holy Spirit
- Jesus
- My Lord and my God
- Jesus I trust in You
- My God I praise You
- My God I thank You
- My God I love You
…or read or recite a set of prayers
Often also it is wonderful, and helpful, and can also be a meditation, to read or recite a set of prayers. This would also include a passage from the bible or from another writer whose work you have found inspiring and helpful.
In your Prayerfulness and in these times:
- offer prayers of praise
- of love
- of thanksgiving
- and you can offer prayers seeking the Lord’s help for your needs and the needs of all around you (See Your Prayers)
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Examples:
The examples included in Prayerfulness.com are suggested sets of prayers to help you:
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Night Prayer
There are more suggestions in the HOURS OF THE DAY and in DEVOTIONS.
Follow the SUNDAY READINGS from Scripture, and read and reflect on them as part of your daily prayer.
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Always begin by saying:
“In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen”.
- This on it own can be a wonderful prayer.
- Offer your day, your time and your prayer by proclaiming these Names; and each time you begin and end your prayer.
- In your prayer or at the end of your prayer you could also say:
