My NEW Personal Prayer Routine as a CATHOLIC

Amen sister in Christ ur a blessing to all! I pray the rosary a couple times a day, I pray the surrender novena, Divine Mercy, I listen to daily mass, I’m a OTR truck driver & I have time to pray for my family, friends & all humanity. My dad past away passed away in 2020 he loved the rosary, I had been praying the rosary by his bedside the night he passed away in his sleep, & our Blessed Mother appeared to me in a clear vision, she looked at me with her light brown eyes of mercy she was beautiful & a light was coming out from within her, please spread the rosary devotion. May u all have peace & joy in ur hearts. ❤📿🕊️

What would you recommend for a prayer life for a mom of young toddlers and babies? I have 8 month old twins and a 5 and almost 4 year old. I don’t have time to pray and even when I could pray I’m too tired. I would have to wake up at 5am or earlier in order to pray but I am up multiple times a night with babies. I feel like I’m very distant from God in this season of life and that seems so backwards to me because I’m living out the vocation he gave me and taking care of babies that he gave me.

I always start with an examination of conscience. I try to say the Rosary every day, along with the Divine Mercy chaplet and the Chaplet for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. I also say the prayer to St Michael (which has helped me SO much) and the Guardian Angel prayers. I end with prayers for my family, peace on Earth and the conversion of sinners. Plus always prayers of Thanksgiving.

A informative, timely video. I'd be interested if someone (anyone!) could estimate how much time someone spends in prayer.

I ask that because I've been spending some time staying with the Benedictine monks in Ireland and with the work of St. Benedict's insights, they seem to consider how the time of their: 1)work, 2) prayer, and 3) sleep takes. And roughly they are in 3 equivalent parts of 8 hours each! I pray every day for the Liturgy of the Hours, for anytime from 2 to 5 times per day. I also pray the rosary most of the times every day. When I was living in Ireland, I would attend Mass most, but not all of the days (I now living in India and daily Mass is next to impossible!) I also read / study the Bible most of the time, about 30 minutes per day. So, as best as I can estimate, my Catholic prayer life takes several hours of a day, but nowhere near of my friends who are the Benedictine monks.

I'd be interested to hear from "A Catholic Mom's Life", as well as anyone. Thanks for reading my comment. God Bless!

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Heather, you have caused me to pray more than I ever have in my entire life. Prayer is extremely important to me now and that stemmed from you. If I make it to Heaven, I will likely be forever indebted to you for your guidance and encouragement. Thank you so much!!

Your sincerity is such a gift to your listeners.

Please pray for children who are being trafficked and for Amber. Zaidan. Louie. Barry. Samantha and Charlotte xxx

Please pray to the Holy face. For reparation for blasphemy etc xx

You should do a video on the Bible! I’m new to learning and would love to learn more about the Bible and how to read it daily ❤️

Thank you. This was a really great video. Peace be with you.

Am going through separation with my wife, maybe divorce soon. Am trying to save the marriage all I could, but her hardened heart wouldn't budge at all. She is just holding onto so much negative resentment towards me. I pity my 3 kids who couldn't have a completely loving family. Keep praying to Mother Mary for the intercession of my troubled marriage. It's been a year since we in separate rooms. The kids suffered from it the most.

Do have The Great Adventure Catholic Bible ?

I pray more after seeing this video. Thank you Heather

Thank you for sharing the PAL “method” of prayer. very encouraging

Jesus and me Holy mass first than all else

When you say God has been very generous to you because you have a great life and that you are very grateful, that is easy to do. The challenge is for those who are really struggling in life and have so many issues and nothing seems to work out for them. People that have cancer, financial issues, drug problems, depression, no source of income or food to eat, physically abused. I look up to those people that struggle and are close to God and pray.

This is very useful thank you, I will definitely try incorporating the Bible to my daily prayer 🙏

By far my favourite prayers are found in the small prayer book Mother Love, that was written a long time ago. But I love all the prayers in it. I start with a morning offering over myself and then over my children, at night blessing them with Holy water but most important everyday is a family Rosary with all 9 kiddos. It can be crazy with toddlers but they do soak it in too. Prayer is sooo important ❤

I have a yearning to grow closer to God. Thank you for this timely video.

I grew up in an extremely Catholic home, but can you believe we never had the Bible? I am sure my family had it somewhere, but we didn’t read it at home. My husband and I still continue on our Catholic faith but I really want to get into the Bible more. I have been doing the Bible in a year (for over a year now, I listen to it on my commute to work but honestly, I switch between that, podcasts, and audiobooks so it has taken me over a year). I also read the Bible on the Ascension app, but I am a pen and paper girl and honestly need a hard copy. I have ordered about 5 and sent them back because the font was super small and the pages were so thin that I was nervous to mark them up.

My questions are:
1. What exact bible do you use? Do you highlight in it or anything or just read it?
2. Do you follow a specific reading plan or just go wherever your heart calls you daily?
3. How many times have you finished the Bible, if you have finished reading it?
4. Is your Bible just for you or your whole family? I want to get the Ascension Bible large print for me, along with the leather like version for my husband. I also want a miraculous medal and a new crucifix for my home but honestly, all I see is the over $400 that would all cost me. It’s overwhelming but I am not a new Catholic and feel called to these items.
5. Does your husband read the Bible? Does he have his own? Any tips that he has for my husband?
6. What about your children?

I just need all of the details because I have honestly been called for 3 years with a lot of things that I keep getting anxiety over because I want to get it right. Like I am terrified to buy an $80 Bible and mark it up- what if I highlight too much or mark it up wrong? What if I go back to that section and then what I highlighted is no longer as important as another part?


I keep praying to God over these things because I spend hours each night researching thinking I will find some miracle (I have done this for 2 solid years) and it honestly then just takes so much time away from my other priorities.

I go to Holy Mass everyday but Saturdays and I pray the whole Rosary (the 4 of them) but still feel alone. I know that I need to try harder to get to the point which most of you are at. I think that my main problem is that I can’t talk about my faith to anybody, my family and friends are not interested in Jesus.

Another alternative to the PAL method is PRAY.

P: praise (sing praise and worship song, prayers of thanksgiving)

R: repent (examination of conscience)

A: ask (prayers of petition)

Y: yield (silence, letting God speak to us in Scripture)

Heather, what bible do you use?

Hi Heather! May I know the name of the Bible you are using and may I know where got the Bible case cover. It's beautiful. Thank you❤

Please I have a personal question can you kindly assist me on how I can reach out to you?

Thank you so much.

Love your videos!

Sono iltaliana e ascolto spesso i tuoi consigli sei una bella persona in cammino verso la santità.Ti ascolto volentieri anche perché capisco bene l, inglese ho vissuto la mia infanzia in Canada ma vivo in Italia da quando avevo 12 anni sono sposata da 32e sono già nonna.Grazie per i tuoi video ❤

I loved this video. It made me realize that I’m not praying wrong because sometimes I feel God doesn’t listen to my prayers. But you have helped me realize that God works in a different way then I thought. ❤

I wish I had a Catholic women like you. God Bless you and thank you. I do a morning prayer and evening prayer.

Thank you Heather, loved all the ideas❤

2019 my mom passed away. Back then I was Protestant, I came back to Catholicism and I want to thank you for showing me Rosary.
Unfortunately, 2019 when mother passed away people plotted or tried to scam me. I have addiction of smoking cigarettes, but I went to my Catholic Church. I am frustrated because tried so hard to hurt, because of the Rosary, my Saint Michael to protect me.

I'm going to practice PAL today during my adoration hour. Thanks!

Hi, I have a question for you. I’ve been noticing a trend that people have been putting their rosaries around their neck as a necklace I was under the impression that you’re not supposed to do that. Is that true?

This is SO HELPFUL THANK YOU!!!!!!

I am praying the Liturgy of the hours. I downloaded the divine office app and says out load. A also have a book a called “ A Catholic Book of Prayers” by Rev Maurus Fitzerald. It’s a small book. It’s hard to start from once you start you start connecting with God. Also the hallow app has SOO many free prayers.

really needed this❤❤❤

Oh I haven't heard of a prayer pattern like that before, that's really interesting. My prayer routine is I sleep holding onto my Rosary and in the morning, whilst I'm still laying in bed, I do a Rosary followed by the following prayers: Morning Offering, Traditional Act of Contrition, Armour of God, Guardian Angel prayer, St Michael the Archangel prayer, St Benedict Medal prayer then Prayer for Priests. If I have to travel to work early I will do all these prayers on the bus. I wonder if the order I've got this in is ok or could be rearranged to be better.

I need those prayers 🙏

Thank you! 😊🙏🏻

What a beautiful and helpful video Heather ❤

Same- I'm a morning person. I pray in the same chair. I pray the rosary daily with a rosary guide that gives meditation points as u say the Hail Mary's. I have a Catholic Bible where I read the daily Bible verses. I don't understand every Bible verse but it's called a faith journey for a reason

Love this ❤

God bless you. What a warm and heartfelt message on the beauty of prayer ❤

Hello Heather,

Am coming back to this video to say thank you for the tip on repeating prayer to myself at Mass...its been very helpful

I am a catholic from India.I Iove to watch your video. thank you.

Where did you get that bible cover?