Prayer journal entry 1/28/08

1/28/08 (Feast of St. Thomas)

Well, the format I spelled out before worked for the first week. But, once my house filled back up with kids and wives (OK, just one), it because less manageable.

I missed a few morning sessions. In those cases, I tried to add prayer times in the afternoons. But, this format is hard to do once the day is in full swing. So, I’ve been using the rosary for afternoon or mid day prayers.

I need to give credit to the rosary army folk. I put their “scriptural rosary” pages on my blackberry, and have used them to good effect walking in the park behind my house. I also got the mp3 files of the scriptural rosary, and prayed a rosary listening to them on Sunday after church in the Marian garden.

I’d never done the mysteries as part of the rosary before a few weeks ago. Using them really changes the whole tone of the rosary prayer to a more meditative one. I think the scriptural rosary works very well for me, since there is a “prompting” before each bead.

This morning, I was able to do the 10 min reading and quiet format. But, I think I was also falling asleep a bit.