Jan. 23, 2018

While You Were Folding 004: Prayer With Amy Zeleny

While You Were Folding 004: Prayer With Amy Zeleny
While You Were Folding 004: Prayer With Amy Zeleny
While You Were Folding
While You Were Folding 004: Prayer With Amy Zeleny
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Links/Resources mentioned in this episode:
My kitchen phone charger
The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood (Note to perfectionists like me: Amy warns us to read this one with caution!)

Amy was also kind enough to send along what she calls a “generic day” at her house:

At the end, you asked about other resources or ideas. Not sure if it’s helpful but what we do is – punctuate the day with prayer, anchoring prayer to other activities until a habit is formed. I try to structure the time and vary the content. Here is what a generic day looks like:
  • Wake – morning prayer (morning offering, some Bible or meditative reading or copying scripture in a notebook) – 5 to 30 minutes
  • 7:30am – Meal Prayer
  • 8:30am – Start school – morning offering with the kids, spontaneous prayer with kids – we each ask for help with a virtue that we need, saint of the day and ask for their intercession, we memorize some Scripture to help us at tough moments during the day (right now, Psalm 27)
  • During the day – pray for patience and gentleness, as needed
  • 11:30 – Meal Prayer and Angelus
  • Quiet time – I read (something from one of my book groups), pray, or listen to a podcast
  • 3pm – Divine Mercy Chaplet to end school day
  • 4pm – we go to Daily Mass and often 4pm or 5pm
  • I like to pray in the car to reset any issues of the day. We also pray the “Eternal rest prayer” when we pass a cemetery.
  • Meal prayer
  • Sometimes a family rosary
  • Evening prayer with the children
  • Evening prayer with Mike
  • Reading (current bedside meditative reading – Fulfillment of All Desire (Martin), Imitation of Christ (Kempis), An Edith Stein book, Mere Christianity (Lewis), and my fav – The Diary of St. Faustina
    • I read little sections and pray about it.
As you could guess, plans do not always happen as outlined. The stuff that sticks are the things attached to an already formed habit. St. Teresa of Calcutta reminds of our call to faithfulness, not success.
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