VeraFloresDelaCruz: My Daily Round

For as long as I can remember, my family and I have prayed, in all things and on many occasions, both happy and sad.

My mom was a beautiful woman who called us together as children to pray together. The first prayer I learned was to my guardian angel. Short and sweet and easy to recall.

Prayer to Guardian Angel

The Morning Offering prayer is the second prayer of my daily round. As I rise, I pray the Guardian Angel prayer. After restroom duties, I make time for my morning prayers, giving thanks for my many blessings and receiving a new day, then The Morning Offering.

Since Christmas is coming, I'm sharing the following St. Andrew's Christmas Novena prayer. This prayer I was fortunate to learn about several years ago and have added to my daily round, every year from Nov 30 - Dec 24. I pray it several times a day.

Sunday mass, the greatest prayer, was a must and as I write this, I realize as a family we never missed mass since we were born. Our parents took us to mass every Sunday as children until we received the sacrament of Confirmation. After that we were expected to continue as adults. They guided our prayer life and made sure we received the sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion, Confirmation and we were blessed to have them celebrate the sacrament of Marriage with us.

The Holy Rosary is another favorite prayer taught to me & my siblings by my mom. Seeking Mary and meditating on the Mysteries allow us to seek Jesus through His holy mother.

My daily round consists of morning and evening prayers. Sunrise, midday, 3 o'clock, evening and before bed.

I give thanks and praise God, make my special requests through additional prayers for us and for others through the Holy Rosary and novenas to special saints depending on needs at that time. However, I've been praying a novena or two recently with an app I found online. It's called PRAY CATHOLIC NOVENAS and it's a free download. There are some novenas that have to be unlocked and there is a monthly fee to get all the novenas, but I just pray the ones that are free until I can afford to make payments. For the more known novenas, ones I love, I just go online and Google and I can find all of them and use that site.