How often do you pray?
As missionary oblates, we pray in the morning and we pray in the evening. That's our community time of prayer. But our evening prayer is for about 45 minutes. We have half an hour of silent prayer as a community before the blessed sacrament, which is the eucharist, the body of Christ which is reserved in the tabernacle like a box. We pray before the eucharist, aware that Christ is with us. And that's about thinking about the day, thinking about oblates in other parts of the world, connecting ourselves to each other, helping to understand what the day has been about through our Lord, through conversation with Him. We end it by praying the evening prayer of the church. It's psalms, reflection and the sense of praise to God for what has been for the day. Then, during the day sometime, I will do the Divine Office which is mainly for priests. Also, before night as we go to bed, I have my examination of conscience. How have I been good news? Where have I seen good news? how have others been good news to me? And once a month, we try and take a day of recollection. We just take a quiet day to tune a day. It's like taking your car to the mechanic to get it fine tuned. We do it about once a month to just get it tuned up.
