I pray to God every day

I come from a Catholic background (and you can really feel it, even in the atheist members because it's less that people get disowned in this family and more like they get excomunicated) but have frequently suspected as a pagan universalist myself that what I consider God to be is not the same as what others construe.

IrishInManchesterUK said:

given the state of our world, which I believe can only be helped by the Rosary,

It's odd that you should mention the Rosary as I have often considered it the original fidget "toy", in a faith sense, for the way it brings people comfort. I dunno just an observation with how it overlaps with the autistoc experience tbh.

I have deep respect for my Muslim friends as a traditional Catholic - and it was a Pakistani Muslim friend who encouraged me to return to the regular practice of my Catholic Faith some 15 years ago - I do believe that we Catholics can learn much from our Muslim friends in so many aspects, such as thier commitment to thier prayer life 5 times a day, fasting, etc - I’ve since discovered that there are many similarities between Islam and the traditional Catholic faith (pre-Vatican II) that I currently practice and in fact, I was only just chatting to a Muslim friend about this a few days ago 

This reminds me of the “simple” Irish Catholic faith that we learned as children from our grandparents in Rural Ireland - being an Irish patriot, our history has always been that despite persecution, we Irish have always held on our Catholic faith, so much so that being Irish and being Catholic was intertwined, that our Catholic faith defined our Irish identity down the centuries 

Coming from a traditional Irish Catholic rural background and having come back to my Catholic faith 15 years ago (21 years living in the U.K.) I pray a decade of the Rosary every day for everyone’s intentions and I also do Novenas to various saints - this was especially helpful during Covid lockdowns and I have kept it up ever since, given the state of our world, which I believe can only be helped by the Rosary, which Our Lady of Fatima asked us to do in 1917 - Fr. Frank Peyton and Archbishop Fulton Sheen also advocated the Rosary which I have been during all during the month of May which is Our Lady’s month, as I have a special devotion to Our Lady of Knock Queen of Ireland - the Rosary is the most powerful spiritual weapon that we Catholics have in the epic spiritual battle that our world is currently engaged in 

Thank you.  

Beautifully put.  I love the reminder that gratitude is prayer.  Writing out a gratitude list of any length is writing out an amazingly powerful prayer. 

Yes, and I pray all day.  My ultimate goal is continuous connection with God. 

I recently started praying

I pray every day for my mum

For my friends to keep them safe and happy

And for myself xxx

most days yes. And he always listens, and will answer anything that needs answered, in his own way. 

religion could have made a better difference with this praying stuff.... if they changed praying, to be that praying is doing like... 10 push ups or something.... then their prayer will have a actual life changing result and a positive difference that could set off chain reactions of positivity and change.

Used to. Now I don't.

I got fed up with talking to myself.

My Aunt was like a grandmother to me. She passed in 2017 which really affected me. But before she was gone, she told me mother that her faith (️) really brought her comfort in the last year's of her life.

If I am anything, then I am Buddhist. But, this information from my mother has really brought me comfort, to know that she was in a good place spiritually and mentally at the end, because of her faith.

So from that pov, I can only be pleased to know she had faith in something bigger than what we know. So I hope the same for all of you too

Yes I do 

I also pray to God every day. I do this twice, in the morning when I wake up and in the evening before I fall asleep. In general, I understand that you need to pray much more and more often. But unfortunately, because of their work, Meyan does not manage to do this often. But I often attend church [Removed by Mod] I have prayed there for a very long time. Recently I thought that every prayer is a request from God. And this should not be. After all, God himself decides what fate to give us and what path to give us. So now, when I pray, I don't ask God for anything. I thank him for everything.

Agreed leaf. I'm not sure of the posts tonight but I'm uneasy

I pray to god continually though out  the day and l a lot at night when i cannot get to sleep not that god puts me to sleep he dosnt my faith keeps me sane in a very insane world

I think about God most days, but I don't always pray. I can't always find the words, and I get upset about things. But sometimes I just sit in silence and feel peaceful to be there, and that I'm not alone.

Also I’m not suggesting that you buy the book of course. 

One doesn’t need to buy anything to ask god the creator if he loves you.

I am not however saying I agree with ‘everything’ the man is saying in this particular video (I only watched it through once without great analysis) but what I am trying to say to you is that whatever men say it is ultimately  god who can make known to you if he is there and if he loves you.

I pray to the same eternal god who loves me and who created me. Yes god answers me. I know who I’m praying to. I can pray with speaking or silently. It doesn’t matter if you speak or not. The eternal god of love can hear you. But as we are in a world which has sin in it the world is not perfect it would seem so that is why we can believe in god who has told us there is a heaven. 

There is a YouTube video that may explain some things to you. It is called science confirms the Bible. You may please yourself to watch it. I am not an expert and I do not know about everything discussed in that video but only god is the creator so if one would pray to god sincerely one would know for oneself if there is a creator.