Hi, I'm Edward Sree and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.

As Christians, we've often heard about how important prayer is.

Pope Francis himself says, the soul needs prayer like the body needs oxygen.

I love that line.

It's so true, right?

We need spiritual breathing in our daily lives.

We need to breathe in the life of God, the Word of God, into our souls so that we have

more to give God and live in union with Him.

But we also have more to give to our spouse, our children, our friends, and we really need

prayer, right?

And we get this.

We know prayer is important.

We want to spend time in prayer.

But do you ever find it hard to fit it in?

Do you find it hard in your busy life to fit daily prayer in?

Do you find it hard to be consistent in prayer?

You know, in the pressures of modern day living, it can be really tricky to try to get prayer

time in with God every day.

You know, your kid needs you right now and there's pressures at work or there's demands

at home and there's seasons of life we might go through where we have a new baby or we

have a new job or we have a new boss or we have a new project in the office or we move

to a new city and we're just overwhelmed with life.

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