Developing the Habit of Daily Prayer

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Are you longing to pray more consistently? As we prepare to enter the new year, Dr. Sri explains how to cultivate the habit of daily prayer so we can deepen our relationship with God.
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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts,
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0:12.1	Hi, I'm Edwards 3, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:24.2	You're wanting to grow in your relationship with God. You want to grow in your faith.
0:29.1	You want to rely on God more in your life and experience the power of God more in your life.
0:34.8	And you don't have a consistent prayer life. I think that's what many of us would say.
0:41.1	You know, we know prayer is important. We want to pray, but if we're honest, we don't consistently
0:46.4	have the habit of daily prayer. Maybe we every day say some prayers and we do different devotions
0:52.4	like the rosary, or maybe we just stop by in the chapel for a little bit. But the idea of having 15, 20, 30 minutes of quiet time
1:00.6	for intimate conversation with God, for reflecting on his scriptures and an intimate dialogue
1:07.5	with him, do we have that in our daily lives? The saints tell us how
1:12.0	how important that is to grow in our friendship with God. I feel like most people maybe you want to
1:18.6	pray. You know it's important. You know it's good for your soul. And you try. And you start off
1:25.1	well, but then you get busy and and then you forget, and you find
1:29.5	that you're just not making it the priority you want it to be. Many times you go through a season,
1:34.8	we're like, I'm just so busy, I just don't have time. Or, many Christians describe how
1:41.5	they're just not sure what to do in prayer. Prayer is daunting.
1:45.3	I don't feel like I'm good at it. Maybe that's why I'm not consistently sitting in the silence
1:51.9	with my God, my beloved Jesus. That's scary to sit in silence on our world today where we're
1:58.9	always on our phones, always listening to something, listening to a podcast, listening to a song, looking at a YouTube video, I always have to
2:05.2	have noise around me. Maybe that's why I'm all day long. I'm just constantly glued to my phone
2:10.5	and my devices and my screens and it's just hard to just imagine sitting in a chapel or
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