How Do Catholic Priests Pray?

The Catholic Talk Show

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, the guys discuss the prayer life of Catholic Priests and what lay people can learn from them. 00:00 Understanding the Prayer Life of Priests 02:45 The Role of the Mass in Priest's Prayer 05:40 Liturgy of the Hours: A Priest's Daily Practice 08:24 The Power of the Liturgy of the Hours 10:59 Lectio Divina: A Personal Prayer Practice 14:04 The Importance of Structure in Prayer 16:50 The Rosary and Other Prayer Practices 19:39 The Examination of Conscience and Daily Reflection 22:14 The Role of Forgiveness in Prayer 25:10 The Importance of Community in Prayer 27:54 Practical Steps for Lay Catholics 30:59 Conclusion and Call to Action Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.4	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply. Gamblerware.org. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today we're going to be asking the question, how to priests pray? That's right. A lot of Catholics
0:38.0	think that priests have some special prayer life or some mystical powers that regular lay Catholics have.
0:43.3	But the truth is, priests pray just like you and I, but maybe just a little more. So stick around to
0:48.2	find out that priests pray just like you. We get up every morning, put her pants on one leg at a time,
0:52.6	except when we put our pants on, we're priests.
0:58.8	All right, that was quite the intro there, guys.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:03.1	It's a tongue twister.
1:04.6	Priest pants.
1:05.5	Put them on prayerfully.
1:07.3	Say priest's prayer pants five times fast.
1:09.1	Pre-prior pants.
1:10.2	If you do it, actually, you get already into priests automatically.
1:13.2	You can say that.
1:13.6	That's how it happens. Yeah, that's actually one of like the initiation rituals into the opus day that they don't tell you about. No, look, we wanted to do this episode because I think a lot of people think that, you know, prayers have these, I'm sorry, priests have these kind of prayer lives that are unattainable for the regular Catholic and they're so separated from us.
1:32.3	They're on the mountain.
1:33.5	And that's not true.
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