Catholics, how often to you pray to the Father and Jesus?

Question

From many of the questions asked on this forum by non-Catholics, you would get the impression that catholics never pray to Jesus or the Father.

Question for fellow Catholics - What percentage of your prayer time is directed to God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and what percentage of your prayer time is directed to Mary and the Saints in Heaven?

Answer 1

1. Rosary:
1 Apostles Creed = 2 Min's
53 Hail Mary's = (Includes Jesus in Hail Mary + Meditation on Scriptures: Joyful, Sorroful, Glorious, & Lummonus) 20 Min's
6 Our Father's = 10 Min's
5 Glory be's = 5 Min's
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Total 37 Min's (M, W, Th, S, Su) 60% Hail Mary's 40% Trinity.

2. Morning Prayer (most all to Trinity) 2 Min's
3. Before Meals (trinity) 2 Min's
4. After Meals (trinity) 2 Min's
5. Spiritual Adoption of kid in danger of abortion ( To Holy Family ) 2 Min's.
6. St. Joseph ( 3 Min's )
7. Random "How wonderful you are God for: sunsets, clouds, my sister & family, people in my life, grass, toothpaste, functioning body, music, laughter, yoga, janitors, lettuce pickers ... etc) 40 Min's (guessing)
8. Random "Help me ... arrrrrrrggggg ... I'm annoyed ... help me see the beauty ... Eeckeee) 20 Min's (guessing)
9. Act of Contrition (My beddy Time prayer) 4 min's
10. Adoration Chapel reading Psalms 1 hour a week.
11. Occational "Divine Mercy" (1 every two weeks)

Wow ... I guess I pray more than I had thought. Thanks 4 asking. I guess overall It's about 80 % Trinity, 20% Intercession to Holy Family, Mary, & Saints. Which if you look at the Rosary meditation on the Biblical Scriptures ... it's more about Jesus than Mary ... Mary's the guide in the Rosary, not the focus ... so that bumps it up to 95% Trinity & 5% Intercession requests to Holy Family, Mary, & Saints.

Answer 2

All of my prayers are to God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. About a third of the time I am also asking the saints to pray for me. It still adds up to 100% to God.

Answer 3

Well all of our prayers go to God, no matter who we pray them to. We ask for the saints and our Blessed Mother's intersession. I pray directly to God (trinity) 40% of the time, and to the saints, and especially Mary our mother 60 % of the time. But it doesnt matter how much we pray to a saint or Mary, all the prayers we say go to God. There is an Catholic saying which is " To Jesus, through Mary"

In Christ,
Glen

Answer 4

As a Catholic/Orthodox I pray serveral times a day. I often being my day with early prayer and then partaking of the Body and Blood of Jesus as he commaneded. Then I engage in daily activites. During the day I pray. At night we have family devotions where we pray from 30 minutes to 45 minutes.

Always Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit is central to our prayers. The holy mother Mary is frequently asked to inteceded for us. Remember, she is the mother of God (Jesus) and full of grace and blessed among all women. Jesus has a special place in his heart for his mother. She has special access to Jesus. We also have special access to God throug the blood of Christ.

Answer 5

I pray the rosary daily and that is directed to both the Trinity and to Mary.

Throughout the day I call upon God and the saints - just kind of depends on the day. And when I call upon a saint, I am asking for their intercession - so in a way, I am calling on God through them.

Answer 6

I always pray to God, either in the Trinity (collectively) or as each Person (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) as my primary and only source. At times, during these prayers, I feel prompted to ask for the assistance or guidence of a saint. I feel that is the Holy Spirit answering me and saying, "I heard your request and I'm assigning it to St. Joseph. He was a laborer supporting a family in tough times too."

It's like God is leading me to the answer for my prayer by pointing me in the direction of others who followed His will. By looking at them I stop my "pity-party" and thank God for my many blessings, knowing He never leaves me.

Answer 7

All of my prayer time is direct to God. A small portion of that time, maybe 2% is also direct to Mary and/or a saint.

Answer 8

I pray to Jesus and the Father every day. Many times a day. I also try to pray the rosary daily...in the rosary we pray to God the Father, meditate on the mysteries, and ask our Blessed Mother to pray for us.

I end each day by thanking our Lord for his blessings and most especially his mercy.

Answer 9

In the Liturgy ,I (and we) usually pray to the Father through the Son in the Spirit.

Privately, I usually talk to Jesus( 85% or so),since He alone is not only True God but also True Man and can relate to me and mine with human feelings and experience and well as with infinite and perfect divine Love in His divine nature.

However,often I pray to the whole Trinity, the Absolutely One God and Eternal Infinite Community of Love.

Privately, I pray to the Holy Spirit more than to the Father.

I join all my prayers to the praises, prayers and intercessions to those of the whole Body of Christ,especially those of the Saints in Heaven and those deceased who are experiencing purification by grace.

I pray the Rosary every day ,pray one -line invocations( like"Pray with me to our Savior"),converse with her and other saints(especially my patrons, a saint of the day and saints that went through what i'm going through) and sing Marian Hymns and saint hymns,so I ask Mary's and saints' prayers(maybe 5%-8%or so).


I usually end my prayers with"through Jesus Christ our Lord" (except those to Jesus which i often end with " ... I pray this of the Father in Your Name and in the Power of the Spirit". )

I read saint's lives and saint-of-the day bios and talk to them about that. I ask my deceased parents', sister's,family 'sand friends'(especially deceased nuns who taught me) to pray with and for me to the Lord.

So, about 95-92% I pray directly and exclusively to God and the rest is asking others to pray with me for us to God, the final port of all prayer.

Answer 10

About 100% to God( Holy Trinity) and asked Mary to intercede for me!!!