[Forest Keeper]

I started praying the Rosary off and on, in 1967.

Since I'm 40, back in 1967 I'd say that my prayer life was still guided by formula. :)

[Blogger]

Mine also :) We're around the same age.

[Mad Dawg]

"I grow old I grow old
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."

My parents had thrown me out of the house. I was sleeping in a bed roll high in the hills of Berkeley, and coming down the hills to make my communion at the Episcopal Church which had a daily celebration.

Now my parents have passed and I have a child older than I was then. And it was never in any of our plans that I would be arguing belligerently for the RCC point of view anywhere.

Moral of story: Make your plans, but hedge your bets, except where Jesus is concerned. There go for broke.

[Mad Dawg]

'Nother comment: Psalm 131.

The rest of it will work itself out. Our mission is clear, and as lovely and easy as a child on its mother's breast.

[annalex]

Since I'm 40, back in 1967 I'd say that my prayer life was ...

But someone prayed for you many a Rosary. If Christendom stopped praying, the universe would stop. This is why monasticism is vital in our lives.