Welllllll my bedroom is certainly that.
And often enough my Laz-Y-Boy.
However, alternate spots can be refreshing as well.
Another reason I HAVE to have a lazy boy.
"It's for my relationship with God, honey. I have to have this. It's important!"
You think she'll go for it?
I am told that among the Dominican novices, slang for a nap is "St. Joseph meditation."
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Smvoice: I suppose your bitter mockery is directed at the "Daily Office", aka the "Liturgy of the Hours.(LOTH)" No Catholic lay person is obliged to "pray the hours" and few are obliged to pray all. Of my own free will I made a commitment to pray two of the hours and sometimes add two more.
One piece of mockery which the LOTH deserve came from Archbishop Cranmer who simplified the daily office when he made the Anglican Prayer Book. He said, more or less, that figuring what prayers to say on a particular day often took more time than it did to say them. Guilty as charged, except that there are little 'ephemeral' guides that do all the heavy lifting for one.
I guess the complaint is that it's all prescribed. Where's the spontaneity? I can see that, and if ALL one did was liturgical prayer, there would be a problem. But, even if read alone, the LOTH is about the communion. All over the world Catholics are praying more or less the same psalms and singing more or less the same hymns. Especially when, as I rarely do, I pray in Latin, I am doing what Catholics have done for hundreds of years: pleading, whining, praising, triumphing, complaining and not only with Catholics but with our older brothers who also pray the Psalms.
To dance together, a couple has to agree on the steps and then follow them. The kind of dancing where one improvises all the way is also fun, but it necessarily has less togetherness. Fun dancing will involve sometimes following steps, sometimes improvising. If someone who only knows how to Boogaloo were to mock me because I sometimes waltz with a lovely woman in my arms, that's fine. As the even ancient prophets, the Contours -- and by "ancient", I'm referring to the early sixties, have sung, "I can mash potato(e); I can do the twist ..." AND I can waltz. I like 'em all.
If you pray Matins, Lauds, Vespers, and Compline, you start and end your day with group prayer, even if you are alone. If you pray all the hours, you through almost the entire Psalter every four weeks. Is that bad?
If you pray Matins (now called the "Office of Readings" and released from being restricted to morning use) you get a sizable meditation from Scripture and from a work by the fathers or by a council.
If you look around in a Catholic parish you can tell who reads Matins because often they'll be saying to one another something like, "Wasn't that an amazing passage today?"
So mock on. The LOTH is a gift, prayer which spurs further prays and brings me closer to my friends as together we grow closer to God in His Word, especially in the Psalms.