Comments on: Where’s my call to prayer speaker?

By: Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadin

Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadin — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:22:27 +0000

btw, that Ubuntu Muslim Edition has renamed itself the Sabily Project. Their artwork remains gorgeous.

By: epsilon

epsilon — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:47:00 +0000

Hi – I found you indirectly on a long windy path via http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/
which sounds something like what you are looking for – it’s beautiful – I’ve listened to all the 10 minute slots for this coming week and feel inspired to try and share them at school even if it means I get scoffed at or rejected…

Your story is also beautiful – I might try and introduce myself at a later time – in the meantime – Slan agus Beannacht

By: Tausign

Tausign — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:44:00 +0000

Pardon my sloppy links in my above comment. Here's the link for penance as antidote to falling away from prayer. Also,here's the corrected link for Confessions of a Liturgical Pray-er.

I'm not sure that alarm clocks are the answer but some small understanding and program of penance might be the key.

By: Tausign

Tausign — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:40:00 +0000

I've been away of late and am just catching up with your posts. They're always insightful.

Actually it's a good sign when you are aware of your laxity in prayer. It reveals a simmering hunger for the Spirit that is lurking below the surface. Usually it means that the old priorities are tying to sneak back in. It's nothing less than a mild spiritual battle, so stay alert. As long as you are aware of missing prayer, you're OK. If you totally forget or blow it off, you're in trouble. There's only one solution I'm aware of: try taking on a small dose of penance to try to break up the backsliding. If you agree you might hit the label 'penance' on my blog for some ideas.

Here's another post for your encouragement Confessions of a Liturgical Pray-er.

Peace and all good.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:47:00 +0000

It’s really a shame we don’t all live in small villages where we could hear the church bells ringing, isn’t it? After all, that was the Christian equivalent of the Muslim loudspeakers!

By the way, I’ve had this exact same question in my mind, about how to remind myself to pray with some kind of alarm. I’m liking the phone idea with a bell sounding alarm, I have my phone on my all day so it could actually work for me!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:18:00 +0000

I think that the tricky part isn’t in scheduling a recurring reminder, but in finding a suitable form for that reminder to take. When I did this on my Mac, I took a sound recording of a single, clear church bell and looped it a couple of times to create a longer, punctuated pealing effect. When I first set things up, I went all geeky and scheduled a cron job to play my personal call to prayer at the appropriate hours; these days, I’d probably just schedule an event (or multiple events) in iCal.

The other trick is to play it through speakers loud enough to be heard throughout your house.

By: Jen S

Jen S — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:13:00 +0000

This is a great idea. I may have to set alarms on my iphone. thanks for the thought!

By: Multiple Mom T

Multiple Mom T — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Why not just use one of Muslim thingys?

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:19:00 +0000

Since I’m not a Poor Clare yet, I don’t have bells going off at regular intervals to call me into the chapel. I currently work for the Red Cross to my schedule is always changing and very hectic. Instead of praying at specific times, my prayers coincide with other events in my day. For instance, I pray evening prayer before dinner – sometimes that’s at 5:30, sometimes it’s at 10:00!

By: planty

planty — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:39:00 +0000

If you’ve got a smartphone (for windows mobile) then there is an application called Chronos that lets you have multiple customisable alarms.

These can even fire up applications (could even be some prayer notes stored on the phone or a website)