1) Daily morning and evening prayer
2) Reciting the Angelus morning, noon, and night and prayers before and after all meals
3) Daily Rosary
4) Daily Meditation on some truth of the Faith (Four Last Things, The Blessed Mother, etc.) or a chapter of Spiritual Reading (Imitation of Christ, Preparation for Death, etc)
5) Reading of at least a half hour on some edifying subject such as the Classics, History, Crisis in the Church, etc.
6) Giving a full days work for a full days pay, performing our daily duty faithfully.
7) Avoiding all profanity in speech and off color or suggestive conversations. Keeping custody of the eyes, heart, and mind.
8) Dressing with dignity, both men and women, according to our state in life.
9) Total Consecration to the Blessed Mother according to the method of St Louis DeMontfort
10) Weekly Communion, attending Mass on all Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, as well as First Friday and Saturdays. If we have daily access to Mass we should make all efforts to go.
11) A yearly or semi-yearly retreat
12) Whenever we find our mind free from our tasks for a moment, let our thoughts return always to Our Lord, His Blessed Mother, the saints, etc. by some small aspiration or mental prayer such as "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner", "O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee", etc

Just to go back for a second to the list above, some people say that that's a bit legalistic or formalistic. but in a sense that is a good thing because it gives one a clear set if things to commit to. Also, some of these prayers may be formulaic. But it is better to utter a formula than to utter nothing and the Church is a better creator of prayers than we. What I mean is that too much private and spntaneous prayer, however sincere, may put us in danger of thinking we can put our own unguided thoughts above the church: better to have our thoughts guided into the tradtional and proper channels of the Church's prayer.

I accept the need to pray before and after meals. I wonder f there are others like me who, moving amongst non-believers and heretics, have to overcome real embarassment in crossing oneself and saying Grace at meals.

I have discussed this with friends and we had a couple of other tyhings that in my humble opinion every traditional catholic (read: "Catholic") should consider:-

(a) before bed and as part of evening prayers, make an examiniation of conscience for the day and if something needs to be corrected WRITE IT DOWN. that helps when preparing for confession and also may help you analyse where your repeated temptations are.

(b) be careful about the state of one's conscience. If you are a frequent receiver of Holy Communion, make sure that you are in a state of grace beforehand and make time before Communion to examine conscience and go to confession if necessary. And needless to say don't do as most NO heretics do, receive Communion without having gone to confession when necessary. Stay in the pew and make a spiritual Communion if need be.

Just some thoughts

Mark

Those people who keep on repeating that the Pope and other lawful superiors have no authority over the Catholic flock.

Of course, they do. Catholics simply await a Pope. But when elected/elevated, Catholics owe him their obedience. And lawful bishops, etc.

But a bishop who teaches against The Church, who is precisely what Pope St. Pius X said a Catholic cannot be in his effort to stem the tide of Modernism, cannot be a Catholic. If a heretic or apostate, he can't either be a bishop or demand any obedience from Catholics. It would be as if Louis Farrakhan suddenly demanded a tithe from the CMRI. The CMRI don't answer to 'Calypso Louie'.

And above all, the dire need to pray to Almighty God and the Blessed Mother for the regaining of the whole Catholic Church its four distinctive marks: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic!

And you believe Roman Protestantism meets even one of those four tests?

In what way?

One? They don't consider themselves one, but part of a separated group of 'brethren', a co-equal 'sister congregation', and so forth. Holy? In what way? Holiness hardly seems esteemed, even at that, in Roman Protestantism. Modernism does not allow for the supernatural, for grace, really for God. Again, read what Pope St. Pius X wrote on this. I suspect you haven't. Catholic? The Church contemns Modernism. There's no 'gray area', here. Apostolic? I give you an example. If a Protestant is 'grandfathered' in as a priest, even as a married vicar, without even conditional orders, how does he follow in the line? And what about the changes made to Holy Orders, I believe in 1968, the first of the Sacraments to be remade in the image Roman Protestantism? Without proper orders, whence Apostolic Succession?