WHEN To Pray For Others?

• Start and end each day with prayer. This custom goes back long before Jesus was born. No matter how long you pray, add a few minutes at the end to intercede for others. By doing it at standard times during the day, you will continue to build the “prayer muscle”. 
• You can also build towards what St. Paul wrote in Ephesian 6:19, “Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.” 
• When you say grace before a meal, finish with a prayer for someone God puts on your heart. 
• When you are enjoying small blessings during the day, like a warm shower, a pretty sunset, or a cozy fire, offer up a heartfelt prayer for those who for whatever reason cannot enjoy that same blessing that day. You will find one of the fruits of doing that often is ever-increasing gratitude for what God has blest you with. 
• If you wake up in the middle of the night, before going back to bed pray for anyone on your heart. This could also be a good time, if you wake up consistently, to pray in particular for someone who may be close to suicide, or a mother planning the next day to go for an abortion. God doesn't sleep so He hears our prayers 24x7. 

Archbishop Fulton Sheen said,  "There is nothing more tragic in all the world than wasted pain. Think of how much suffering there is in hospitals and among the poor and the bereaved. Think also of how much of that suffering goes to waste! How many of those lonesome, suffering, abandoned, crucified souls are saying with Our Lord at the moment of consecration, “This is my body. Take it.” 

Whenever you are aware of suffering in your life, unite it to Christ's. Allow Him to take it and trasnform it for the betterment of others.