Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 26, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "You were within me but I was outside myself, and there I sought you! In my weakness, I ran after the beauty of the things you have made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The things you have made kept me from you – the things which would have no being unless they existed in you!" (Saint Augustine) Join the un...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 25, 2024 | 29th Week in Ordinary Time "... Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. the right to the exercise of freedom, especially in moral and religious matters..." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n 1738) Join the universal Church in pr...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 24, 2024 | Saint Antony Mary Claret, Bishop "The “yes” to following Jesus Christ includes the value of allowing oneself to be burned by the fire of His passion." (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://podcasts.apple.com...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 23, 2024 |Memorial of St. John Capistrano, Priest "Across the centuries, it is the drowsiness of the disciples that opens up possibilities for the power of the Evil One. Such drowsiness deadens the soul, so that it remains undisturbed by the power of the Evil One" (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, sh...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 22, 2024 | Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time “(...) Vigilance is ‘custody of the heart’, and Jesus prayed for us to the Father: ‘Keep them in your name’. The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch (...)” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2849) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscr...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 21, 2024 | Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time “The economy of law and grace turns men's hearts away from avarice and envy (...). The God of the promises always warned man against seduction by what from the beginning has seemed ‘good for food... a delight to the eyes... to be desired to make one wise’ (Gen 3:6).” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2541) Join the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 20, 2024 | Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer Almighty ever-living God, grant that we may always conform our will to yours and serve your majesty in sincerity of heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Join the universal Church in praying the Office of L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 19, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary " (...) There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 1864) Jo...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 18, 2024 | Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist "Three principal parables on prayer are transmitted to us by St. Luke: The first, "the importunate friend," (Cf. Lk 11:5-13) invites us to urgent prayer: ... The second, "the importunate widow," (Cf. Lk 18:1-8) is centered on one of the qualities of prayer: it is necessary to pray always without ceasing ... The third parabl...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 17, 2024 | Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr “In all of his life Jesus presents himself as our model. He is ‘the perfect man’, who invites us to become his disciples and follow him. In humbling himself, he has given us an example to imitate, through his prayer he draws us to pray, and by his poverty he calls us to accept freely the privation a...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 16, 2024 | Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time "Do everything for Love. So there will be no small things: everything will be great. Perseverance in small things for Love is heroism". (Saint Josemaria) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR ht...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 15, 2024 | Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church "Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues..." (...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 14, 2024 | Memorial of St. Callistus, Pope and Martyr "Still today, for the “modern Nineveh”, God is looking for messengers of penance. Will we have the courage, the deep faith, the credibility necessary to reach hearts and open the doors to conversion?" (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and su...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 13, 2024 |Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer May your grace, O Lord, we pray, at all times go before us and follow after and make us always determined to carry out good works. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Join the universal Church in praying the Off...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 12, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "Who finds time to hear God’s word and to let themselves be attracted by his love? Faith in God demands a faith-filled surrender into the hands of the Love which sustains the world.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 11, 2024 |Memorial of St. John XXIII, Pope "The Evil One always seeks to spoil God’s work, sowing division in the human heart, between body and soul, between the individual and God, in interpersonal, social and international relations... The Evil One sows discord; God creates peace." (Benedicto XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, whereve...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 10, 2024 |Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time "When we need help, Jesus does not tell us to resign ourselves and close ourselves off, but rather to turn to the Father and ask him with confidence. All our needs, from the most evident, daily ones" (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 09, 2024 |Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time "You say that you don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and once you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' rest assured that you have begun to do so" (Saint Josemaria Escrivá) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: htt...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 08, 2024 |Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time “(…) The home is the first school of Christian life and ‘a school for human enrichment’. Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous - even repeated - forgiveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one's life.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 1657). Join the u...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 07, 2024 |Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary “In the messianic programme of Christ, which is at the same time the programme of the Kingdom of God, suffering is present in the world in order to release love, in order to give birth to works of love towards neighbour.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Li...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 06, 2024 |Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 04, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "It is not riches or glory that the heart of a little child demands; what he asks for is love. I can only do one thing: love you, oh Jesus!” (Saint Therese of Lisieux) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEF...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 04, 2024 |Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi "Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions..." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1431) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 03, 2024 |Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time “Faith comes through hearing, and what is heard is the word of Christ. The preaching of the word of God, then, is necessary for the spiritual life, just as the planting of seed is necessary for bodily life.” (Saint Lawrence of Brindisi) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 02, 2024 |Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels “Man's vocation to eternal life does not suppress, but actually reinforces, his duty to put into action in this world the energies and means received from the Creator to serve justice and peace.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2820) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Lis...