Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 01, 2024 |Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church “ I am a very little soul who can offer only very little things to God.” (Saint Thérèse 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/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://podcasts....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 30, 2024 |Memorial of St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church “Whether extraordinary or simple and humble, charisms are graces of the Holy Spirit which directly or indirectly benefit the Church, ordered as they are to her building up, to the good of men, and to the needs of the world.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nº 799) Join the universal Church in p...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 29, 2024 |Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace abundantly upon us and make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the treasures of heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 28, 2024 |Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time "This faithfulness of his means that he acts not only as God toward men, but also as man toward God, in this way establishing the Covenant irrevocably." (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/5Drix5cHFQE...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 27, 2024 |Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, Priest "The event of the Cross reveals its full meaning only if "this man" who suffered and died on the Cross "truly was the Son of God", to use the words uttered by the centurion as he stood before the Crucified Christ" (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, s...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 26, 2024 |Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs “Every society's judgments and conduct reflect a vision of man and his destiny. Without the light the Gospel sheds on God and man, societies easily become totalitarian.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2257) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and su...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 25, 2024 |Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time “Those who have come into genuine contact with Christ cannot keep him for themselves, they must proclaim him” (Sant Joan Pau II) 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 - September 24, 2024 |Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time “Only the incarnate Word, whose love is fulfilled on the Cross, is perfect obedience.”(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/us/podcast/praying-the-lauds...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 23, 2024 |Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest "A candle can only give light if it lets itself be consumed by the flame. It would remain useless if its wax failed to nourish the fire. Allow Christ to burn in you, even at the cost of sacrifice and renunciation." (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 22, 2024 |Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer O God, who founded all the commands of your sacred Law upon love of you and of our neighbor, grant that, by keeping your we may merit to attain eternal life. 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...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 21, 2024 |Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist "Since God could create everything out of nothing, he can also, through the Holy Spirit, give spiritual life to sinners by creating a pure heart in them... And since God was able to make light shine in darkness by his Word, he can also give the light of faith to those who do not yet know him (cf. 2 Cor 4:6)" (C...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 20, 2024 | Memorial of Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gǒn, Priest, and Paul Chǒng Ha-song, and Companions, Martyrs “From the very beginning of the Church there were men and women who set out to follow Christ with greater liberty, and to imitate him more closely, by practicing the evangelical counsels. They led lives dedicated to God, each in his own way (...)” (Catechism O...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 19, 2024 | Memorial of St. Januarius, Bishop and Martyr St. Januarius was born in Italy and was bishop of Benevento during the Emperor Diocletion persecution. Bishop Januarius went to visit two deacons and two laymen in prison. He was then also imprison along with his deacon and lector. They were thrown to the wild beasts, but when the animals did not attack the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 18, 2024 | Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time “… Faith and the practice of the Gospel provide each person with an experience of life ‘in Christ,’ who enlightens him and makes him able to evaluate the divine and human realities according to the Spirit of God. Thus the Holy Spirit can use the humblest to enlighten the learned and those in the highest positions.”...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 17, 2024 | Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time “What moved Jesus in all of these situations was nothing other than mercy, with which he read the hearts of those he encountered and responded to their deepest need.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 16, 2024 |Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs “Our time needs Christians who grow in faith through their familiarity with Sacred Scripture and the sacraments. People who are, as it were, an open book that tells of the experience of new life in the Spirit” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 15, 2024 |Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer Look upon us, O God, Creator and ruler of all things, and, that we may feel the working of your mercy, grant that we may serve you with all our 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 Chu...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 14, 2024 |Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross "The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it invokes his most holy name. It adores the incarnate Word and his Heart which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins. Christian prayer loves to follow the way of the cross in the Savior's steps. the stations from the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 13, 2024 |Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “Prayer and the sacraments obtain for us that light of truth thanks to which we are able to be at once tender and strong, gentle and firm, silent and communicative at the right time, admonishing and correcting in the right way.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Offi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 12, 2024 |Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Mary God's heart always loves, even though he is misunderstood. 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/us/podcast/praying-the-lauds-your-daily-christian-morning-prayer/i...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 11, 2024 |Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time “The Beatitudes are at the heart of Jesus' preaching. They take up the promises made to the chosen people since Abraham. The Beatitudes fulfill the promises by ordering them no longer merely to the possession of a territory, but to the Kingdom of heaven.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nº 1716) Join the universal...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 10, 2024 |Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time “When Christ instituted the Twelve, ‘he constituted [them] in the form of a college or permanent assembly, at the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from among them. Just as ‘by the Lord's institution, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a single apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 09, 2024 |Memorial of St. Peter Claver, Priest “And the best thing is that in the group of his followers, despite their differences, they all lived side by side, overcoming imaginable difficulties: indeed, what bound them together was Jesus himself, in whom they all found themselves united with one another.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying th...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 08, 2024 |Twenty-Third in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption, look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters, that those who believe in Christ may receive true freedom and an everlasting inheritance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 07, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "Living in accordance with the Lord's Day" means living in the awareness of the liberation brought by Christ and making our lives a constant self-offering to God” (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/...