Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 18, 2024 | Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time “The meekness and humility of Jesus become attractive to those who are called to enter his school: 'Learn from me'. Jesus is ‘the faithful’ witness of the love with which God nourishes man.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: http...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 17, 2024 | Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time “I am a very little soul who can only offer very little things to God.” (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/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/praying-the-lauds-your-dai...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 16, 2024 | Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a title given to Mary as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The Carmelites devote their lives to a relationship with Jesus, prayer, contemplation, and virtues, attributes they associate closely with the Blessed Virgin. (https://mycatholic.life) Join the universal Church in praying the Office o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 15, 2024 | Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “The Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, shared until his martyrdom her Son Jesus' fight with the Devil. Let us invoke her motherly intercession so that she may help us always to be witnesses of Christ's peace and never to sink so low as to make compromises with evil.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 14, 2024 | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER O God, who show the light of your truth to those who go astray, so that they may return to the right path, give all who for the faith they profess are accounted Christians the grace to reject whatever is contrary to the name of Christ and to strive after all that does it honor. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 13, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The term ‘soul’ ... refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him, that by which he is most especially in God's image: ‘soul’ signifies the spiritual principle in man.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 363) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 12, 2024 |14th Week in Ordinary Time “We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of God, to persevere ‘to the end’ ...” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 1821) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 11, 2024 |Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot “The visible miracles only come to the eyes of those who see them to draw them to faith in the invisible realities, still more admirable” (Saint Gregory the Great) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 10, 2024 | 14th Week in Ordinary Time “We also are sent as messengers and witnesses of peace. The world has much need of us as messengers of peace!” (Francis) 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-t...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 09, 2024 | 14th Week in Ordinary Time “In the basis of this compassionate love Jesus healed the sick who were presented to him, and with just a few loaves of bread and fish he satisfied the enormous crowd.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5c...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 08, 2024 | 14th Week in Ordinary Time “Even if we are lying on the bed of our sins and our body, if Jesus touches us, we will be healed instantly.” (Saint Jerome) 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/prayi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 07, 2024 | 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER: O God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness. 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. J...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 06, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary “To new wine, new wineskins. This is why the Church asks us, all of us, for a few changes. She asks us to leave aside fleeting structures; they aren’t necessary! And get new wineskins, those of the Gospel.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscr...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 05, 2024 | 13th Week in Ordinary Time “Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. Mercy: the word reveals the very mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. Mercy: the ultimate and supreme act by which God comes to meet us.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.c...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 04, 2024 | 13th Week in Ordinary Time “The paralytic could not have met Him if there had not been others who carried him on the stretcher. It is always nice to be able to count on people who bring us closer to Jesus through the example of their good works. Personal holiness helps others to be holy.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of La...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 03, 2024 | Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle "The Apostle Thomas' case is important to us for at least three reasons: first, because it comforts us in our insecurity; second, because it shows us that every doubt can lead to an outcome brighter than any uncertainty; and, lastly, because the words that Jesus addressed to him remind us of the true meaning of mature faith and...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 02, 2024 | 13th Week in Ordinary Time “Jesus does not want us to be passive people; He wants us to be active, responsible instruments, but at the same time, full of hope. This is the key to face the storms of life.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/sho...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 01, 2024 | 13th Week in Ordinary Time “From gospel times to our own day, Christ's founding will has continued to be at work, the will expressed in that very beautiful and holy invitation addressed to so many souls: ‘Follow me!’" (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 30, 2024 | Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER O God, who through the grace of adoption chose us to be children of light, grant, we pray, that we may not be wrapped in the darkness of error but always be seen to stand in the bright light of truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 29, 2024 |Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles “(…) and in the synagogues immediately [Paul] proclaimed Jesus, saying, 'He is the Son of God.' (Acts 9:20) From the beginning this acknowledgment of Christ's divine sonship will be the center of the apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as the Church's foundation.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 442)...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 28, 2024 |Memorial of St. Irenaeus, Bishop, Doctor of the Church and Martyr “Jesus, takes from us our diseased humanity and we take from Him his sound and healing humanity. This happens each time we receive a Sacrament with faith, especially the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which heals us from the leprosy of sin.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying t...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 27, 2024 |Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church "He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 26, 2024 |Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time “We need to be pure in heart to see Jesus in the person of the spiritually poorest. Therefore, the more disfigured the image of God is in that person, the greater will be our faith and devotion in seeking Jesus’ face.” (Saint Teresa of Calcuta) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 25, 2024 |Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time “The liturgy is ‘God's work’. We must dispose ourselves through a prayerful attitude, with discipline, peace (no rush!) and reverence: we are in the sight of 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/5Drix5cHFQ...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 24, 2024 |Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist "‘I am the voice of one crying out in the desert.’ John was the voice, but the Lord is the Word that existed since the beginning of all things. John was a passing voice; Christ is the Eternal Word, from the beginning.” (Saint Augustine) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you a...