Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 23, 2024 |Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER Grant, O Lord, that we may always revere and love your holy name, for you never deprive of your guidance those you set firm on the foundation of your love. 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...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 22, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The Lord grieves over the rich, because they find their consolation in the abundance of goods. ‘Let the proud seek and love earthly kingdoms, but blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven’ (Saint Augustine). Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorro...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 21, 2024 |Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious “Jesus invites to use things unselfishly without thirsting for possession or dominion, but according to the logic of God, the logic of consideration for others, the logic of love.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 20, 2024 |11th Week in Ordinary Time “‘The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole gospel’ (Tertullian). Since the Lord after handing over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer [the Lord's Prayer] is said first, as the fou...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 19, 2024 |11th Week in Ordinary Time “Any expression of penitence only have value in God's eyes if they are signs of sincerely repentant hearts. The true ‘reward’ is not the admiration of others but rather friendship with God.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spo...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 18, 2024 |11th Week in Ordinary Time “Why does Jesus ask us to love precisely our enemies, that is, a love which exceeds human capacities? Because it takes into account that in the world there is too much violence, too much injustice, and therefore that this situation cannot be overcome except by countering it with more love.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 17, 2024 |11th Week in Ordinary Time “In the Gospel Jesus also speaks to us of holiness, and explains to us the new law, his law. We are required not only to avoid repaying others the evil they have done to us, but also to seek generously to do good to them.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 16, 2024 |11th Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER O God, strength of those who hope in you, graciously hear our pleas, and, since without you mortal frailty can do nothing, grant us always the help of your grace that in following your commands we may please you by our resolve and our deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 15, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Do you want to be loved? Keep your word! Jesus said, "Say yes when you mean yes and say no when you mean no." 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-...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 14, 2024 |Tenth Week in Ordinary Time “The appetites are inflamed by the sensuality of the gaze and our eyes, used to looking lustfully at our neighbor because we are so idle, spark impure desires.” (Saint Clement of Alexandria) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 13, 2024 |Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) is well known as a finder of lost things, but he was also famous in his own time as a great preacher. Because of his tireless and effective work in preaching the truth of the Gospel in a time when people were being led astray by false teachings, he is sometime...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 12, 2024 |10th Week in Ordinary Time “The sweetest commandments become bitter when they are imposed by a tyrannical and cruel heart; and they become most amiable when ordained by love.” (Saint Francis de Sales) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGA...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 11, 2024 | Memorial of St. Barnabas, Apostle “The People of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in history (…). Its mission is to be salt of the earth and light of the world. This people is ‘a most sure seed of unity, hope, and salvation for the whole human race.’” (Catechi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 10, 2024 | Tenth Week in Ordinary Time “For God is seen by those who are enabled to see Him when they have the eyes of their soul opened: for all have eyes; but in some they are overspread, and do not see the light of the sun.” (Saint Theophilus of Antioch) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: h...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 09, 2024 | Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER: O God, from whom all good things come, grant that we, who call on you in our need, may at your prompting discern what is right, and by your guidance do it. 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...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 08, 2024 | Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience” (St. Irenaeus of Lyon) 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-th...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 07, 2024 | Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the heart that was given up for the whole world out of love. It is the merciful face of God. 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...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 06, 2024 | 9th Week in Ordinary Time “If the love of God has planted deep roots in a person, then he is able to love even those who do not deserve it, as God does us.” (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....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 05, 2024 | Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr “The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, ‘Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?’ (Mk 12:24). Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who ‘is not God...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 04, 2024 | 9th Week in Ordinary Time “Authorities should exercise devoutly in peace and meekness the power given them by God.” (Saint Clement of Rome) 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 - June 03, 2024 |Memorial of Sts. Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyr “He called us with love, he protects us. Yet then he gives us freedom, he gives us all this love ‘on lease’. It’s as if he were to say to us: protect and keep my love just as I safeguard you. This is the dialogue between God and us: to safeguard love.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in pra...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 02, 2024 |Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi COLLECT PRAYER: O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 01, 2024 |Memorial of St. Justin, Martyr “If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 587) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, where...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 31, 2024 |Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Only faith can embrace the mysterious ways of God's almighty power. This faith glories in its weaknesses in order to draw to itself Christ's power. The Virgin Mary is the supreme model of this faith, for she believed that ‘nothing will be impossible with God’ (L 1:37), and was able to magnify the Lord: ‘For...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 30, 2024 | 8th Week in Ordinary Time “Faith is a journey of illumination: it starts with the humility of recognizing oneself as needy of salvation and arrives at the personal encounter with Christ, who calls one to follow him on the way of love.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here...