Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 29, 2024 | 8th Week in Ordinary Time «Think of the Son of Man who has not come to be served but to serve and to give his life to redeem many» 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-dail...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 28, 2024 | 8th Week in Ordinary Time “There is no doubt that the specific forms of following Christ are graduated by Him according to the conditions, the possibilities, the missions, the charisms of individuals and groups.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.sp...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 27, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop “Earthly riches occupy and preoccupy the mind and the heart. Jesus does not say they are bad, but that they distance one from God if they are not spent to come to the help of those who are poor.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subs...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 26, 2024 | Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity COLLECT PRAYER God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Through our Lor...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 25, 2024 | 7th Week in Ordinary Time “Remain simple and innocent, and you will be like little children who do not know the evil that destroys man's life.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nº 2517) 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://...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 24, 2024 | 7th Week in Ordinary Time “One of the greatest services that we Christians can render our fellow human beings is to offer them our serene and unhesitating witness as a family founded on the marriage of a man and a woman, safeguarding and promoting the family, since it is of supreme importance for the present and future of humanity.” (Benedict XVI) Join the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 23, 2024 | 7th Week in Ordinary Time “Faith opens a “window” to the presence and working of the Spirit. It shows us that, like happiness, holiness is always tied to little gestures. These little gestures get lost amid all the other things we do, yet they do make each day different.” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 22, 2024 | 7th Week in Ordinary Time “Doing good is a duty, it is an identity card that our Father gave to all, because he made us in his image and likeness. And He always does good.” (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/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 21, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Christopher Magallanes, Martyr “It is not easy for man, wounded by sin, to maintain moral balance. Christ's gift of salvation offers us the grace necessary to persevere in the pursuit of the virtues. Everyone should always ask for this grace of light and strength, frequent the sacraments, cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and follow his call...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 20, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church “What a loving Mother we have! Let's become like Her and imitate Her love! She had compassion for us to the point of not considering material loss and physical suffering at all.” (Saint Bonaventure) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscrib...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 19, 2024 | Solemnity of Pentecost COLLECT PRAYER: O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation, pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth and, with the divine grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill now, once more, the hearts of believers. Through our...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 18, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The disciple of Christ must not only keep the faith and live on it, but also profess it, confidently bear witness to it, and spread it: ‘All however must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross, amidst the persecutions which the Church never lacks’ (Second Vatican Council)” (Catechism of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 17, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “Love is not a matter of miracles but simply of virtue: ‘Love is the fulfilling of the Law’ (Rom 13:10). Love each other and thus you will be like the apostles, you will be in first place” (Saint John Chrysostom) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 16, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The martyr’s fidelity event to the death and the proclamation of the Gospel to all people are rooted in God’s love and in the witness we must bear in our life to this Love” (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 - May 15, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The whole community of the faithful, once begotten in the baptismal font, was crucified with Christ in the passion, raised up with him in the resurrection, so too it is born with him in this Nativity” (Saint Leo the Great) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: ht...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 14, 2024 | Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle “The Christian vocation is this: to remain in the love of God. The love relationship between Him and the Father is the love relationship between Him and us.” (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/5Drix5cHFQEFX...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 13, 2024 |7th Week of Eastertide “(...) The virtue of fortitude enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions. It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause. (...) ‘In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world’ (Jn 16:33)” (Catechism of the Catholic Church...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 12, 2024 |7th Week of Eastertide COLLECT PRAYER Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before us in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the H...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 11, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “After the great discovery of Jesus Christ entering into the terrain of faith, we also often find that life is dark, hard, difficult — a sowing in tears — but we are certain that in the end, the light of Christ truly gives us the great harvest” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 10, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “Difficulties can remove human joy from anything. But the joy that the Lord gives us, that makes us rejoice, raises us in the hope of finding it, even in the darkest moments” (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 - May 09, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “We cannot discover life by being sad, bereft of hope. Let us not stay imprisoned within ourselves, but let us break open our sealed tombs to the Lord so that he may enter and grant us life. Christ wants to come and take us by the hand to bring us out of our anguish.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of La...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 08, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs them and guides them into all truth (cf. Jn 16:13)” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 91) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 07, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “The Holy Spirit makes us sons and daughters of God. He involves us in the same responsibility that God has for his world, for the whole of humanity. He teaches us to look at the world, others and ourselves with God's eyes” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subs...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 06, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “Jesus Christ, having entered the sanctuary of heaven once and for all, intercedes constantly for us as the mediator who assures us of the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 667) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: http...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 05, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide COLLECT PRAYER Grant, almighty God, that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy, which we keep in honor of the risen Lord, and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold to in what we do. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever...