Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 04, 2024 |5th Week of Eastertide “If we seek to deepen our relationship with the Father, then we should not be surprised to find that we are misunderstood, opposed, or even persecuted for our beliefs” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cH...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 03, 2024 |Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles “Philip teaches us to let ourselves be conquered by Jesus, to be with Him and also to invite others to share this indispensable company; and, seeing, finding God, to find true life.” (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 - May 02, 2024 |Memorial of St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “God can transform into love even the burdensome and oppressive aspects of our lives. It is important that we ‘abide’ in Christ, in the vine.” (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/5D...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 02, 2024 |5th Week of Eastertide "I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing."- John 15:5 “We are the branches. Branches are not self-sufficient, but depend totally on the vine, which is the source of their existence” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 30, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter “Peace is a true gift of the presence of Jesus in the midst of his Church. Lord, guard your Church in tribulation, so she does not lose faith, so she does not lose hope” (Francis) 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 - April 29, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter “Let your door stand open to receive him, unlock your soul to him, offer him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace” (Saint Ambrose) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 28, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter COLLECT PRAYER Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spir...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 27, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “The Lord’s invitation to encounter him is made to each of you, in whatever place or situation you find yourself. It suffices to have an openness to letting him encounter you unfailingly each day.” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotif...

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 - April 26, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “If you love Him, follow Him. Do you ask by what way?: ‘I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life’. Remaining with the Father, the truth and life; putting on flesh, He became the way” (Saint Augustine) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.co...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 25, 2024 |Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist “We are all called to be living writers of the Gospel, bearers of the Good News to every man and woman of today.” (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/pray...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 24, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “We need this light from on high if we are to respond in a way worthy of the vocation we have received. For the Church, to be missionary means to receive God’s light and then to reflect it” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.com/sh...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 23, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Mt 16:16). On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 424) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, whe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 22, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “God calls each one by name. Everyone's name is sacred. The name is the icon of the person. It demands respect as a sign of the dignity of the one who bears it” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2158) 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 - April 21, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter COLLECT PRAYER Be near, O Lord, to those who plead before you, and look kindly on those who place their hope in your mercy, that, cleansed from the stain of their sins, they may persevere in holy living and be made full heirs of your promise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Ho...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 20, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Eucharistic Bread, medicine of immortality, antidote to death.” (Saint Ignatius of Antioch) 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-morni...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 19, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you’ (Jn 6:53).” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 1384) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever yo...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 18, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Let us live the Eucharist with the spirit of faith, of prayer, of forgiveness, of repentance, of communal joy, of concern for the needy, in the certainty that the Lord will fulfil what he has promised us: eternal life.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscri...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 17, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Only the one who is God sees God—Jesus. He truly speaks from his vision of the Father, from unceasing dialogue with the Father, a dialogue that is his 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/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR h...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 16, 2024 | 3rd Week of Easter “It is so that these impious ones wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify their yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring them to their desired end, not by exhaustion but by attainment.” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 16, 2024 |Third Week of Easter The Eucharist is Christ Himself. It’s a gift that has the potential to not only sustain us in every way but also to draw us into the greatest Heavenly delights. 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://podcas...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 15, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Holy Communion is for us the pledge of eternal life so that it guarantees Heaven to us. It is a pledge sent from Heaven to tell us that it will one day be our dwelling place.” (Saint John Vianney) 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 - April 14, 2024 |Third Sunday of Easter Collect Prayer May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spiri...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 13, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the risen Christ who is with us always (Mt 28:20), no matter what tempests may arise. Our time is in the hands of God.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2743) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 12, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “Jesus was not relying on an adequate supply of material goods (…). What human reason did not dare to hope became a reality with Jesus thanks to a young boy’s generous heart.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.com/show/...