Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 11, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and satisfying than God’s majesty? The radiance of the divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe.” (Saint Basil the Great) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 10, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved (Is 62:4-5); his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to his most precious gift: ‘God so loved the world th...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 09, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “The baptismal water is consecrated by a prayer of epiclesis (either at this moment or at the Easter Vigil). The Church asks God that through his Son the power of the Holy Spirit may be sent upon the water, so that those who will be baptized in it may be ‘born of water and the Spirit’ (Jn 3:5).” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 1...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 08, 2024 |Second Week of Easter "The angel leaves, the mission remains, and along with it the inner closeness to God matures.” (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-your-dai...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 07, 2024 |Divine Mercy Sunday COLLECT PRAYER: God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have bee...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 06, 2024 |Saturday within the Octave of Easter “If you do not become his witnesses in your daily lives, who will do so in your place? Christians are, in the Church and with the Church, missionaries of Christ sent into the world.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.s...

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 - April 05, 2024 |Friday within the Octave of Easter Let us be happy because the Lord has risen and invites us all to a new life, the life of the children of God that is life in the love of Christ. And let's not be afraid because true love drives out fear. Nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible for God. We only have to trust, love and pray. (evangeli.net) Join the univer...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 04, 2024 |Thursday within the Octave of Easter “In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfils Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant. Indeed Jesus himself explained the meaning of his life and death in the light of God's suffering Servant. After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.”...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 03, 2024 |Wednesday within the Octave of Easter “We believe in God who is Father, who is Son, who is Holy Spirit. We believe in Persons, and when we talk to God we talk to Persons: or I speak with the Father, or I speak with the Son, or I speak with the Holy Spirit.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, s...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 02, 2024 |Tuesday within the Octave of Easter “In Jesus’ Resurrection a new possibility of human existence is attained that affects everyone and that opens up a future, a new kind of future, for mankind.” (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/5Drix5cHF...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 01, 2024 | Monday within the Octave of Easter “Mary Magdalene and the holy women (…) were the first to encounter the Risen One (Mk 16:1; Lk 24:1; Jn 19:31,42). Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ's Resurrection for the apostles themselves (Cf Lk 24:9-10). They were the next to whom Jesus appears: first Peter, then the Twelve. Peter had been called to...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 31, 2024 | Easter Sunday COLLECT PRAYER O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord’s Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and r...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 30, 2024 | Holy Week “For what idea could the human person have of God before, except maybe that of an idol which his own heart had made? Once God was incomprehensible and inaccessible, invisible and entirely unthinkable. But now He wanted us to be able to understand him. How was this done? By lying in a manger, preaching on a mountain, praying through the night, an...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 29, 2024 | Holy Week “The Cross is the most profound bowing down of the Divinity towards man. The Cross is like a touch of eternal love on the most painful wounds of humanity’s earthly existence.” (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/5Drix5cHFQE...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 28, 2024 | Holy Week “Life means getting our feet dirty from the dust-filled roads of life and history. All of us need to be cleansed, to be washed.” (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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pra...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 27, 2024 | Holy Week “What we shall be commemorating in the coming days is the supreme battle between Light and Darkness. We must also put ourselves in this context aware of our own ‘night’, of our sins and our responsibility if we want to benefit spiritually from the Paschal Mystery.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 26, 2024 | Holy Week “It is better for me to die on behalf of Jesus Christ than to reign over all the ends of the earth.... Him I seek, who died for us: him I desire, who rose again for our sake... Permit me to be an imitator of the Passion of my God.” (Saint Ignatius of Antioch) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, sha...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 25, 2024 | Holy Week “Love does not calculate, does not measure, does not worry about expense, does not set up barriers but can give joyfully; it seeks only the good of the other, surmounts meanness, pettiness, resentment and the narrow-mindedness that human beings sometimes harbor in their hearts.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 24, 2024 | Palm Sunday COLLECT PRAYER Almighty and ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 23, 2024 | Fifth Week of Lent “One man has died for all, and now in every church in the mystery of bread and wine he heals those for whom he is offered in sacrifice, giving life to those who believe and holiness to those who consecrate the offering.” (Saint Gaudentius of Brescia) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, sha...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 22, 2024 | Fifth Week of Lent “So many people were in close contact with Jesus and they did not believe… If your heart is always closed, faith doesn’t enter! Instead God the Father draws us to Jesus: it is we who open or close our hearts.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:http...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 21, 2024 | Fifth Week of Lent “The doctors of the law did not understand the joy of the promise; they did not understand the joy of hope. However, our father Abraham was able to rejoice because he had faith. These doctors of the law had lost the faith: they were doctors of the law, but without faith! Moreover: they had lost the law! Because the centre of law is love...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 20, 2024 | Fifth Week of Lent ““Liberation” means man's inner transformation, which is a consequence of the knowledge of truth. The transformation is, therefore, a spiritual process, in which man matures in true righteousness and holiness.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe he...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 19, 2024 | Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary “In the Gospels, Saint Joseph appears as a strong and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak but rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love. We mus...