Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 02, 2023 | 21st Week in Ordinary Time The comes to judge the peoples with fairness. God entrusts each one of us with the resources according to our ability. God is a creative God. He makes unique individuals. Understand and accept how God made you. Don't compare your self with others. Your very life is a gift from God. God believes in you and has confidence that...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 01, 2023 | 21st Week in Ordinary Time "Watch at all times, praying that you may be able to stand before the Son of man." Luke 21:36 Jesus Christ wants us to join Him in the everlasting wedding feast in Heaven. Let us keep the fire of holiness burning bright in our lives. It would be foolish to let this fire burn out for lack of prayer. When the fire of God's lov...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 31, 2023 | 21st Week in Ordinary Time An interior habit of prayer means we are always praying. It means that no matter what we do each and every day, our minds and hearts are always turned toward God. It’s like breathing. We always do it and do it without even thinking about it. Know that the moments you dedicate exclusively to prayer each day are essential to your...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 30, 2023 | 21st Week in Ordinary Time Have you ever met someone who speaks with authority? Jesus Christ, help us not to become hypocrites. Help us to continue realizing that our words should be accompanied by actions that embrace the commandment of loving the Lord our God with all our hearts, soul, and mind and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Join the universal...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 29, 2023 | Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the Baptist.”…Mark 6:24 God appointed St. John The Baptist to be the herald of the birth and death of Christ. John the Baptist died a martyr for justice and truth, so we may also courageously bear witness to the word...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 28, 2023 | Sunday 21st Week in Ordinary Time “Incomprehensible and immutable is the love of God. For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all” (St. Augustine of Hippo). Joi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 27, 2023 | Sunday 21st Week in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer: O God, who cause the minds of the faithful to unite in a single purpose, grant your people to love what you command and to desire what you promise, that, amid the uncertainties of this world, our hearts may be fixed on that place where true gladness is found. Through our Lord... Join the universal Church...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 26, 2023 | Saturday 20th Week in Ordinary Time How genuine you are? Let God strip away every false image of yourself so that the true you can shine forth. Humble yourself in this way and God will take you and exalt you in His way so that your heart can be seen and loved by those around you. (https://catholicreadings.org) Join the universal Church in praying the Off...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 25, 2023 | Friday 20th Week in Ordinary Time “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 24, 2023 | Thursday 20th Week in Ordinary Time Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”  John 1:45–46 What is it in your life that seems confusing to...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 23, 2023 | Wednesday 20th Week in Ordinary Time "Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart…Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to Heaven." ~Saint Rose of Lima Penance is good, but it takes great holiness to discover this mysterious and deep truth. The “good life” is not one that is filled with worldly s...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 22, 2023 | Tuesday 20th Week in Ordinary Time And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be to me, according to your word.” Luke 1:38 “More than all the angels and all the saints has God ineffable freely endowed Mary with the fullness of the heavenly gifts that abound in the divine treasury and she, preserving herself ever immaculately clean, fro...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 21, 2023 | Monday, 20th Week in Ordinary Time What are the idols in your life? Worship of idols is an expression of the weakness of every human heart that longs for power, might, wealth, sex, and freedom, from moral obligation. Woshipping these idols only temporarily fulfills these yearnings and desires, just as they do in our modern world. Worshipping the one true...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 20, 2023 | Sunday, 20th Week in Ordinary Time COLLECT Prayer O God, who have prepared for those who love you good things which no eye can see, fill our hearts, we pray, with the warmth of your love, so that, loving you in all things and above all things, we may attain your promises, which surpass every human desire. Through our Lord... Join the universal Church in...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 19, 2023 | Saturday, 19th Week in Ordinary Time "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for such belongs the kingdom of heaven." Mark 10:14 The greatest thing we can do for children is to give them tender love. We must share our faith with our children, pray with them, as well as for them. We must bless them with the sign of the cross on their...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 18, 2023 | Friday, 19th Week in Ordinary Time God gave us the freedom to marry or not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Marriage is sacred. What God has joined together, no one must separate. May we keep an open heart and mind to God’s grace. He alone can satisfy our desire for companionship. He alone can give us the wisdom to understand what is best...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 17, 2023 | Thursday, 19th Week in Ordinary Time “How many times should we forgive those who offended us?" Often we do forgive, but in some situations forgiveness becomes a tough challenge. God is so merciful to us, we ought to appreciate his mercy by forgiving our brothers and sisters. Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. List...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 16, 2023 | Memorial of St. Rock (Roque), Healer He was the son of the governor of Montpellier in France. At the age of 20 he went on a pilgrimage to Rome. When a plague broke out in Italy he took care of the infected and cured many. He himself caught the disease, but not wishing to be a burden to others, he went to the woods to die. There a dog brought him food and...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 15, 2023 | Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary “God's temple was opened. And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (Revelation 11:19; 12:1) Collect: "Almighty ever-living God, who assumed the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of your Son, body and sou...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 14, 2023 | Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you, and for all who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of the Church and those recommended to you.” Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe was also known as Raymund Kolbe. He was a Catholic priest and a Conv...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 13, 2023 | 19th SUNDAY in Ordinary Time Collect: Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised. Through our Lord. Join the universal Church in praying the Offi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 12, 2023 | Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him." - invitatory antiphon LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 12, 2023 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him." - invitatory antiphon Join the universal Church in praying the Office of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 11, 2023 | Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, Virgin "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." - Matthew 16:24 St. Clare was born at Assisi and came under the influence of Saint Francis. She left home at the age of 18 and, under Francis’s guidance, began a community that grew to become the order of the Poor Clares (sh...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 10, 2023 | Memorial of St. Laurence, Deacon, Martyr "If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him." - John 12:26 St. Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the Church of Rome and was executed on 10th August 258, four days after Sixtus II and his companions. By now, few of the facts of his life are known for certain: he was probably a Spaniard from Toledo.  A b...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 09, 2023 | Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin, Martyr “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” - Matthew 15:28 St. Teresa Benedicta was born into a practicing Jewish family. She had a distinguished career as a philosopher and received a doctorate at the University of Freiburg, but her academic career was impeded because...