Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 06, 2024 |22nd Week in Ordinary Time “Sacraments are "powers that comes forth" from the Body of Christ, which is ever-living and life-giving. They are actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. They are "the masterworks of God" in the new and everlasting covenant” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nº 1.116) Join the universa...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 05, 2024 |22nd Week in Ordinary Time “The whole Church is apostolic, in that she is "sent out" into the whole world. All members of the Church share in this mission, though in various ways. "The Christian vocation is, of its nature, a vocation to the apostolate as well.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 863) Join the universal Church in pray...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 04, 2024 |22nd Week in Ordinary Time “In sickness we all need human warmth: to comfort a sick person what counts more than words is serene and sincere closeness.” (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 - September 03, 2024 |Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church “The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God illuminates by his Son Jesus Christ who died and rose to vanquish evil. Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shal...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 02, 2024 |22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time “The good news is the precious pearl of which we read in the Gospel. It is not a thing but a mission. This is evident to anyone who has experienced the ‘delightful and comforting joy of evangelizing’” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 01, 2024 |22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER God of might, giver of every good gift, put into our hearts the love of your name, so that, by deepening our sense of reverence, you may nurture in us what is good and, by your watchful care, keep safe what you have nurtured. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 31, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The Lord does not give everyone the same things and in the same way: he knows us personally and entrusts to us what is right for us; but He places the same immense trust in all of us. Let's not let him down!” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share a...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 30, 2024 | Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time “Christ is the center of all Christian life. The bond with him takes precedence over all other bonds, familial or social. From the very beginning of the Church there have been men and women who have renounced the great good of marriage to follow the Lamb wherever he goes… to meet the Bridegroom who is coming…” (Catechis...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 29, 2024 | Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist “Saint John the Baptist was faithful to the Lord to the end. He drew multitudes of sinners to God. And all this he did, not thanks to his great qualities, or to his enormous apostolates. What attracted him the most was his example of fidelity and his total surrender to God, to the point of shedding his bl...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 28 2024 | Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas) 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 - August 27, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Monica “Truth as uprightness in human action and speech is called truthfulness, sincerity, or candor. Truth or truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and in guarding against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2468) Join the universal...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 26, 2024 | 21st Week in Ordinary Time “God has revealed his Holy Name to us as a gift: we must keep it in memory, in a silence of loving adoration. However, no word has been abused as much as the word ‘God’” (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/5Dri...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 25, 2024 | 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 Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 24, 2024 | Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle "How should we go to the Lord? Like this, with our truth as sinners. With confidence, also with joy, without putting on make-up. We should never put on make-up before God! We must go with the truth” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscri...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 23, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin “... The worship of the one God sets man free from turning in on himself, from the slavery of sin and the idolatry of the world.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2097) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Dr...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 22, 2024 | Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary “A Christian is one who is invited to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party! (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share an...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 21, 2024 | Memorial of Pope Pius X, Pope “The Lord called them all when they were ready to obey, which he did with the good thief, whom the Lord called when he saw that he would obey. The Savior did not exclude anyone» (Saint John Chrysostom) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.s...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 20, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church “The Christian vocation is first and foremost a call to love, a love which attracts us and draws us out of ourselves, towards its liberation through self-giving” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://ope...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 19, 2024 | 20th Week in Ordinary Time “Jesus shows that the commandments must not be understood as a minimum limit not to be gone beyond, but rather as a path involving a moral and spiritual journey towards perfection, at the heart of which is love.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and s...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 18, 2024 | 20th Week in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer O God, you 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 Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and rei...

Morning Prayer -SATURDAY, 17 AUGUST 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "The great saints worked for the glory of God, but I'm only a little soul; I work simply for His pleasure” (Saint Therese of Lisieux) 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://podcast...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 16, 2024 | 19th Week in Ordinary Time “In the biblical narrative, the idea that man is somehow incomplete is certainly present, driven by nature to seek in another the part that can make him whole, the idea that only in communion with the opposite sex can he become “complete”” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 15, 2024 | Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary “On this Solemnity of the Assumption let us look to Mary: She opens us to hope, to a future full of joy and teaches us the way to achieve it: welcoming in faith: by welcoming her Son with faith; by never losing the friendship with him but letting ourselves be illuminated and guided by his word” (Bene...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 14, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr “‘Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us,’ (Rom 8:34) is present in many ways to his Church: in his word, in his Church's prayer, ‘where two or three are gathered in my name,’ (Mt 18:20) in the poor, the sick, and th...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 13, 2024 |19th Sunday in Ordinary Time “ I am a very little soul who can offer only very little things to God.” (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux) 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...