Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 12, 2024 |19th Week in Ordinary Time “A new worship is being introduced, in a Temple not built by human hands. This Temple is his body, the Risen One, who gathers the peoples and unites them in the sacrament of his body and blood.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://op...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 11, 2024 | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer 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 Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and re...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 10, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr “Saint Lawrence loved Christ during his life, he imitated him in his death. The best proof we can give of our love is to imitate his example, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.” (Saint Agustine) Join the universal Church in praying the Office o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 09, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr “What is important for all people, what makes their life significant, is the knowledge they are loved. God is there first and loves me. And that is the trustworthy ground on which my life is standing” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you ar...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 08, 2024 |Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest 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...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 07, 2024 |18th Week in Ordinary Time “It is certain that truth always flees from those minds which are not humble” (Saint Augustine) 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-chri...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 06, 2024 |Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord The Transfiguration reminds us that the joys God sows in our life are not points of arrival, but lights He gives us in our earthly pilgrimage. 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://po...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 05, 2024 | Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major “We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR ht...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 04, 2024 | 18th Week in Ordinary Time Collect Prayer Draw near to your servants, O Lord, and answer their prayers with unceasing kindness, that, for those who glory in you as their Creator and guide, you may restore what you have created and keep safe what you have restored. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 03, 2024 | 17th Week in Ordinary Time “St. John the Baptist reminds us too, Christians of this time, that with love for Christ, for his words and for the Truth, we cannot stoop to compromises. The Truth is Truth; there are no compromises” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: htt...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 02, 2024 | 17th Week in Ordinary Time “For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One he sent, his ‘beloved Son’, in whom the Father is ‘well pleased’ (Cf. Mk 1:11); God tells us to listen to him (...) (Cf Mk 9:7).” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 151) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 01, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 01, 2024 | Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “Wherever we go, even to the smallest parish in the most remote corner of this earth, there is the one Church. And this is a great gift of God! The...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 31, 2024 |Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest “This Kingdom is worth giving everything for. It is the treasure buried in the field: the finder of the treasure buries it again and sells everything in order to buy the field, so to gain possession of the treasure.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 30, 2024 | Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church St. Peter Chrysologus was a fourth-century bishop whose preaching earned him the sobriquet “the golden-worded.” His celebrated homilies explained doctrines like the Trinity eloquently, clearly, and concisely. Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 28, 2024 |Memorial of Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus Martha is remembered as the bustling woman chided by Christ for being “anxious and worried about many things” (Lk 10:41) while her more contemplative sister, Mary, chose “the better part” (Lk 10:42). Lazarus is the brother of Mary and Martha and the one whom Jesus restored to life in the Gospel of John. (https://my...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 28, 2024 |Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER O God, protector of those who hope in you, without whom nothing has firm foundation, nothing is holy, bestow in abundance your mercy upon us and grant that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may use the good things that pass in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure. Through our Lor...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 27, 2024 |Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary "Jesus teaches us to see things with Christian realism and to face each problem with clear principles, but also with prudence and patience. This supposes a transcendent vision of history, in which it is known that everything belongs to God" (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 26, 2024 ||Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to tradition, Mary spent her life at the temple from the time she was a little girl. Her parents, Joachim and Anne, presented their young daughter to the temple for service and study, in thanksgiving for the great gift God had given them through her. The memorial helps us think...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 24, 2024 |Feast of St. James, Apostle “The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came ‘to give his life as a ransom for many’ (Mt 20:28), that is, he ‘loved [his own] to the end’ (Jn 13:1), so that they might be ‘ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers’ (I Pt 1:18)” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 622) Join the universal Churc...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 24, 2024 |Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time “The parables are like mirrors for man: will he be hard soil or good earth for the word? What use has he made of the talents he has received? Jesus and the presence of the kingdom in this world are secretly at the heart of the parables.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 546) Join the universal Church in praying the Offic...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 23, 2024 |Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time “Becoming a disciple of Jesus means accepting the invitation to belong to God's family, to live in conformity with His way of life: ‘For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother’ (Mt 12:49).” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2233) Join the universal Church in praying the Offi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 22, 2024 |Feast of St. Mary Magdalene “How beautiful it is to think that the first appearance of the Risen One —according to the Gospels— happened in such a personal way! That there is someone who knows us, who sees our suffering and disappointment, who is moved by us, and calls us by name.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, whe...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 21, 2024 | Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time COLLECT PRAYER Show favor, O Lord, to your servants and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace, that, made fervent in hope, faith and charity, they may be ever watchful in keeping your commands. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ev...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 20, 2024 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Jesus, true God and true man, ‘stripped’ himself, emptied himself, assumed the likeness of men in all things save sin, so as to behave as a servant totally dedicated to serving others.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://op...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 19, 2024 | Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time “God's [Jesus] words have come down to us, through the Gospels, as a synthesis of the entire Christian message: true religion consists in love of God and neighbor.” (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...