Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 16, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “At the root of the mystery of salvation, in fact, lies the will of a merciful God who does not want to surrender to the misunderstandings, failures and misery of man.” (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/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmG...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 15, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “Freedom is not the ability simply to do what I want. This makes us self-centred and aloof, and it prevents us from being open and sincere friends. Instead, freedom is the gift of being able to choose the good: this is true freedom.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share a...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 14, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “Let your light shine in our society, in political and economic life, in culture and research. Even if it is only a flicker amid so many deceptive lights, it nonetheless draws its power and splendour from the great Morning Star, the Risen Christ.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 13, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “Christ is a divine judge with a human heart, a judge who wants to give life. Only unrepentant attachment to evil can prevent him from offering this gift, for which he did not hesitate to face death.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://o...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 12, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “Let us be displeased with ourselves when we sin, because sins displease God. And because we are not in fact without sin, let us at least be like God in this respect, that what displeases him displeases us.” (Saint Augustine) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 11, 2024 | 4th Week of Lent “Do you think that God will not listen to us if we pray to him with insistence? He is always listening and he knows everything about us lovingly. We battle with him beside us, and our weapon is prayer which makes us feel his presence beside us.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Lis...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 10, 2024 | 4th Sunday of Lent COLLECT PRAYER O God, who through your Word reconcile the human race to yourself in a wonderful way, grant, we pray, that with prompt devotion and eager faith the Christian people may hasten toward the solemn celebrations to come. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 09, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. By receiving more frequen...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 08, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “Faith is giving space to this love of God; it is making room for the power, for the power of God, for the power of One who loves me, who is in love with me and who wants this joy with me. This is faith. This is believing: it is making room for the Lord to come and change me.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 07, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “The finger. ‘It is by the finger of God that [Jesus] cast out demons’ (Lk 11:20). If God's law was written on tablets of stone ‘by the finger of God,’ then the "letter from Christ" entrusted to the care of the apostles, is written ‘with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts’ (...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 06, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “Every precept reveals its full meaning as a requirement of love, and they all come together in the greatest commandment: to love God with all of your heart and to love your neighbour as yourself.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spoti...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 05, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “There is no offense, however serious, that the Church cannot forgive. There is no one, however wicked and guilty, who may not confidently hope for forgiveness, provided his repentance is honest. Christ who died for all men desires that in his Church the gates of forgiveness should always be open to anyone who turns away from sin (Cf. Mt...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 04, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent “A baby, a manger. Simple things, the humility of God, this is the divine way, never a spectacle. It will do us good in this Lenten Season to think about how the Lord has helped us in our life, about how the Lord has made us go forward, and we will find that He has always done so with simple things.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Chur...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 03, 2024 | 3rd Week of Lent COLLECT PRAYER O God, author of every mercy and of all goodness, who in fasting, prayer and almsgiving have shown us a remedy for sin, look graciously on this confession of our lowliness, that we, who are bowed down by our conscience, may always be lifted up by your mercy. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 02, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “Our God is a God who waits. The Lord is faithful to his promise because he cannot deny himself. He is faithful. And, in this way, he waited for all of us, throughout all of history. He is the God who waits for us always.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscrib...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 01, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “God needs not toil, but obedience.” (Saint John Chrysostom) 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-morning-prayer/id1651413437 Brought to y...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 29, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “How can we not recognize Lazarus, the hungry beggar in the parable, in the multitude of human beings without bread, a roof or a place to stay? How can we fail to hear Jesus: ‘As you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me’ (Mt 25:45)?.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2463) Join the universal Church in pray...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 28, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “The Lord does not disappoint those who take this risk.” (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/praying-the-lauds-your-daily-christian-morning-prayer/id165141343...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 27, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts.” (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:...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 26, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent “To me, God has given his Infinite Mercy, and it is in this ineffable mirror that I contemplate his other divine attributes. Therein all appear to me radiant with Love. His Justice, even more perhaps than the rest, seems to me to be clothed with Love.” (Saint Therese of Lisieux) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 25, 2024 | 2nd Week of Lent COLLECT PRAYER O God, who have commanded us to listen to your beloved Son, be pleased, we pray, to nourish us inwardly by your word, that, with spiritual sight made pure, we may rejoice to behold your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. A...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 24, 2024 | 1st Week of Lent “O my Lord, how good You are.” (Saint Teresa of Jesus) 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-morning-prayer/id1651413437 Brought to you...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 23, 2024 | 1st Week of Lent “Nothing makes us so like God, as being ready to forgive.” (Saint John Chrysostom) 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-morning-prayer/...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 22, 2024 | Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle “When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood", but from ‘my Father who is in heaven’ (Mt 16:17). Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by Him (…)” (Catechism of the Catholi...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - February 21, 2024 | 1st Week of Lent “One thing is clear: God’s sign for men is the Son of Man; it is Jesus himself. And at the deepest level, he is this sign in his Paschal Mystery, in the mystery of his death and Resurrection. He himself is “the sign of Jonah”.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and...