Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 02, 2024 |Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church “Jesus' messianic consecration reveals his divine mission (…). ‘The one who was anointed is the Son, and he was anointed with the Spirit who is the anointing' (St. Irenaeus of Lyon). His eternal messianic consecration was revealed during the time of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 01, 2024 |Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God Jesus is the Son of God and at the same time he is the son of a woman, Mary. He comes from her. He is of God and of Mary. For this reason one can and must call the Mother of Jesus the Mother of God, “Theotókos” (Council of Ephesus, 431 A.D.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds,...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 31, 2023 |Feast of The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Family life initiates every individual into the reality that no human person is an island. We are dependent beings. That is why in the Holy Family we find model qualities that should govern every well-meaning family. Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, sha...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 30, 2023 | Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas “Anna is a "prophetess", a wise and pious woman. Her long widowhood devoted to worship in the temple, and participation in the expectation for the redemption of Israel culminated in her meeting with the Child Jesus.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 29, 2023 | Fifth Day within the Octave of Christmas “The presentation of Jesus in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord. With Simeon and Anna (…) Jesus is recognized as the long-expected Messiah, the ‘light to the nations’ and the ‘glory of Israel’, but also ‘a sign that is spoken against’. The sword of sorrow predicted for Mary ann...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 28, 2023 | Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs “The Son of God —the eternal Word— has become a child so that God is within our reach. He thus teaches us to love the little ones; to love the weak; to respect children.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify....

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 27, 2023 | Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist “John, next to the manger tells us: look at what is granted to those who give themselves to God with a pure heart. They will participate in the total and inexhaustible fullness of the human-divine life of Christ as a real reward.” (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) Join the universal Church in praying the Of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 26, 2023 | Feast of St. Stephen, Martyr "If not all are called, like St Stephen, to shed their blood, each Christian is, however, asked to be consistent in every circumstance with the faith that he or she professes" (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotif...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 25, 2023 | Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord COLLECT PRAYER O God, who have made this most sacred night radiant with the splendor of the true light, grant, we pray, that we, who have known the mysteries of his light on earth, may also delight in his gladness in heaven. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Join...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 24, 2023 | 4th Sunday of Advent COLLECT PRAYER Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son was made known by the message of an Angel, may by his Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 23, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent “To adore God is to acknowledge, in respect and absolute submission, the "nothingness of the creature" who would not exist but for God. To adore God is to praise and exalt him and to humble oneself, as Mary did in the Magnificat, confessing with gratitude that he has done great things and holy is his name...” (Catechism Of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 22, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent “To adore God is to acknowledge, in respect and absolute submission, the "nothingness of the creature" who would not exist but for God. To adore God is to praise and exalt him and to humble oneself, as Mary did in the Magnificat, confessing with gratitude that he has done great things and holy is his name...” (Catechism Of...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 21, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent “Elizabeth is the first in the long succession of generations who have called Mary ‘blessed’. ‘Blessed is she who believed...’ (Lk 1:45). Mary is ‘blessed among women’ because she believed in the fulfillment of the Lord's word (…). Mary, because of her faith, became the mother of believers, through whom all nations of the earth r...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 20, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent What does God expect from me, now, today, at work, in my relationships with others, and in my relationship with God? “Mary is the docile servant of the holy Word. There were reasons to be afraid, because carrying the weight of the world, being the mother of the King of the universe was stronger than any forces of a human being. That...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 19, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent “‘There was a man sent from God, whose name was John’ (Jn 1:6). John was ‘filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb’ (Lk 1:15:41) by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary's visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people.” (Catechism Of The Catholic C...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 18, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent “Let us allow ourselves to be ‘filled’ with St Joseph's silence! We are in such deep need of it! During this season of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate inner recollection” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here: https://open.spotify.co...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 17, 2023 | 3rd Week of Advent COLLECT PRAYER O God, who see how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s Nativity, enable us, we pray, to attain the joys of so great a salvation and to celebrate them always with solemn worship and glad rejoicing. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, Go...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 16, 2023 | Second Week of Advent “It is intolerable for love not to see the object of its longing. That is why whatever reward they merited was nothing to the saints if they could not see they Lord. It gave Moses the temerity to say: If I have found favor in your eyes, show me your face.” (St Peter Chrysologus) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of L...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 15, 2023 | Second Week of Advent “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man” (Jn 3:13). Left to its own natural powers humanity does not have access to the `Father's house’ (Jn 14:2), to God's life and happiness. Only Christ can open to man such access.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 661) Join the universal C...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 14, 2023 | Memorial of St. john of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church "Never take a man for your example in the tasks you have to perform, however holy he may be, for the devil will set his imperfection before you. But imitate Jesus Christ, who is supremely perfect and supremely holy, and you will never err." - St. John of the Cross Join the uni...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 13, 2023 | Memorial of St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr “When God lays this arm on our shoulders as “his light yoke,” then that is precisely not a burden he is loading onto us, but rather the gesture of receiving us in love. The “yoke” of this arm is not a burden, but a gift of love that carries us and makes us sons.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in prayin...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 12, 2023 | Memorial of Our Lady of Guadalupe “A person is comforted when he feels the Lord’s mercy and forgiveness. The joy of the Church is to `give birth’, to come out of herself in order to give life, to go out in search of those sheep who are lost.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and su...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 11, 2023 | 2nd Week of Advent “Jesus hears the prayer of faith, expressed in words (the leper; Jairus; the Canaanite woman; the good thief) or in silence (the bearers of the paralytic; the woman with a hemorrhage who touches his clothes). Jesus always responds to a prayer offered in faith.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 2616) Join the universal Church in...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 10, 2023 | 2nd Week of Advent COLLECT PRAYER Almighty and merciful God, may no earthly undertaking hinder those who set out in haste to meet your Son, but may our learning of heavenly wisdom gain us admittance to his company. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. Join the universal Church in praying the Offic...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 09, 2023 | 1st Week of Advent “The world is not a futile confusion of drudgery and pain, for all the distress the world contains is supported in the arms of merciful love. The person who celebrates Advent in this spirit will legitimately be able to speak of the joyous, blessed and grace-filled season of Christmas.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in pray...