Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 24, 2022 | Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a devotional with long and historic provenance within Christianity, and in modern times has been established as a Solemnity for the universal Church. Today we also pray for the Sanctification of Priests. May the Sacred Hea...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 23, 2022 | Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist St. John the Baptist has two feasts to himself. One, in August, celebrates his death, and one, in June, celebrates his birth. And this is as it should be, for as Christ himself said, John was the greatest of the sons of men. The greatest, but also the most tragic. A prophet from before his birth, leaping in...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 22, 2022 | Memorial of Saints John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs "Come let us worship Christ, the king of martyrs." - antiphon, lauds   St. Thomas More was born in London, England and was Chancellor of King Henry VIII. As a family man and a public servant, his life was a rare synthesis of human sensitivity and Christian wisdom. St. John Fisher studied...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 21, 2022 | Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious "How wonderful is God among his saints: come, let us adore him." - antiphon, Lauds St Aloysius was the eldest son of a Mantuan nobleman, and was intended by his father to be a soldier. Aloysius, on the other hand, had determined to be a missionary, and even to die for his faith. He renounced his birthright in fav...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 20, 2022 | Monday in the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time "I sing the goodness of the Lord, That filled the earth with food; He formed the creatures with his word, And then pronounced them good."                              &n...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 19, 2022 | Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | CORPUS CHRISTI SUNDAY "I am the living bread come down from heaven; anyone who eats this bread will live for ever, alleluia." - Gospel canticle antiphon What a beautiful gift we have been given in the Sacrament of the Real Presence of Jesus' body, blood, soul and divinity!  Jesus has left us the wo...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 18, 2022 | Saturday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time "But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides." - Mt. 6:33 Many things may cause us to worry and be anxious especially those beyond our control. Let us ask God to increase our faith and trust in Him so that we can surrender all things into His hands. C...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 17, 2022 | Friday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time "Give thanks to the Lord, for his great love is without end." - Psalm 107:1 How have you experienced the love of the Lord today? Pray for a grateful heart to recognize the daily manifestations of God's unconditional love for you. Begin by praying the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Friday's Morning Pray...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 16, 2022 | Thursday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time “This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven…”  Matthew 6:9 Join the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Thursday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 15, 2022 | Wednesday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time "Incline my heart according to your will O God." - Responsory, Lauds   Why do you do what you do? Are you OK with no one else recognizing your selflessness and acts of love? Let us ask God to grant us the grace to grow in holiness in the hidden and ordinary moments of our life. May we grow in our intimat...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 14, 2022 | Tuesday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." - Mt. 5:44 Who are those you have a difficult time loving? Have you prayed for them? Commit to pray for the person you struggle with the most and God will grant you grace upon grace to love even those who are hard to love. Commend them to the universal p...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 13, 2022 | Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church St. Anthony was an Augustinian monk prior to becoming a Franciscan friar. He was a devoted student of scriptures and the first to teach theology to his fellow friars. Known as the Evangelical Doctor, St. Anthony was a gifted orator and preacher. He died in 1231 at the age of 36. His shrine i...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 12, 2022 | Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Today the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity has also been declared by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) as Basic Ecclesial Community Sunday. We continue to deepen our conviction as a Church to work towards a stronger communion in faith as a Church draws its life and mission from the Most Holy Trin...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 11, 2022 | Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle Saint Barnabas was born in Cyprus. He was one of the early converts in Jerusalem and vouched for St. Paul when he appeared before the elders there. He accompanied Paul on his first missionary journey and later went to Cyprus with his cousin John Mark (Mark the evangelist) to preach the gospel there. He was probably martyre...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 10, 2022 | Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time "O Lord, hear my voice when I call; have mercy and answer.      Of you my heart has spoken: ‘Seek his face.’" - Psalm 27:7 Who is the source of your confidence? Take time to listen and discover God's presence in the ordinary movements of creation. Here God's story continues to unfold before...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 9, 2022 | Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest The Feast of Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest is a Roman Catholic moveable liturgical feast celebrated annually on the first Thursday after Pentecost. It is observed by the Confraternity of Christ the Priest in Australia and all the Roman Catholic dioceses of Spain.  The feast focuses firstly...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 8, 2022 | Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time "Let us serve the Lord in holiness all the days of our life." - Gospel antiphon God has given us a new day to let his light shine through us. May our thoughts, words and deeds proclaim him today. Unite yourself with the universal Church in praising and thanking the Lord through the ancient tradition of Lauds. &nb...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 7, 2022 | Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time "Let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father." - Mt 5:16 The world is so much in need of light because of the tremendous amount of darkness, pain and brokenness we see today. It is only when we remain connected with the source of life and light that we too c...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 6, 2022 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church "O happy Virgin, you gave birth to the Lord; O blessed mother of the Church, you warm our hearts with the Spirit of your Son Jesus Christ." - Gospel antiphon Pope Francis has decreed that the ancient devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Mother of the Church, be inserted into the Ro...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 5, 2022 | Pentecost Sunday (Year C) "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit..." - Acts 2:4 Today, we celebrate Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of the Church and of Christianity. The feast of Pentecost is a day of thanksgiving for the foundation of the Church, in which are contained all the treasures of supernatural riches, and through which all grace and redemp...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 4, 2022 | Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter "Know that I am with you always, even until the end of the world, alleluia." - canticle, Benedictus Even after ascending to heaven, Jesus continues to be with us through the presence of the Holy Spirit -- a powerful manifestation of God's enduring love for His children. Despite the many hardships we could come across i...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 3, 2022 | Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and companions, Martyrs "How precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his holy ones, alleluia." - Ps. 116:15 Today, together with the whole Church, we honor Charles Lwanga, and twenty-one other Ugandan martyrs. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Charles Lwanga, a...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 2, 2022 | Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter Father, let your Spirit come upon us with power to fill us with his gifts. May he make our hearts pleasing to you, and ready to do your will. - Closing Prayer, Lauds Echo the prayer of the Church as we praise and thank God for the gift of this day through the ancient tradition of Lauds.  Full-text to Thursday's Mo...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 1, 2022 | Memorial of St. Justin, martyr St. Justin, apologist and martyr, was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. He himself tells how his study of all the schools of philosophy led him to Christianity, and how he dedicated his life to the defense of the Christian faith as "the one certain and profitable philosophy." With St. Justin le...

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 31, 2022 | Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary "Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." (Luke 1:45) Would it not be an honor for the Blessed Mother, the mother of Jesus, to come to us for a visit? Like Elizabeth, we too are equally blessed to invite the Mother of God into our lives as she...