Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

Tuesday, 25 January 2022 Feast of the the Conversion of Saint Paul Saul, the young man who looked after the cloaks of the men who were stoning St Stephen, grew into a dedicated and efficient persecutor of Christians. Today’s feast celebrates the day that Christ appeared to him in a vision as he was on the way to Damascus, reproached him for his persecutions and converted him to the true faith...

Monday, 24 January 2022 Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church St Francis was born near Annecy, in Savoy, studied the law, and was ordained to the priesthood despite the opposition of his father. His first mission was to re-evangelize the people of his home district (the Chablais), who had gone over to Calvinism.  St Francis taught that we can all attain a devout and spiritual...

Sunday, 23 January 2022 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle C) Your daily morning prayer habit. Brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

22 January 2022 Memorial of St. Vincent, deacon and martyr St Vincent was born in Huesca, Spain, and became a deacon of the church of Saragossa (Zaragoza). He was tortured to death in Valencia, in the persecution of Diocletian. After his death, his cult spread rapidly through the Roman Empire. Text of today's Lauds here: http://www.ibreviary.com/ Make it your daily morning habit and commune with t...

21 January 2022 Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr St Agnes (- 304) As with so many of the early Roman martyrs, very little is now known about Agnes’ life. Partly this is because the details have been obscured by the light that shines from her martyrdom and the cult that it inspired, and partly because if you are martyred at the age of 12, your life has not really acquired that many details...

20 January 2022 Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle C) Pray the Psalms with the universal Church. Follow today's Lauds here: http://www.ibreviary.com/ This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication | Facebook

19 January 2022 Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle C) Pray the Psalms with the universal Church. Follow today's Lauds here: http://www.ibreviary.com/m/breviario.php?s=lodi This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication | Facebook

Tuesday, 18 January 2022 2nd Week in Ordinary Time (Year II Cycle C) Pray without ceasing. (1 Thes. 5:16) Your daily Morning Prayer brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

Memorial, St. Anthony, Abbot Today, the Church commemorates the abbot from the 3rd century. St. Anthony, the father of monks, retired to the desert at about the age of eighteen in order to live in perfect solitude. He laid the foundations of community life, and gave to his disciples that profound broad and sane instruction, the mature result of solitude and prayer, which forms the surest basis of...

Sunday, 16 January 2022 Feast of the Santo Niño (proper Feast in the Philippines) The devotion to the Santo Niño (Holy Child) is the oldest and one of the most popular in the Philippines. When Legazpi landed on the island of Cebu in 1565, one of his soldiers found an image of the Child Jesus. It is believed to be the same statue Magellan had given to the wife of the chieftain of the island after h...

Begin your day with your Morning Prayer, in union with the Body of Christ, the Church! Today is the FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD, which ushers in the start of the Ordinary Season of the Church calendar year.