Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 9, 2022 | Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

"In all circumstances, give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus." - Lk 17:11-19

Have you thanked the Lord today?

When we sincerely offer thanks to God for all that He has done, we are manifesting great faith in God as a result. We are pointing to Him and His goodness as the source of our blessings and it takes faith to see this and to profess it.

What is it for which you need to grow in gratitude in your life? What is it that you may take for granted and have failed to properly return to God and thank Him for? The truth is that everything in life is a gift. Everything. Even the struggles you endure can be turned into blessings. (Catholic Daily Reflections)

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 8, 2022 | Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it." - Lk 11:28

Do you hear the Word of God? And if you do hear it, do you observe it? If so, then you can consider yourself among those truly blessed by our Lord. Though it can be challenging to hear Jesus speak and to internalize what He says, it is even more challenging to then let His Word change us to the point that we live what He has spoken. Today, reflect upon whether you are living what you know He has spoken. Recommit yourself to this process and you will find that you, too, are truly blessed! (Catholic Daily Reflections)

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 7, 2022 | Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary

"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb." - Lk 1:28, 42

The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary was instituted to honor Mary for the Christian victory over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. Pope St. Pius V and all Christians had prayed the Rosary for victory. The Rosary, or the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the best prayers to Mary, the Mother of God.

Pope Benedict XVI invited all families to pray the Rosary for the intentions of the Pope, the mission of the Church and peace. "It is as if every year Our Lady invited us to rediscover the beauty of this prayer, so simple and profound." The Rosary, a "contemplative and Christocentric prayer, inseparable from the meditation of Sacred Scripture," is "the prayer of the Christian who advances in the pilgrimage of faith, in the following of Jesus, preceded by Mary," said the Pontiff.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 6, 2022 | Thursday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time / Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, Priest

"Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son." - Acts 16:14b

St. Bruno (1030-1101) was born in Cologne, Germany. He became a priest and achieved fame as a professor of theology at Rheims. He decided to leave the world and pursue a life of complete solitude and prayer. He established his hermitage in Chartreuse, near Grenoble, France. Soon he attracted disciples and he established the first monastery of Carthusian monks. Pope Urban II called him to Rome, but later Bruno was able to establish a second monastery in Italy. He died in 1101 at Calabria.

St. Bruno, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 5, 2022 | Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

"You have received a spirit of adoption as sons through which we cry: Abba! Father!" - Rom 8:15c

How do you pray?

Jesus has taught us to call God Our Father so we have the courage to pray as He did: with trust and confidence in the Father's love for us. In teaching us the Lord's Prayer, Jesus has taught us a perfect example of how to pray to His Heavenly Father. As His adopted children, we are called to nurture strong bonds of love among us. In times when we fail to do so, let us remember that forgiveness is the key to healing relationships that have been strained or broken. God loves a repentant sinner. May God grant us humble and contrite hearts to admit our faults and failures and, like little children, run back to Him whom we know loves us.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 4, 2022 | Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, Religious

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." - Mt. 5:3

Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226). Francis Bernardone was born and died in Assisi. He was the son of a rich merchant, Pietro Bernardone, received a good education, and in the beginning followed the ways of the world. He was taken prisoner in the battle between the Assisians and Perugians, and after his release decided to abandon everything for Christ. His father became extremely displeased at his action, and disinherited him. In 1220 he founded a new order which in ten years numbered five thousand brothers. His followers were called Friars Minor because they were to consider themselves as the least among religious. Out of humility Francis never accepted the priesthood but remained a deacon all his life. He had a great love for God's creatures and called them his brothers and sisters. His ardent love of God merited for him the name of Seraphic. He is also nicknamed God's Fool and Il Poverello (The little poor one). (CatholicCulture.org)

St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 3, 2022 | Monday in the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

"Who is my neighbor?" - Luke 10:29

Love of God and neighbor sums up Jesus' greatest commandment: love.  We can easily isolate others by how we define our relationship with them. But as Jesus taught, it is when we go beyond our set boundaries and reach out in love to others, as the Good Samaritan did, that we can truly embrace God's love. As we begin a new workweek, we ask the Lord to strengthen our hearts that we may make ourselves a neighbor to all we encounter as our way of loving Him.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 2, 2022 | Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

"Praise the Lord from the heavens, alleluia." - Lauds, antiphon

Lord, extolled in the heights by angelic powers, you are also praised by all earth’s creatures, each in its own way. With all the splendor of heavenly worship, you still delight in such tokens of love as earth can offer. May heaven and earth together acclaim you as king; may the praise that is sung in heaven resound in the heart of every creature on earth.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 1, 2022 | Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

"Thus says the Lord: Unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - Mt. 18:3

Today is the Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897), more popularly known as "the Little Flower." Although just an obscure cloistered Carmelite nun, she has had universal appeal since her death in 1897. Her Little Way of Spiritual Childhood brought to focus God's condescending mercy to the little ones. St. Thérèse is the patroness of all foreign missions and patroness of France, and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997. Her parents, Louis and Zélie Martin, were canonized by Pope Francis on 18 October 2015. Their feast day is 12 July.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - September 30, 2022 | Memorial of St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

"Blessed indeed is he who ponders the law of the Lord day and night: he will yield his fruit in due season." - Ps. 1:2-3

Born in Dalmatia of a Christian in 340, St. Jerome was baptized in Rome, while taking his classical courses. He then studied under the best masters in foreign cities. He was attracted by the ascetic life and travelled to the East, where he was (unwillingly) ordained a priest. He was recalled to Rome to act as secretary to Pope Damasus, but on the Pope’s death he returned to the East, to Bethlehem, where (with the aid of St Paula and others) he founded a monastery, a hospice, and a school, and settled down to the most important work of his life, the translation of the Bible into Latin, a translation which, with some revisions, is still in use today. He wrote many works of his own, including letters and commentaries on Holy Scripture. When a time of troubles came upon the world, through barbarian invasions, and to the Church, through internal dissension, he helped the refugees and those in need. He died at Bethlehem in 420.

Through the intercession of St. Jerome, may we open our hearts to listen to the words of God in Sacred Scriptures and incarnate the Good News in our lives.

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