Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 12, 2022 | Tuesday in the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts." - Ps. 95:8

God has showed the light of His truth to those who go astray so that they may return to the right path. May we welcome the grace to reject whatever is contrary to the name of Christ and to strive after all that does it honor.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Tuesday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 11, 2022 | Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot

St. Benedict was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples came in numbers to join him and important Roman families entrusted him with the education of their children. He organized a form of monastic life in twelve small monasteries. Under his guidance, as abbot, the monks vowed to seek God and devoted themselves to work and prayer. A few years later St. Benedict left the district of Subiaco to found the great abbey of Monte Cassino on the heights of Campania. There he wrote his Rule in which are wonderfully combined the Roman genius and the monastic wisdom of the Christian East. St. Benedict died in 547.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Monday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 10, 2022 | Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

"The Word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance." - Deuteronomy 30:14

God's law is not beyond our strength nor our reach. God has written the law in our hearts so that we may know and obey His will. Let us get to know more this God of Love and allow ourselves to grow in friendship with Him so that we may love Him more dearly and follow Him more nearly.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Sunday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 9, 2022 | Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, Martyrs

Augustine Zhao Rong was one of the Chinese soldiers who escorted Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse to his execution. Moved by his patience, he asked to be baptized, and in due course was sent to the seminary and ordained a priest. He was arrested and savagely tortured. He died in 1815.

With him are celebrated 119 of his companions in martyrdom in China between 1648 and 1930 (including Bishop Dufresse). Official persecution of Christians by the Emperors ceased in 1842, but violent anti-religious sentiments persisted, and in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Christians were particularly attacked and many thousands were killed. 

St. Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, pray for us.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Saturday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Available on  Anchor, Spotify and Google.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 8, 2022 | Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me." - Ps 51:10

The Lord promises safety for those who remain in Him. He constantly calls us to conversion especially when our sin causes us to reject the Lord and His love for us. Today, let us keep pleading God to purify our hearts so that we may recognize His presence within and among us and we may walk in His ways.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Friday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Available on  Anchor, Spotify and Google.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 7, 2022 | Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give." - Mt. 10:8b

When Jesus sent out His disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God, He assures them that their needs will be provided for especially by the people they minister to. The mission God entrusted to us gives us the opportunity to be generous in preaching the Gospel without seeking for compensation. Today let us pray for a generous and joyful heart to love and serve the Lord and His Beloved Church.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Thursday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 6, 2022 | Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr

"Blessed is the virgin who denied herself and took up her cross; she has imitated the Lord; he is the spouse of virgins, the prince of martyrs." - Benedictus antiphon

St. Maria Goretti was born near Ancona (Italy). The daughter of a poor peasant family, Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was twelve she was a victim of assault. She preferred to die rather than to lose her virginity. She died in 1902, and her mother was present at her canonization in 1950, the first time a parent was present for a child's canonization.

Let us ask the intercession of St. Maria Goretti for the grace of purity of heart and mind in imitation of Jesus and the Holy Family.

Start your day with the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Wednesday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Available on  Anchor, Spotify and Google.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 5, 2022 | Tuesday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"The harvest is rich but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers to his harvest." - Mt. 9:37

God is constantly calling men and women to follow Him and to do the work for His Kingdom. Let us pray for more holy vocations in the Church and for the zeal to give our yes without counting the cost.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Tuesday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Available on  Anchor, Spotify and Google.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 4, 2022 | Monday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"Let all who thirst come; let all who desire it, drink from the life-giving water." - Revelation 22:17

God alone suffices. May He inspire us to yearn for Him always, like the deer for running streams, until He satisfies every longing in heaven.

Start your day with the universal prayer of the Church through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Monday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Available on  Anchor, Spotify and Google.

*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - July 3, 2022 | Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

"The harvest is rich but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers to his harvest." - Col 3:15a+16a

The mission God entrusted to us cannot be accomplished without Him. Let us rely on God's providence and keep our eyes fixed on our final goal, not getting drawn by the things of this world but on the life to come.

Let us join the universal Church in offering to God our Morning Praise through the ancient tradition of Lauds. Full-text to Sunday's Morning Prayer is available at ibreviary.com

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