Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 24, 2022 | Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

"Blessed + be the Lord, the God of Israel; *

he has come to his people and set them free." - Benedictus

The feast of our salvation draws ever closer. Let us not grow weary in doing what is right. Let us press on with faith, hope and love, for the Lord comes to free us from our enemies and those who hate us.

Join the whole universal Church in praying Thursday's Lauds, wherever you are.  Text is available at ibreviary.com. 

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 23, 2022 | Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

"Blessed be God who comforts us in all our trials." (2 Cor. 1:3, 4)

Do not forget the things the merciful God has done for you. He has brought you thus far. Trust him the rest of the journey. Keep walking. Keep praying.

Join the whole universal Church in praying Wednesday's Lauds, wherever you are.  Text is available at ibreviary.com. 

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*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 22, 2022 | Monday of the Third Week of Lent

"Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord is an eternal rock." - Is. 26:4

Our own strength can only get us so far. It is the Lord who makes us victorious against our battles. May we find in ourselves, a soul yearning for God's abiding presence and a heart longing for his salvation.

Join the whole universal Church in praying Tuesday's Lauds, wherever you are.  Text is available at ibreviary.com. 

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*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 21, 2022 | Monday of the Third Week of Lent

How lovely is your dwelling place,

Lord, God of hosts. - Ps. 84:1

Everyday is a new opportunity to grow in friendship with God. May we find in His Word a sure guide to His loving presence and the strength to walk in this valley of tears.

Join the whole universal Church in praying Monday's Lauds, wherever you are.  Text is available at ibreviary.com. 

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*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 21, 2022 | Third Sunday of Lent

Lent is the time of effort, warfare, discipline. Let us look and look again at the suffering Jesus and take the weight of shame and sorrow.

Let us continue our Lenten practices for our conversion and the healing of the world.

Follow Sunday's Morning Prayer (Lauds) wherever you are. Text is available at ibreviary.com. This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 19, 2022 | Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin

"Well done, good and faithful servant. Come, share your master's joy." - Mt. 25:21

St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster-father of Jesus, was probably born in Bethlehem and probably died in Nazareth. His important mission in God's plan of salvation was "to legally insert Jesus Christ into the line of David from whom, according to the prophets, the Messiah would be born, and to act as his father and guardian" (Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy). 

Most of our information about St. Joseph comes from the opening two chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel. No words of his are recorded in the Gospels; he was the "silent" man. We find no devotion to St. Joseph in the early Church. It was the will of God that the Virgin Birth of Our Lord be first firmly impressed upon the minds of the faithful. He was later venerated by the great saints of the Middle Ages. Pius IX (1870) declared him patron and protector of the universal family of the Church. (Catholic Culture)

Follow Saturday's Morning Prayer (Lauds) wherever you are. Text is available at ibreviary.com. This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN: Morning Prayer - March 18, 2022 | Friday in the Second Week of Lent

This Friday, we continue our Lenten fast and offer our works, prayers and sacrifices for all catechumens of the faith. 

Today, we also commemorate St. Cyril, the bishop of Jerusalem who, along with St. Athanasius and others, belongs to the great champions of faith in the fight against Arianism. Famous as a teacher and preacher, he has left a series of catechetical instructions that constitute a priceless heirloom from Christian antiquity. Of the twenty-four extant discourses, nineteen were directed to catechumens during Lent as a preparation for baptism, while five so-called mystagogical instructions were given during Easter time to make the mysteries of Christianity better known to those already baptized. He died in 386. He is held in high esteem by both the Catholics and the Orthodox, and he was declared a Doctor of the Church by the Pope in 1883.

Follow Friday's Morning Prayer (Lauds) wherever you are. Text is available at ibreviary.com. This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN: Morning Prayer - March 17, 2022 | Thursday in the Second Week of Lent

"My strength and my courage is the Lord, *

and he has been my savior." - Lauds, March 17

What battles are you fighting today? Whether they be physical, emotional or spiritual, let God fight for you. Go to him with your trembling hands and weak spirit and He will deliver you from all your enemies. 

"Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil... Pray in the Spirit at all times." - Eph. 6:11, 18

Follow Thursday's Morning Prayer (Lauds) wherever you are. Text is available at ibreviary.com. This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records

LISTEN: Morning Prayer - March 16, 2022 | Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent

"O God, all your ways are holy; what god can compare with our God?" - Lauds, March 16

God has established his ancient covenant by signs and wonders, but he wondrously confirmed the new one with the sacrifice of His Son. How has God revealed Himself to you today?

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LISTEN: Morning Prayer - March 15, 2022 | Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent

"God himself will set me free, from the hunter's snare." - Lauds, responsory

What is enslaving you these days? Call on the Lord with humility and trust, for His great love has the power to set you free.

Follow Tuesday's Lauds wherever you are. Text is available at ibreviary.com. This daily podcast is brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication.

*Music: Deeper Melodies by WTB Records