Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer - February 12, 2022 | Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Sing a new song to the Lord for praise is fitting for the King of kings!

Let us be ready to welcome God in our hearts as we glorify him in our morning prayer. Join the universal Church in praying Saturday's Lauds. Text is available at ibreviary.com

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Morning Prayer - February 11, 2022 | Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes

Today marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to St. Bernadette in the hollow of the rock at Lourdes. On March 25 she said to the little shepherdess who was only fourteen years of age: "I am the Immaculate Conception." Since then Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and many cures and conversions have taken place. The message of Lourdes is a call to personal conversion, prayer, and charity. (Source: Catholic Culture)

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Morning Prayer - February 10, 2022 | Memorial of St. Scholastica, abbess

St. Scholastica, the twin sister of St. Benedict, was born in 480 of wealthy parents. The twins were brought up together until Benedict left central Italy for Rome to continue his studies.

Little is known of Scholastica’s early life. She founded a religious community for women near Monte Cassino at Plombariola, five miles from where her brother governed a monastery. The twins visited each other once a year in a farmhouse because Scholastica was not permitted inside the monastery. They spent these times discussing spiritual matters.

According to the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great, the brother and sister spent their last day together in prayer and conversation. Scholastica sensed her death was close at hand and she begged Benedict to stay with her until the next day. He refused her request because he did not want to spend a night outside the monastery, thus breaking his own Rule. Scholastica asked God to let her brother remain and a severe thunderstorm broke out, preventing Benedict and his monks from returning to the abbey.

Benedict cried out, “God forgive you, Sister. What have you done?” Scholastica replied, “I asked a favor of you and you refused. I asked it of God and he granted it.”

Brother and sister parted the next morning after their long discussion. Three days later, Benedict was praying in his monastery and saw the soul of his sister rising heavenward in the form of a white dove. Benedict then announced the death of his sister to the monks and later buried her in the tomb he had prepared for himself. (Source: Franciscan Media)

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February 9, 2022 | Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Let us sing a new hymn to our God and offer to Him our sacrifice of praise. 

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February 8, 2022

Memorial of St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin

Josephine Bakhita was born near Jebel Agilere in South Darfur (Sudan). Kidnapped when still very young, she experienced the cruelty of slavery as she was sold several times in slave markets of Africa. Finally she was rescued by an Italian family and brought to Italy where she not only became a Christian but also felt the call to consecrate her life to God as a sister. She joined the Canossian Daughters of Charity and lived the rest of her life at Schio, a small village near Vicenza. She died on 8 February, 1947.

Other saint: 

St Jerome Emiliani (1486 - 1537)

He was born near Venice in 1486. He started his career as a soldier but after he was taken prisoner and then miraculously liberated, he devoted himself to helping the poor, distributing his own possessions among them also. Two priests joined him in this task and in 1532 he founded a religious order, the Clerks Regular of Somaschi, for the relief of poor and orphaned children. He died at Somaschi (near Bergamò) in 1537.

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February 7, 2022 | Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Let us lift our heart to the Lord and He will hear our morning prayer!

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Morning Prayer - February 6, 2022 | Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jesus rose early in the morning and went out to a place of solitude, and there he prayed.

Let us join our Lord in prayer on this Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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February 5, 2022

Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr

As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that she was martyred in Sicily during the persecution of Emperor Decius in 251.

Legend has it that Agatha, like Agnes, was arrested as a Christian, tortured, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated. She was preserved from being violated, and was later put to death.

She is claimed as the patroness of both Palermo and Catania. The year after her death, the stilling of an eruption of Mt. Etna was attributed to her intercession. As a result, apparently, people continued to ask her prayers for protection against fire.

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Morning Prayer - February 4, 2022

Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

"Indeed, how good is the Lord: bless his holy name."

Today is a great day to praise the Lord! Let us glorify Him in our Morning Prayer.

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Morning Prayer - February 3, 2022

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

"In the early hours of the morning I think of you, O Lord..."

Let us offer our praise and thanksgiving to God in today's Morning Prayer.

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