Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 14, 2023 | Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr

“O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you, and for all who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of the Church and those recommended to you.”

Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe

St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe was also known as Raymund Kolbe. He was a Catholic priest and a Conventual Franciscan friar born on January 8 1894 in Zduńska Wola, Poland. He died on August 14 1941 at the age of 47 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland during the German occupation in World War II when he volunteered to die in place of a stranger.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 13, 2023 | 19th SUNDAY in Ordinary Time

Collect:

Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised. Through our Lord.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 12, 2023 | Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him." - invitatory antiphon

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 12, 2023 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him." - invitatory antiphon

Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe to Sunday's Morning Prayer here:

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 11, 2023 | Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, Virgin

"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." - Matthew 16:24

St. Clare was born at Assisi and came under the influence of Saint Francis. She left home at the age of 18 and, under Francis’s guidance, began a community that grew to become the order of the Poor Clares (she was later joined both by her sister and by her widowed mother). In its radical attachment to poverty the Rule of the order was much more severe than that of any other order of nuns. In 1215 Clare obtained from the Pope the privilege of owning nothing, so that the nuns of the order were to be sustained by alms and nothing else. Such a rule was (like the Franciscan rule) both a challenge to established structures and a risk to those who followed it, and successive Popes tried to modify it. In 1247 Pope Innocent IV promulgated a new Rule that allowed the ownership of communal property: Clare rewrote it. A later attempt at mitigation in 1263 partly succeeded (perhaps because Clare was dead by then): some communities followed the old, strict rule and some followed the new.

Clare was a noted contemplative and a caring mother to her nuns. She died at Assisi in 1253.

St. Clare, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 10, 2023 | Memorial of St. Laurence, Deacon, Martyr

"If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him." - John 12:26

St. Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the Church of Rome and was executed on 10th August 258, four days after Sixtus II and his companions. By now, few of the facts of his life are known for certain: he was probably a Spaniard from Toledo.  A basilica was built over Laurence’s tomb fifty years after his death, by the Emperor Constantine, and the anniversary of his martyrdom was kept as a solemn feast – with considerably more solemnity than that of Pope Sixtus II (we do not know why). By the sixth century, it was one of the most important feasts throughout much of western Christendom. His name occurs (with Sixtus’s) in the Roman Canon of the Mass.

St. Laurence, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 09, 2023 | Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin, Martyr

“O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” - Matthew 15:28

St. Teresa Benedicta was born into a practicing Jewish family. She had a distinguished career as a philosopher and received a doctorate at the University of Freiburg, but her academic career was impeded because she was a woman.

She entered a Carmelite monastery in Cologne and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her order moved her to the Netherlands to keep her safe from the growing Nazi threat. While a Carmelite she wrote an important philosophical book, seeking to combine the phenomenology of her former teacher Edmund Husserl with the philosophy of Aquinas, and she also wrote on St John of the Cross.

On 20 July 1942 the Dutch Bishops’ Conference had a statement read in all churches condemning Nazi racism. In retaliation the authorities ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts to Christianity. Teresa Benedicta was taken to Auschwitz and killed on 9 August 1942.

St. Teresa Benedicta, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 08, 2023 | Memorial of St. Dominic de Guzman, Priest

"Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." - John 1:49

St. Dominic was born in Castile (part of modern Spain) and became a canon of the Cathedral of Osma. In 1216 he founded the Order of Preachers, dedicated to saving souls by preaching and persuasion. Like the Franciscans, founded a few years before, the Dominicans put great importance on poverty, both of the individual and of the community, and of the need to be involved directly in the world while still living some form of monastic life. At a time when the settled Benedictine monasteries had grown into great and rich institutions, this was a revolutionary and to some a subversive concept. The Friars made a lasting impact on the life of mediaeval Europe, and the Dominicans in particular altered the course of intellectual history by making a well-thought-out and rational response to the new learning that was appearing as long-forgotten thinkers such as Aristotle became known once more in the Christian West.

St. Dominic, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - MONDAY, 07 August 2023 | Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

"He looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds." - Matthew 14:19

Do you have your own meaningful encounter with Jesus?

Today we see a totally different kind of behavior in Jesus when he receives news about the death of John. He withdraws to a lonely place, but the crowd won't accept it and they follow Him. There are moments in our lives when Jesus seems to hide from us. He is just nowhere to be found. So there are times when even we feel desperate and hopeless like the crowd to find Jesus. Each of us must have had an experience with Jesus to have that fire within us. May that longing to be with Christ continue to dwell in our hearts.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 06, 2023 | Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him." - Matthew 17:5

The Transfiguration gives us a fresh opportunity to renew our faith in the lordship of Jesus. Jesus is exalted above all and His dominion will last forever. Today is a day of testimonies. God bears witness to the fact that Jesus is the Son of God to whom we must pledge obedience and worship. Those who recognize Jesus as Lord experience concretely His power in their lives. With all the love that our hearts bear, let us profess that it is good for us to be with Christ our Lord, in thankful acknowledgement of his kindness in admitting us into His presence. Let us boldly confess Jesus as Lord, to the glory of the Father.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - August 5, 2023 | Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In the Gospel we see how many people are affected by just one true sentence of john the Baptist; it is against the law for you to have your brother’s wife. That sparks off violent reactions in Herod, Herodias and then her daughter. A holy man gets executed all because some people care more about their reputation and the opinion of others than gods law. When we live out the Christian values of love, patience, humility etc. and get slapped in the face, we may wonder if it is worth it. But let us remember that when we do good, the benefactors are not just the others. We ourselves begin to realize our Christian identity and see the power of God’s goodness and love happening in the lives of others.

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