Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 16, 2023 | Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

"I am the good shepherd, says the Lord, I know my sheep, and mine know me." - John 10:14

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, designated the Friday after the Second Sunday of Pentecost. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 478:

"Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each one of us: "The Son of God. . . loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2:20). He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation (Cf. Jn 19:34), "is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that. . . love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings" without exception (Pius XII, Enc. Haurietis aquas (1956): DS 3924; cf. DS 3812).

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 15, 2023 | Thursday in the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time

"I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven." - Mt. 5:20

Seeking the "spirit" of the Law, as God intended from the start, is more crucial than becoming righteous for the sake of adherence. Jesus challenges us to sincerely keep God's commandments. He impresses his command of love, mercy, and reconciliation as the supreme Lawgiver, even greater than Moses.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 14, 2023 | Wednesday in the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time

"I have come not to abolish but to fulfill." - Mt. 5:17

Jesus was a faithful Jew who followed the Sabbath rest and the traditional forms of piety. However, he also puts more importance to delivering people from their ailments and torments even if it means healing on a Sabbath. May we learn to adhere to the spirit of God's commandments and not simply obeying out of compliance as our way of loving God.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 13, 2023 | Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church

St. Anthony of Padua was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1195. He became a canon regular and then a Franciscan preaching the Gospel everywhere in Portugal and Italy. Both as a theologian and as a popular preacher, he fought vigorously against heresy. His preaching was inspired by the love of God and of souls and had an extraordinary power of conviction; it was filled with the penetrating power of the Bible. Pope Gregory IX, who heard him preach, called him during his lifetime the Arca Testamenti, meaning "the living repository of the Holy Scriptures" and Pope Pius XII, when he proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church, declared that he based all that he said on the texts of the Gospels, and could justly be called the Evangelical Doctor. St. Anthony lived for a time in France, but chiefly in Italy, and died at Padua in 1231 at age 36, with the reputation of great sanctity. From the day of his death innumerable miracles caused the faithful to invoke him as a wonderworker of untiring benevolence. He died in 1231.

St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 12, 2023 | Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time

"Taste and see the goodness of the Lord." - Ps. 34

When we persevere through the hardships of life while loving, serving, praising and glorifying the Lord, then we will be blessed by the reward promised to us by the Lord. Let us ask the Lord for the grace to persevere and remain strong in faith especially in times when we encounter sufferings and persecutions for the sake of God's Kingdom.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 11, 2023 | Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

"While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, 'Take it; this is my body.' Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.'" - Mt. 26:26-28

The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ is observed on the Thursday following on the solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. Where the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ is not observed as a Holy Day of obligation on Thursday, it is assigned to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday, which is then considered its proper day in the calendar.

Corpus Christi Sunday is the solemn commemoration of the institution of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. It is, moreover, the Church's official act of homage and gratitude to Christ, who by instituting the Holy Eucharist, gave to the Church her greatest treasure. Holy Thursday, assuredly, marks the anniversary of the institution, but the commemoration of the Lord's passion that very night suppresses the rejoicing proper to the occasion. Today's observance, therefore, accents the joyous aspect of Holy Thursday.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 10, 2023 | Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

"Praise God and tell everyone about the good things he has done for you, so that they too will honor him and sing his praises. Let everyone know what God has done. Never stop praising him. - Tobit 12:6

How do you thank God for all that He is and all that He has done for you?

The gesture of the widow in today's Gospel speaks of her total generosity and trust to the providence of God. She was willing to give up all that she had to live on as her way of loving God. May all that we are and do reflect God's undying generosity to us and may we persevere in our daily acts of charity for His glory and for the good of the People of God.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 9, 2023 | Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church

The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the mysteries of Christ, the Blessed Virgin and the saints. He had a great devotion to Our Lady. He was a commentator on Scripture and a preacher as well as a poet, and has left a considerable number of works, which were translated into other Eastern languages as well as into Greek and Latin. He died in 373. Pope Benedict XV proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1920.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 8, 2023 | Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these." - Mark 12:30-31

Love is God's greatest command to the human heart.

All of us ache for a connection and no matter where we look, our hearts will always be restless until it rests in the Lord. May we find in the landscape of our life the footprints of God and so grow in generous response to the love He so bestows upon us each day through our acts of worship to God and through our works of charity to our neighbor.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - June 7, 2023 | Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

"I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is the God of the living, not of the dead." - Mark 12:26-27

When we physically die in this life part of us lives on forever. For those who trust in the Lord, Christ promises eternal life. Let us seek to nurture that which no moth on this earth can destroy.

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