Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 27, 2023 | Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

"Take delight in the LORD, and he will grant you your heart’s requests." - Ps. 37:4

God holds our best interest and it is in Him that we will find the joy and fullness we seek in life. He invites us to commit all our ways to Him for He is trustworthy and He will act. May we open our hearts to God's merciful love so that like mustard seeds, our faith may grow and bear fruits for His Kingdom.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 26, 2023 | Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, Bishops

"Go into all the world, and proclaim the Gospel." - Mk 16:15

Timothy and Titus were converted to Christianity by St Paul, and became his companions and helpers. Paul entrusted Timothy with the care of the Christians in Ephesus, and sent Titus to Crete to look after the Christians there. He wrote them the so-called “pastoral” epistles, giving advice for pastors and people alike.

Sts. Timothy and Titus, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 25, 2023 | Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle

"I live by faith in the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself up for me." - Gal 2:2

The Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul celebrates St. Paul turning away from persecution of Christians to promoting Christianity. St. Paul, named Saul at his circumcision, a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, was born at Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia. He was a Roman citizen. He was brought up as a strict Jew, and later became a violent persecutor of the Christians. While on his way to Damascus to make new arrests of Christians, he was suddenly converted by a miraculous apparition of Our Lord. From a fierce persecutor, he became the great Apostle of the Gentiles. He made three missionary journeys which brought him to the great centers of Asia Minor and southern Europe, and made many converts. Fourteen of his Epistles are found in the New Testament. He was beheaded in Rome around 66 A.D., and his relics are in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls near the Ostian Way. (Catholicculture.org)

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 24, 2023 | Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

"Behold a faithful and prudent steward to give them their allowance of food at the proper time." - Lk 12:42

Today is the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop and Doctor of the Church. St. Francis' ardent love of God and souls, his great kindliness, rare wisdom and sure teaching made him exceptionally influential in bringing about conversions and in guiding souls in the spiritual life. He won back to the faith more than 70,000 heretics, thus restoring to the Church a great part of the Chablais, which had been ravaged by Protestantism. He was St. Jane de Chantal's spiritual director, and with her founded the Order of the Visitation. He is the author of Treatise on the Love of God and Introduction to the Devout Life. St. Francis died at Lyons in 1622.

St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 23, 2023 | Monday in the Third Week in Ordinary Time

"Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel." - 2 Tim. 1:10

The Word of God nourishes and sustains His people for the Kingdom.

From Jan. 23 to 29, the Church in the Philippines celebrate National Bible Week. All Filipinos are enjoined for one week to focus on the reading and studying of the Bible toward the nation's spiritual, moral and social stability. It closes on Sunday, Bible Sunday.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 22, 2023 | Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sunday of the Word of God)

"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone." - Is. 9:1

Christ came to bring to those who believe in Him, liberation from that which oppresses them. His light conquers the darkness that shrouds the world with gloom and in Him is joy and gladness. Let us pray for a true conversion of our hearts that enables us to receive Christ as the only Light to follow as He is the only one who can dispel the darkness within and around us.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 21, 2023 | Memorial of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr

"Behold, now she follows the Lamb who was crucified for us, powerful in virginity, modesty her offering, a sacrifice on the altar of chastity." - Entrance antiphon

St. Agnes (c. 304), like St. Cecilia, is to be numbered among the most famous martyrs of Rome. When the Diocletian persecution was at its height, and when priests as well as laymen were apostatizing from the faith, Agnes, a girl of twelve, freely chose to die for Christ. When she was commanded to offer incense to false gods, she raised her hand to Christ and made the Sign of the Cross. When the heathens threatened to bind her hand and foot, she herself hastened to the place of torture as a bride to her wedding feast. Pain had no terror for her—although the fetters slipped from her small hands while even the pagan bystanders were moved to tears.

When the son of the Roman prefect offered to marry her, she replied: "The one to whom I am betrothed is Christ Whom the angels serve." When the executioner, who was to behead her, hesitated, she encouraged him with the words: "Strike, without fear, for the bride does her Spouse an injury if she makes Him wait". The name of "Agnes" means "lamb-life," and hence the lamb is the symbol of the modesty and innocence of the virgin-martyr.

St. Agnes, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 20, 2023 | Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

"Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him... that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons" - Mk 3:13-15

God made many covenants with his people in Old Testament times but the people regularly broke them. He then made a promise that he would make a new covenant with the people which would be everlasting.

Christ is the new and everlasting covenant. As He called twelve closest companions to share His mission with, so He continues to call us, by virtue of our baptism, to be examples of the faith by bringing His healing presence wherever we go.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 19, 2023 | Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

"Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel." - 2 Timothy 1:10

The people throughout the Gospels had come to Jesus to hear him preach and to experience healing. Like them, we too come to Jesus not only hoping to be healed, but more profoundly, hoping to be saved from our sins.

Let us continue to draw closer to Christ and declare: "Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will."

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 18, 2023 | Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

"Stretch out your hand." - Mark 3:5

A simple command that manifested healing for the paralyzed man who encountered Jesus on a Sabbath. In healing him, Jesus emphatically demonstrates the true meaning of the Sabbath. In "stretching out" His arms and hands, God has come heal us and save us. May we too stretch our hands to proclaim the Good News to others through concrete works of love we are invited to make each day, and by so doing encounter and experience God's healing presence in our lives.

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