Praying the Lauds - Your Daily Christian Morning Prayer

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 7, 2023 | Saturday of the Christmas Season

"Do whatever he tells you." - John 2:5

With listening comes obedience. In the midst of an impending challenge when the wine ran short in a wedding, Mary intercedes and exhorts the servers to obey what Jesus would ask them to do. Let us ask the intercession of our Blessed Mother that we too may listen and heed God's invitations each day. When we do whatever he tells us, we will receive much more than we could ever hope for.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 6, 2023 | Friday of the Christmas Season

"The heavens were opened and the voice of the Father thundered: This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." - Mk 9:6

Jesus has brought about a new era of grace and truth and has called each one of us to follow Him wherever He leads. The Father's Beloved Son constantly invites us to a deeper friendship with Him by listening to His Word through prayer and the Sacraments and by doing His will.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 5, 2023 | Thursday of the Christmas Season

"In the beginning and before all ages, the Word was God and he humbled himself to be born the Savior of the world." - John 1:1

Through the birth of His only begotten Son, God put forth the work of redemption. We pray that He may grant us firmness in faith that we may attain the glorious prize He has promised in Christ Jesus.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 4, 2023 | Wednesday of the Christmas Season

"Rabbi, where are you staying? (Jesus) said to them, "Come and see." - John 1:38-39

Jesus invites his disciples to a new life of grace in Him. He has some new mission for us to daily fulfill and He promises to give us all we need to live it. Say "Yes" to the call He gives you and you will see incredible things ahead of your life. 

May Jesus help us to daily answer the glorious vocation to the life of grace we have been given.

Jesus, I trust in you

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 3, 2023 | Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus

"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name through all the earth!" - Ps. 8:2

The Church celebrates today the Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. The name of Jesus means Savior; it had been shown in a dream to Joseph together with its meaning and to Our Lady at the annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel.

Devotion to the Holy Name is deeply rooted in the Sacred Scriptures, especially in the Acts of the Apostles. It was promoted in a special manner by St. Bernard, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. John Capistrano and by the Franciscan Order. It was extended to the whole Church in 1727 during the pontificate of Innocent XIII. The month of January has traditionally been dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus.

Most Holy Name of Jesus, have mercy on us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 2, 2023 | Memorial of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church

"Let the peoples recount the wisdom of the Saints, and let the Church proclaim their praise. Their names will live on and on." - Entrance antiphon

Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Basil the Great (329-379) and St. Gregory Nazianzen (330-390), bishops and doctors. This is the Ninth Day of the Christmas season.

St. Basil was a brilliant student born of a Christian family in Caesarea, Cappadocia (Turkey). For some years, he followed the monastic way of life. He vigorously fought the Arian heresy. He became Bishop of Caesarea in 370. The monks of the Eastern Church today still follow the monastic rules which he set down.

St. Gregory was also from Cappadocia. A friend of Basil, he too followed the monastic way of life for some years. He was ordained priest and in 381 became Bishop of Constantinople. It was during this period when the Arian heresy was at its height. He was called "The Theologian" because of his great learning and talent for oratory.

Sts. Basil and Gregory, pray for us!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - January 1, 2023 | Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God | World Day of Prayer for Peace 

"May God bless us in his mercy." - Psalm 67

God wants to bless his people. This is His action and He is always acting to bring us into union with himself. We make it possible for him to bless us by our response to Him as Mary did when she gave her fiat.

As you begin the new year, how can you imitate Mary's perfect response to God's saving action in your life?

"May the Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace!"

A Blessed and grace-filled New Year to you and your family!

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 31, 2022 | Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas

"And the Word became flesh." - John 1:14

Christmas celebrates the Word becoming flesh, God pitching his tent among us. In the Gospel of John, there is no question about the divinity of Jesus or the mystery of the Incarnation. However, not everyone will accept Jesus. To accept him means, as he himself tells us,  that we pick up our cross and follow him in his way.

As we end the calendar year 2022, we thank God for incarnating His extravagant for us in Jesus Christ. May we constantly submit ourselves to the transformation he desires in us so that we can truly be a gift of his loving presence to those we encounter especially to the last, the least and the lost.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 30, 2022 | Feast of the Holy Family

"The shepherds went in haste, and found Mary and Joseph and the Infant lying in a manger." - Luke 2:16

On this Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Scripture tells us practically nothing about the first years and the boyhood of the Child Jesus. All we know are the facts of the sojourn in Egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the incidents that occurred when the twelve-year-old boy accompanied his parents to Jerusalem. In her liturgy, the Church hurries over this period of Christ's life with equal brevity. The general breakdown of the family, however, at the end of the past century and at the beginning of our own, prompted the popes, especially the far-sighted Leo XIII, to promote the observance of this feast with the hope that it might instill into Christian families something of the faithful love and the devoted attachment that characterize the family of Nazareth. The primary purpose of the Church in instituting and promoting this feast is to present the Holy Family as the model and exemplar of all Christian families. (Catholicculture.org)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, guide and protect all families in the world.

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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 29, 2022 | Fifth Day Within the Octave of Christmas

"My eyes have seen your salvation..." - Luke 2:30

On this Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas, the Church invites us to reflect on the Presentation of Jesus in the temple, which marks the manifestation of the Child Jesus not just to the Jewish community but also, symbolically, to the whole of humanity.

As Simeon waited for God's revelation to take place for Israel, may we too allow the Christ Child to enkindle the fire of hope in our hearts knowing that the long-awaited Messiah, our Savior, has come for us.

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