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Consecrate your day to the Lord by committing your early mornings to the universal prayer of the Church. The Office of Lauds reminds the Christian that the first act of the day should be praise, and that one's thoughts should be of God before facing the cares of the day. Text of today's prayer is available at http://www.ibreviary.com/ Brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Make it a daily habit. God bless your day.
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Daily scripture readings, psalms, and prayers that follow in the ancient traditions of the Church. Follow along using the session outlines at DivineOffice.org or by using the Divine Office iPhone, iPod, iPad app or Android app. From ancient times the Church has had the custom of celebrating each day the liturgy of the hours. In this way the Church fulfills the Lord’s precept to pray without ceasing, at once offering praise to God the Father and interceding for the salvation of the world. For ...
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 19, 2024 | Solemnity of Pentecost COLLECT PRAYER: O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation, pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth and, with the divine grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill no…
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Lord, open my lips. — And my mouth will proclaim your praise. Ant. Come, let us worship our mighty King and Lord. Psalm 100 Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy. Ant. Come, let us worship our mighty King and Lord. Know that he, the Lord, is God. He made us, we belong to him, we …
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Ribbon Placement: Liturgy of the Hours Vol. III: Ordinary: 654 All from the Psalter: Wednesday, Week III, 1043 Liturgy of the Hours Vol. IV: Ordinary: 618 All from Psalter: Wednesday, Week III, 1007 Christian Prayer: Ordinary: 689 All from the Psalter: Wednesday, Week III, 886 Morning Prayer for Wednesday in Ordinary Time God, come to my assistance…
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Lord, open my lips. — And my mouth will proclaim your praise. Ant. Come, let us worship God who brings the world and its wonders from darkness into light. Psalm 100 Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy. Ant. Come, let us worship God who brings the world and its wonders from dark…
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Ribbon Placement: Liturgy of the Hours Vol. III: Ordinary: 654 All from the Psalter: Saturday, Week III, 1107 Liturgy of the Hours Vol. IV: Ordinary: 618 All from the Psalter: Saturday, Week III, 1071 Christian Prayer (single volume) Ordinary: 689 All from the Psalter: Saturday, Week III, 916 Morning Prayer for Saturday in Ordinary Time God, come t…
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Lord, open my lips. — And my mouth will proclaim your praise. Ant. Come, let us sing joyful songs to the Lord. Psalm 24 The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness, the world and all its peoples. It is he who set it on the seas; on the waters he made it firm. Ant. Come, let us sing joyful songs to the Lord. Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord? Wh…
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Ribbon Placement: Liturgy of the Hours Vol. III: Ordinary: 689 All from the Psalter: Monday, Week IV, 1147 Liturgy of the Hours Vol. IV: Ordinary: 618 All from the Psalter: Monday, Week IV, 1111 Christian Prayer (single volume) Ordinary: 689 All from the Psalter: Monday, Week IV, 937 Morning Prayer for Monday in Ordinary Time God, come to my assist…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 18, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The disciple of Christ must not only keep the faith and live on it, but also profess it, confidently bear witness to it, and spread it: ‘All however must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross, amidst the persecutions which the Church nev…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 17, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “Love is not a matter of miracles but simply of virtue: ‘Love is the fulfilling of the Law’ (Rom 13:10). Love each other and thus you will be like the apostles, you will be in first place” (Saint John Chrysostom) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you ar…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 16, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The martyr’s fidelity event to the death and the proclamation of the Gospel to all people are rooted in God’s love and in the witness we must bear in our life to this Love” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and sub…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 15, 2024 | 7th Week of Eastertide “The whole community of the faithful, once begotten in the baptismal font, was crucified with Christ in the passion, raised up with him in the resurrection, so too it is born with him in this Nativity” (Saint Leo the Great) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wher…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 14, 2024 | Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle “The Christian vocation is this: to remain in the love of God. The love relationship between Him and the Father is the love relationship between Him and us.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 13, 2024 |7th Week of Eastertide “(...) The virtue of fortitude enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions. It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause. (...) ‘In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the wo…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 12, 2024 |7th Week of Eastertide COLLECT PRAYER Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before us in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, w…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 11, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “After the great discovery of Jesus Christ entering into the terrain of faith, we also often find that life is dark, hard, difficult — a sowing in tears — but we are certain that in the end, the light of Christ truly gives us the great harvest” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church i…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 10, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “Difficulties can remove human joy from anything. But the joy that the Lord gives us, that makes us rejoice, raises us in the hope of finding it, even in the darkest moments” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and sub…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 09, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “We cannot discover life by being sad, bereft of hope. Let us not stay imprisoned within ourselves, but let us break open our sealed tombs to the Lord so that he may enter and grant us life. Christ wants to come and take us by the hand to bring us out of our anguish.” (Pope Francis) Joi…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 08, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs them and guides them into all truth (cf. Jn 16:13)” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 91) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lau…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 07, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “The Holy Spirit makes us sons and daughters of God. He involves us in the same responsibility that God has for his world, for the whole of humanity. He teaches us to look at the world, others and ourselves with God's eyes” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 06, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide “Jesus Christ, having entered the sanctuary of heaven once and for all, intercedes constantly for us as the mediator who assures us of the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 667) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherev…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 05, 2024 |6th Week of Eastertide COLLECT PRAYER Grant, almighty God, that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy, which we keep in honor of the risen Lord, and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold to in what we do. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with y…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 04, 2024 |5th Week of Eastertide “If we seek to deepen our relationship with the Father, then we should not be surprised to find that we are misunderstood, opposed, or even persecuted for our beliefs” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subs…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 03, 2024 |Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles “Philip teaches us to let ourselves be conquered by Jesus, to be with Him and also to invite others to share this indispensable company; and, seeing, finding God, to find true life.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever yo…
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Morning Prayer -THURSDAY, 02 May 2024 |Memorial of St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 02, 2024 |Memorial of St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church “God can transform into love even the burdensome and oppressive aspects of our lives. It is important that we ‘abide’ in Christ, in the vine.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share an…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - May 02, 2024 |5th Week of Eastertide "I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing."- John 15:5 “We are the branches. Branches are not self-sufficient, but depend totally on the vine, which is the source of their existence” (Pope Francis…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 30, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter “Peace is a true gift of the presence of Jesus in the midst of his Church. Lord, guard your Church in tribulation, so she does not lose faith, so she does not lose hope” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe her…
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Morning Prayer -MONDAY, 29 April 2024 |Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 29, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter “Let your door stand open to receive him, unlock your soul to him, offer him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace” (Saint Ambrose) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. List…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 28, 2024 |Fifth Week of Easter COLLECT PRAYER Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 27, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “The Lord’s invitation to encounter him is made to each of you, in whatever place or situation you find yourself. It suffices to have an openness to letting him encounter you unfailingly each day.” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Li…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 26, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “If you love Him, follow Him. Do you ask by what way?: ‘I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life’. Remaining with the Father, the truth and life; putting on flesh, He became the way” (Saint Augustine) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 25, 2024 |Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist “We are all called to be living writers of the Gospel, bearers of the Good News to every man and woman of today.” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbv…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 24, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “We need this light from on high if we are to respond in a way worthy of the vocation we have received. For the Church, to be missionary means to receive God’s light and then to reflect it” (Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, sh…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 23, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Mt 16:16). On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 424) Join the un…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 22, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter “God calls each one by name. Everyone's name is sacred. The name is the icon of the person. It demands respect as a sign of the dignity of the one who bears it” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2158) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Liste…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 21, 2024 |Fourth Week of Easter COLLECT PRAYER Be near, O Lord, to those who plead before you, and look kindly on those who place their hope in your mercy, that, cleansed from the stain of their sins, they may persevere in holy living and be made full heirs of your promise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, wh…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 20, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Eucharistic Bread, medicine of immortality, antidote to death.” (Saint Ignatius of Antioch) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://podcasts.apple.com/us/po…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 19, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you’ (Jn 6:53).” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 1384) Join the universal …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 18, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Let us live the Eucharist with the spirit of faith, of prayer, of forgiveness, of repentance, of communal joy, of concern for the needy, in the certainty that the Lord will fulfil what he has promised us: eternal life.” (Pope Francis) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 17, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Only the one who is God sees God—Jesus. He truly speaks from his vision of the Father, from unceasing dialogue with the Father, a dialogue that is his life.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:http…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 16, 2024 | 3rd Week of Easter “It is so that these impious ones wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify their yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring them to their desired end, not by exhaustion but by attainment.” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux Join the universal Church in praying the Off…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 15, 2024 |Third Week of Easter “Holy Communion is for us the pledge of eternal life so that it guarantees Heaven to us. It is a pledge sent from Heaven to tell us that it will one day be our dwelling place.” (Saint John Vianney) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 14, 2024 |Third Sunday of Easter Collect Prayer May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 13, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the risen Christ who is with us always (Mt 28:20), no matter what tempests may arise. Our time is in the hands of God.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nº 2743) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of La…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 12, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “Jesus was not relying on an adequate supply of material goods (…). What human reason did not dare to hope became a reality with Jesus thanks to a young boy’s generous heart.” (Saint John Paul II) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 11, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and satisfying than God’s majesty? The radiance of the divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe.” (Saint Basil the Great) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of La…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 10, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved (Is 62:4-5); his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 09, 2024 |Second Week of Easter “The baptismal water is consecrated by a prayer of epiclesis (either at this moment or at the Easter Vigil). The Church asks God that through his Son the power of the Holy Spirit may be sent upon the water, so that those who will be baptized in it may be ‘born of water and the Spirit’ …
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 08, 2024 |Second Week of Easter "The angel leaves, the mission remains, and along with it the inner closeness to God matures.” (Benedict XVI) Join the universal Church in praying the Office of Lauds, wherever you are. Listen, share and subscribe here:https://open.spotify.com/show/5Drix5cHFQEFXbvmGAsqsR https://podcas…
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LISTEN | Morning Prayer - April 07, 2024 |Divine Mercy Sunday COLLECT PRAYER: God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit t…
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