Welcome, where best intentions to pray meet commitment.
Here you will find a structure of the daily office with a variety of morning prayers to pray throughout the week. Experience the benefits of a disciplined prayer time with videos, Monday through Saturday, posted each week.
If being committed to prayer describes you, be sure to let us know that you, too, have moved from intention to commitment and are praying with us.
Please right-click on the date to pull up a pdf in a different tab if you would like to read along.
A video version of morning prayer is available on Facebook, and is linked to YouTube below.
Audio and video versions are available at 12:00am on given date.
Saturday June 26
Prayers for strength and confidence, for monastic orders and vocations, for agriculture.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 9:15-10:1 CEV
Gospel: Luke 22:39-51 CEV
Friday Jun 25
Prayers for a sick person, for in times of conflict, for the congregation.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 9:1-14 CEB
Gospel: Luke 22:31-38 CEB
Thursday Jun 24
Prayer for recovery of sickness, for social justice, for local church affiliation (Greater NJ Annual Conference).
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 8:1-22 CEV
Gospel: Luke 22:24-30 CEV
Wednesday June 23
Prayers for health of body and soul, for clergy and people, for renewal of life.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 7:2-17 CEV
Gospel: Luke 22:14-23 CEV
Tuesday Jun 22
COMMEMORATION: Alban
Prayers for recovery of sickness, for those in the Armed Forces, for the mission of the church.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 6:1-16 CEV
Gospel: Luke 21:37-22:13 CEV
Monday June 21
Commemoration: Thomas Bowman Stephenson
Prayer for those who mourn, for local government, for the church.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 5:1-12 CEB
Gospel: Luke 21:29-36 CEB