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 July 24
COMMEMORATION: Thomas à Kempis
Prayers for strength and confidence, for peace among the nations, for courts of justice.
Hebrew Reading: 2 Samuel 1:1-16 NRSV
Psalm 55
Gospel: Mark 6:1-13 NRSV
Friday Jul 23
Prayers for a sick person, for peace, for Congress.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 31:1-13 NRSV
Psalm: 54
Gospel: Mark 5:21-43 NRSV
Thursday Jul 22
Prayer for recovery of sickness, for the human family, for the President of the United States and all in Civil Authority.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 28:3-20 NRSV
Psalm: 50
Gospel: Mark 5:1-20 NRSV
Wednesday July 21
Prayers for health of body and soul, for all places and predicaments, for our country.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 25:23-44 NRSV
Psalm: 119:49-72
Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 NRSV
Tuesday Jul 20
COMMEMORATION: Belle Harris Bennet
Prayers for recovery of sickness, for guidance, a litany of Thanksgiving.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 25:1-22 NRSV
Psalm: 45
Gospel: Mark 4:21-34 NRSV
Monday July 19
COMMEMORATION: Macrina the Younger
Prayer for those who mourn, for protection, for joy in God’s creation.
Hebrew Reading: 1 Samuel 24:1-22 NRSV
Psalm: 41
Gospel: Mark 4:1-20 NRSV