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 Sept 18

COMMEMORATION: Dag Hammarskjöld

Prayers for strength and confidence, for cities, for conservation of natural resources.

Psalm: 75

Hebrew Reading:   1 Corinthians 4:1-7 NRSV

Gospel:  Matthew 3:13-17 NRSV

Friday Sep 17

COMMEMORATION: Hildegard of Bingen

Prayers for a sick person, for right use of God’s gifts, for the care of children

Psalm: 60:1-18

Hebrew Reading:   1 Corinthians 3:16-23 NRSV

Gospel:  Matthew 5:11-16 NRSV

Thursday Sept 16

Prayer for recovery of sickness, for families, for correctional institutions. 

Psalm: 70  

New Testament Reading:  1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15 NRSV

Gospel:  Matthew 5:1-10 NRSV

Wednesday Sep 15

Prayers for health of body and soul, for the oppressed, for the future of the human race.

Psalm: 72

New Testament Reading:  1 Corinthians 2:1-13   NRSV

Gospel:  Matthew 4:18-25   NRSV

Tuesday Sept 14

Commemoration:  Holy Cross Day

Prayers for recovery of sickness, for the poor and neglected, for rain

Psalm: 62

New Testament Reading:  1 Corinthians 1:12-20 NRSV

Gospel:  Matthew 4:12-17 NRSV 

Monday Sep 13

COMMEMORATION:  Anthony Bewley

Prayer for those who mourn, for towns and rural areas, for the harvest of lands and waters.

Hebrew Reading:    1 Kings 21:1-16   NRSV    

Psalm: 57   NRSV  

Gospel:  Matt. 4:1-11   NRSV