Morning Prayer in community is coming to St. Monica!

We have been training a group of Morning Prayer leaders to help us as a community to greet the day with morning praise – prayer with the Psalms of David from the Hebrew Scriptures, petitions and prayer.

In morning prayer, we lift up our community and the entire church as well as consecrate our day to the Lord.

Daily at 7:15 a.m | Zoom

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Morning Prayer in community is coming to St. Monica!

 

We have been training a group of Morning Prayer leaders to help us as a community to greet the day with morning praise – prayer with the Psalms of David from the Hebrew Scriptures, petitions and prayer.

 

In morning prayer, we lift up our community and the entire church as well as consecrate our day to the Lord.

 

Daily at 7:15 a.m | Zoom

*You only need to register once for an active link to sign on for the daily zoom.

 

Click Here to Register for Morning Prayer!

 

About Liturgy of the Hours

The Prayer of the Church

The Church offers many different types of prayer: liturgical prayer, devotional prayer, meditative prayer, personal piety devotions.

 

The Liturgy of the Hours is one of the official Liturgies of the Church and consists in Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer daily – centered on praying the Psalms, hearing a short word of another Scripture passage, some intercessions for the needs of the Church, our local needs, and needs of the world, the Canticle of Mary (The Magnificat), The Lord’s Prayer and conclusion. What is the benefit?

Sometimes when we don’t have the words to pray, or can’t find the words we need to express to God our sorrow, rage, anger, love, thanks, joy, sadness, overwhelming gratitude, love or love lost … the Psalms can help us find the visceral language with which we can be Honest To God: series of lectures last year on the Psalms provided our community with more background on their composition, their purpose, their use throughout the Church’s history.

 

The early Christian Church prayed the Psalms, as they prayed the prayers that Jesus prayed and knew well as a good Jew. On the Cross, the words of Psalm 22 were on his lips, My God, My God, why have you forsaken me. In the hearts and minds of the early Christians, these were the songs of Israel that they knew and continued to pray. And in another place, Jesus is the stone which the builders rejected, now become the cornerstone/keystone.

 

The praying of the Psalms – singing them --  developed into a ritual of prayer, morning, evening and used at the Eucharistic celebrations and thus became the backbone of the Church’s Liturgical Prayer.

 

Easter 2021

 

In morning prayer, we lift up our community and the entire church as we consecrate our day to the Lord. During this most holiest of weeks, we turn inward to prayer, as we await in hope for the Resurrection and Easter celebration. 

 

Thank you so much to our families who guide us through Morning Prayer during Triduum: The Socha Family, Jill & Grant Jensen, and The Forgione Family!