Begin Your Day with Daily Office Morning Prayers for Positive Transformation

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Ordinary Time
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Phillipians 1:2

Saint and Major Saints' Days
Their sound has gone out into all lands, and their message to the ends of the world. Psalm 19:4

Confession of Sin

Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.

Most merciful God,
we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

The Absolution
Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen

The Invitatory and Psalter
Lord, open our lips. And our mouth shall proclaim your praise
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen Alleluia

Venite Psalm 95:1 to 7
Come, let us sing to the Lord;
   let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving
   and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God,
   and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the caverns of the earth,
   and the heights of the hills are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it,
   and his hands have molded the dry land.

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee,
   and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
    Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

The Antiphon:

? a short sentence recited before or after a psalm to help us understand the readings

The earth is the Lord's for he made it: Come let us adore him.

The Lessons

Psalm 38

⁽¹⁾ To bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!⁽²⁾ For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.⁽³⁾ There is no soundness in my flesh Because of Your anger, Nor any health in my bones Because of my sin.⁽⁴⁾ For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁽⁵⁾ My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.⁽⁶⁾ I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.⁽⁷⁾ For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.⁽⁸⁾ I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

⁽⁹⁾ Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.⁽¹⁰⁾ My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.⁽¹¹⁾ My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague, And my relatives stand afar off.⁽¹²⁾ Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.

⁽¹³⁾ But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.⁽¹⁴⁾ Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth is no response.⁽¹⁵⁾ For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will hear, O Lord my God.⁽¹⁶⁾ For I said, 'Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.'

⁽¹⁷⁾ For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.⁽¹⁸⁾ For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin.⁽¹⁹⁾ But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.⁽²⁰⁾ Those also who render evil for good, They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

⁽²¹⁾ Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me!⁽²²⁾ Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

⁽²⁵⁾ When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,⁽²⁶⁾ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.⁽²⁷⁾ And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.⁽²⁸⁾ And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

⁽²⁹⁾ But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.⁽³⁰⁾ When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice⁽³¹⁾ (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

2 Corinthians Chapter 1

⁽²³⁾ Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.⁽²⁴⁾ Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.⁽¹⁾ But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.⁽²⁾ For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?⁽³⁾ And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.⁽⁴⁾ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

⁽⁵⁾ But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent -- not to be too severe.⁽⁶⁾ This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,⁽⁷⁾ so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.⁽⁸⁾ Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

⁽⁹⁾ For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.⁽¹⁰⁾ Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,⁽¹¹⁾ lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.⁽¹²⁾ Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

⁽¹³⁾ I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.⁽¹⁴⁾ Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.⁽¹⁵⁾ For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.⁽¹⁶⁾ To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

⁽¹⁷⁾ For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Luke Chapter 15

⁽¹⁾ Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him.⁽²⁾ And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, 'This Man receives sinners and eats with them.'⁽¹¹⁾ Then He said: 'A certain man had two sons.⁽¹²⁾ And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood.⁽¹³⁾ And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.⁽¹⁴⁾ But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

⁽¹⁵⁾ Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.⁽¹⁶⁾ And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.⁽¹⁷⁾ But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!⁽¹⁸⁾ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

⁽¹⁹⁾ and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.' '⁽²⁰⁾ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.⁽²¹⁾ And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.'⁽²²⁾ But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

⁽²³⁾ And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;⁽²⁴⁾ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry.⁽²⁵⁾ Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.⁽²⁶⁾ So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

⁽²⁷⁾ And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.'⁽²⁸⁾ But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.⁽²⁹⁾ So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.⁽³⁰⁾ But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.'

⁽³¹⁾ And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.⁽³²⁾ It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.' '

The Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

?A canticle is a hymn, or other Christian song of praise with lyrics taken from biblical texts

The Canticles

Glory to God

Glory to God in the highest,
and peace to his people on earth.

Lord God, heavenly King,
almighty God and Father,
we worship you, we give you thanks,
we praise you for your glory.

Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father,
Lord God, Lamb of God,
you take away the sin of the world:
have mercy on us;
you are seated at the right hand of the Father:
receive our prayer.

For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Prayers

Officiant : The Lord be with you.
People : And with your Spirit.
Officiant : Let us pray.

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.

Suffrages

?a short intercessory prayer

Show us your mercy, O Lord;
And grant us your salvation.
Clothe your ministers with righteousness;
Let your people sing with joy.
Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;
For only in you can we live in safety.
Lord, keep this nation under your care;
And guide us in the way of justice and truth.
Let your way be known upon earth;
Your saving health among all nations.
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;
Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.
Create in us clean hearts, O God;
And sustain us by your Holy Spirit.

Seasonal Collect: Proper 3 The Sunday closest to May 25
Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be peaceably governed by your providence; and that your Church may joyfully serve you in confidence and serenity; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Collect of the Day: Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety to this new day: Preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name. Amen.

Personal Prayers and Reflection

This is a time to pause, consider and listen. Pray for yourself and others.

Closing Prayers

The General Thanksgiving
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.

Conclude with following
Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20,21

This concludes the Daily Morning Prayer
Go in Peace to Love and Serve the Lord

Today's Readings

The Lessons

The Lessons

Psalm 38

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

2 Corinthians Chapter 1

Luke Chapter 15

The Canticles

The Canticles

The Prayers

The Prayers

Personal Prayers and Reflection

DAILY PRAYER

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