Find Inner Peace: Start Your Day with Powerful Traditional Morning Prayers

Ordinary Time
The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. John 4:23

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

ⓘ Venite is the first word In Psalm 95 , Venite exultemus Domino. O COME, let us sing unto the LORD

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 mercy of the Lord is everlasting: Come let us adore him.

The Lessons

Psalm 101

⁽¹⁾ I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.⁽²⁾ I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.⁽³⁾ I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.⁽⁴⁾ A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness.

⁽⁵⁾ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.⁽⁶⁾ My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He shall serve me.⁽⁷⁾ He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.⁽⁸⁾ Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.

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.

Psalm 109

⁽¹⁾ Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!⁽²⁾ For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.⁽³⁾ They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.⁽⁴⁾ In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.

⁽⁵⁾ Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.⁽⁶⁾ Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.⁽⁷⁾ When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.⁽⁸⁾ Let his days be few, And let another take his office.

⁽⁹⁾ Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.⁽¹⁰⁾ Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.⁽¹¹⁾ Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.⁽¹²⁾ Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

⁽¹³⁾ Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.⁽¹⁴⁾ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.⁽¹⁵⁾ Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;⁽¹⁶⁾ Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.

⁽¹⁷⁾ As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.⁽¹⁸⁾ As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.⁽¹⁹⁾ Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.⁽²⁰⁾ Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.

⁽²¹⁾ But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.⁽²²⁾ For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.⁽²³⁾ I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.⁽²⁴⁾ My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

⁽²⁵⁾ I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads.⁽²⁶⁾ Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,⁽²⁷⁾ That they may know that this is Your hand -- That You, LORD, have done it!⁽²⁸⁾ Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.

⁽²⁹⁾ Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.⁽³⁰⁾ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.

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.

1 Maccabees Chapter 3

⁽⁴²⁾ Judas and his brothers saw that their situation was getting more and more difficult, with foreign armies camped within their own borders. They also learned that the king had commanded the complete destruction of the people.⁽⁴³⁾ So they determined to rebuild their ruined nation and fight for their country and the Temple.⁽⁴⁴⁾ Then the whole community came together to prepare for war and to pray for God's mercy.⁽⁴⁵⁾ Jerusalem was as empty as a wilderness; no citizens left or entered the city. The holy Temple was profaned by foreigners, and Gentiles camped in the city's fort; so joy departed from the people of Israel, and the sound of music was heard no more.

⁽⁴⁶⁾ Then Judas and his men assembled and marched to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because the people of Israel had previously had a place of worship there.⁽⁴⁷⁾ In deep mourning, they fasted all that day, put on sackcloth, threw ashes on their heads, and tore their clothes.⁽⁴⁸⁾ The Gentiles would have consulted their idols in such a situation, but the Israelites unrolled the book of the Law to search for God's guidance.⁽⁴⁹⁾ They brought the priests' robes, the offerings of the first grain, and the tithes, and then they brought in some Nazirites who had completed their vows.

⁽⁵⁰⁾ The whole community prayed, 'Lord, what shall we do with these things' Where shall we take them,⁽⁵¹⁾ now that your holy Temple has been trampled and profaned by Gentiles, and your priests mourn in disgrace'⁽⁵²⁾ The Gentiles have come to attack and destroy us. You know what they plan to do!⁽⁵³⁾ If you don't help us, how can we stand up against them?

⁽⁵⁴⁾ Then they blew trumpets and shouted loudly.⁽⁵⁵⁾ After that, Judas divided his men into groups of ten, fifty, a hundred, and a thousand, placing officers in charge of each group.⁽⁵⁶⁾ Then, in obedience to the Law, he sent home everyone who had recently been married, built a house, or planted a vineyard, as well as anyone who was afraid.⁽⁵⁷⁾ Finally, the army marched out and took up positions south of Emmaus,

⁽⁵⁸⁾ where Judas said to them: 'Prepare yourselves for battle and be courageous! Be ready early tomorrow morning to fight these Gentiles who have joined forces to attack us and destroy us and our Temple.⁽⁵⁹⁾ It is better for us to die fighting than to stand idly by and watch the destruction of our nation and our Temple.⁽⁶⁰⁾ But the Lord will do what he pleases.'

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Revelation Chapter 21

⁽⁹⁾ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, 'Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.'⁽¹⁰⁾ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,⁽¹¹⁾ having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.⁽¹²⁾ Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

⁽¹³⁾ three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.⁽¹⁴⁾ Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.⁽¹⁵⁾ And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.⁽¹⁶⁾ The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

⁽¹⁷⁾ Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.⁽¹⁸⁾ The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.⁽¹⁹⁾ The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,⁽²⁰⁾ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

⁽²¹⁾ The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Matthew Chapter 17

⁽²²⁾ Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,⁽²³⁾ and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.' And they were exceedingly sorrowful.⁽²⁴⁾ When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, 'Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?'⁽²⁵⁾ He said, 'Yes.' And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, 'What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?'

⁽²⁶⁾ Peter said to Him, 'From strangers.' Jesus said to him, 'Then the sons are free.⁽²⁷⁾ Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.'

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 28 The Sunday closest to November 16
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; 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.

Today's Readings

The Lessons

The Lessons

Psalm 101

Psalm 109

1 Maccabees Chapter 3

Revelation Chapter 21

Matthew Chapter 17

The Canticles

The Canticles

The Prayers

The Prayers

Personal Prayers and Reflection

DAILY PRAYER

DAILY PRAYER