PRAYER FOR THIS MORNING for MONDAY, JUNE 15
Prayer for the Morning
God is the giver of all good gifts:
come, let us adore!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia!
HYMN
Eternal maker of all things,
You govern everything as King:
The sea, the sun, the heav’nly vault,
And pay each one for good or fault.
To ruination you condemn
The arrogant and all like them;
They shall receive what is their due,
But help us, Lord, who call on you.
With ever-growing confidence
We pray for heavenly defense:
Our champions in armies send,
To us, through them, may grace extend.
O may they visit, cleanse, inspire,
And gently teach us to aspire
To noble paths of good and right,
And may they end the demons’ might.
O angels’ Glory, safely lead;
By paths secure make us proceed.
Give us these guards, your gifts of grace,
That we may come to see your face.
PSALM 1
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then. (Dt 30:19)
Beside the river that watered the garden of Eden, God offered the first couple the choice between
obedient love and self-seeking death. The choice remains ours to make each day.
Happy indeed is the man
who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
nor sits in the company of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the Lord
and who ponders his law day and night.
He is like a tree that is planted
beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season
and whose leaves shall never fade;
and all that he does shall prosper.
Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they like winnowed chaff
shall be driven away by the wind.
When the wicked are judged they shall not stand,
nor find room among those who are just;
for the Lord guards the way of the just
but the way of the wicked leads to doom.
Glory to the Father….
Word of God (Sirach 15:14-17)
When God, in the beginning, created man,/ he made him subject to his own free choice./ If you choose you can keep the commandments;/ it is loyalty to do his will./ There are set before you fire and water;/ to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand./ Before man are life and death,/ whichever he chooses shall be given him.
Choose life!
CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. (Jn 15:12)
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.
You, my child, shall be called the prophet
of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
to give his people knowledge of salvation
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness
and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Glory to the Father…
INTERCESSIONS
To God, the giver of life, we pray:
R/Teach us to do your will, O Lord.
At home and at work:
– open our eyes to the demands of love. R/
In business and pleasure:
– grant us the wisdom to choose as you would have us choose. R/
In making decisions for the unborn, the aging, the dying:
– strengthen us to choose life. R/
Personal intentions
Our Father….
O Lord our God, you have replanted on our earth the garden lost in Eden, and you have sent a new Gardener to till the soil plowed by the wood of the cross. He who is both the farmer and the seed has watered the earth with his life’s blood, shed for our redemption. Make us grow in his likeness by the power of his word dwelling in our hearts. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
