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Daily Prayers

Prayers for the shape of an ordinary day: early morning, evening and Vespers, mealtimes and each day of the week.

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The Gospel of Mark describes one of Jesus’s busiest days: teaching in the synagogue, healing a…

Friday morning feels different. The week’s end is in sight, the weekend is close, and there’s…

St Teresa of Avila, one of the great mystics of the Church, told her nuns not…

Monday has a bad reputation. The weekend is over, the inbox is full, and the week…

For about three thousand years, people have started the day with the Psalms. Jewish families prayed…

For Catholics, Saturday has belonged to the Virgin Mary for about a thousand years. The custom…

By Tuesday the week has its shape. Monday’s surprises have landed, the to-do list is real,…

As the sun goes down, monasteries, cathedrals and ordinary families around the world pray vespers (sometimes…

In a lot of churches, Wednesday night is the second most important hour of the week.…