Praying Advent: Day 13
Praise
Lauds (Traditional hour: dawn/waking up)Laudate, omnes gentes, laudate Dominum! [Sing praises, all people, sing praises to the Lord!]We greet the new day by praising the Creator.
Opening:
Praise the Lord, O my soul:Praise God’s holy name.
Scripture
Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,who teaches you for your own good,who leads you in the way you should go.
O that you had paid attention to my commandments!Then your prosperity would have been like a river,and your success like the waves of the sea;
your offspring would have been like the sand,and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut offor destroyed from before me.
I am the Lord your God,who teaches you for your own good,who leads you in the way you should go.
O that you had paid attention to my commandments!Then your prosperity would have been like a river,and your success like the waves of the sea;
your offspring would have been like the sand,and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut offor destroyed from before me.
-Isaiah 48:17-19 NRSV
Meditation
Turn away from the busyness of the week and turn toward someone who gives you life or to whom you give life. Give thanks.
Prayers
Come, Emmanuel, come dwell with me.Hope of the world and Word of life:Come, Emmanuel, come dwell with me.
Going Out
Praise the Lord, O my soul:Praise God’s holy name.
Prayer form adapted from:1Daily prayer for all seasons. (2014). New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing.