Prayers from The Divine Hours, compiled by Phyllis Tickle supplemented with a few other meditations and prayers.
The Call to Prayer
Wake up, my spirit, awake lute and harp; I myself will waken the dawn. Psalm 57:8
The Request for Presence
You are the Lord, do not withhold your compassion from me, let your love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever. Psalm 40:12
The Sarum Prayer
God be in my head—and in my understanding
God be in my eyes—and in my looking
God be in my mouth—and in my speaking
God be in my heart—and in my thinking
God be at my end—and at my departing
Light Meditation
Picture the quality of a clear, yellow sunlight, such as you might notice in the early morning, shining through the leaves of a nearby stand of trees. Then, over the course of a full minute, imagine that same quality of sunlight streaming into your body from just above the head, steadily filling the body with light from the soles of the feet, up through the legs, filling the chest, the arms, shoulders, neck and head with light.
The Greeting
My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart, I will sing and make melody. Psalm 57:7
The Refrain for the Morning Lessons
Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous stumble. Psalm 55:24
A Reading
The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’ The Lord replied, ‘If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.’ Luke 17: 5–6
The Refrain
Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous stumble.
The Morning Psalm
For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all his ways.
They shall you in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the adder, you shall trample the young lion and the serpent under foot. Psalm 91: 11–13
The Refrain
Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous stumble.
The Small Verse
My soul thirsts for the strong, living God and all that is within me cries out to him.
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Mother in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kin_dom come, your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
Amen
Prayer for Loved Ones
Over the next minute simply name your loved ones, calling each to mind in love, lifting each in the embrace of remembered love, to the God who is the source of all being.
The Prayer Appointed for the Week
O God, you have taught me to keep all your commandments by loving you and my neighbor. Grant me the grace of your Holy Spirit, that I may be devoted to you with my whole heart, and united to others with pure affection, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen
The Concluding Prayer of the Church
Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this new day. Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Benediction
Go in peace, wash your hands, love your neighbors—you are not alone.