WEEK 26 - THURSDAY Daytime Prayer Psalter, Thursday Week II
Lord, you have been good to your servant according to your word. Teach me discernment and knowledge for I trust in your commands. Before I was afflicted I strayed but now I keep your word. You are good and your deeds are good; teach me your statutes. Though proud men smear me with lies yet I keep your precepts. Their minds are closed to good but your law is my delight. It was good for me to be afflicted, to learn your statutes. The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold. Glory... Psalm Prayer: Lord, teach us goodness, discipline and wisdom, and these gifts will keep us from becoming hardened by evil, weakened by laziness, or ignorant because of foolishness.
Antiphon: More precious than gold or silver, Lord, is the way of life you teach us. Antiphon 2: I have put my hope in God; I have no fear of man.
Have mercy on me, God, men crush me; they fight me all day long and oppress me. My foes crush me all day long, for many fight proudly against me. When I fear, I will trust in you, in God, whose word I praise. In God I trust, I shall not fear; what can mortal man do to me? All day long they distort my words, all their thought is to harm me. They band together in ambush, track me down and seek my life. You have kept an account of my wanderings; you have kept a record of my tears; are they not written in your book? Then my foes will be put to flight on the day that I call to you. This I know, that God is on my side. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not fear; what can mortal man do to me? I am bound by the vows I have made you. O God, I will offer you praise for you have rescued my soul from death, you kept my feet from stumbling that I may walk in the presence of God and enjoy the light of the living. Glory...
Psalm Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, victim for our sins, you trusted in your Father's protection and kept silent when you were tormented. Give us that same confidence and we will gladly suffer with you and for you, offering the Father our living sacrifice of praise and walking before him in the light of the living. Antiphon: I have put my hope in God; I have no fear of man. Antiphon 3: Your merciful love reaches high as the heavens, Lord.
READING
Lightly I run in the way that you have shown. - For my heart is filled with joy. PRAYER Lord, in midmorning you gave your Holy Spirit to the apostles gathered in prayer. Give us a share in the life and love that your Spirit brings. Grant this through Christ our Lord.
O God, you are good and all goodness flows from you. - O Lord, teach me the ways of holiness. PRAYER All-powerful and ever-living God, with you there is no darkness, from you nothing is hidden. Fill us with the radiance of your light: may we understand the law you have given us and live it with generosity and faith. Grant this through Christ our Lord.
Lord, show me the path I must follow. - Let the Spirit guide me to my true home. PRAYER Lord, help us to follow the example of your Son's patience and endurance. May we face all life's difficulties with confidence and faith. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Let us praise the Lord. - And give him thanks.