{"id":4413,"date":"2020-05-21T21:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/?page_id=4413"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:15:54","slug":"morning-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/morning-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"83\" class=\"wp-image-434\" style=\"width: 200px;\" alt=\"Daily Prayer\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a2.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a2.png 761w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a2-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Morning Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prayerfulness is deeply a part of you: in body, mind and spirit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start with:<br><\/strong>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Be still. Take a moment to reflect and find quietness.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Recall how the Lord loves you, and is present with you; inviting you to prayer. Recall times you needed to be better. Recall the blessings you have in your life. Bring into your thoughts loved ones, family, friends; anyone who needs your kindness, forgiveness, love.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Offer yourself, your life, your prayer&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am sorry<\/strong><br>Lord, you know I am not perfect.<br>I am so sorry for the times I have not be your loving child,<br>and offended your goodness.<br>I am sorry for the times I have upset or hurt others. <br>Forgive me Lord. Help me to become perfect <br>\u2013 perfect in loving you and perfect in<br>loving all those around me.<br>I ask you this in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To you I dedicate my day and my life<\/strong><br>My Lord, I give to you<br>every moment of my day;<br>every moment of my life.<br>I am filled with such joy knowing you watch ever me,<br>blessing every beat of my heart and every breath I take.<br>Give me the privilege to serve you this day, and<br>please accept my dedication to you of all that I am.<br>I ask you this in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer of Love<\/strong><br>Heavenly Father, I thank you for your great love,<br>that you have revealed to me in your Son, Jesus,<br>and have poured into my heart by the Holy Spirit.<br>Be close to me Father, and help me.<br>I ask you this in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scripture readings: <\/strong><em>you could chose one or more passages to read each day.<\/em><br><em>Follow and reflect on the Sunday Scripture readings, \u2026&nbsp;<strong>Sunday readings <a href=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/daily-reading\/\">page\u2026<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Or choose and reflect one or all of the following readings:<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<style>\n    #WeekDay { text-align: left; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; color: #0033CC; margin-bottom: 1em; }\n    .section-title { font-weight: bold; color: #0033CC; margin-top: 0.5em; }\n    .section-subtitle { font-style: italic; color: #555; margin-bottom: 0.5em; }\n    .section-text { text-align: justify; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n  <div id=\"WeekDay\"><\/div>\n\n  <div id=\"Title1\" class=\"section-title\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"Title1.1\" class=\"section-subtitle\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"main-text1\" class=\"section-text\"><\/div>\n\n  <div id=\"Title2\" class=\"section-title\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"Title2.1\" class=\"section-subtitle\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"main-text2\" class=\"section-text\"><\/div>\n\n  <div id=\"Title3\" class=\"section-title\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"Title3.1\" class=\"section-subtitle\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"main-text3\" class=\"section-text\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n  <script>\n    const weekDays = [\"Sunday\", \"Monday\", \"Tuesday\", \"Wednesday\", \"Thursday\", \"Friday\", \"Saturday\"];\n\n    const dailyContent = [\n\n    \/\/ Sunday\n      {\n        title1: \"The letter of St Paul  to the Romans 8:31-39\", subtitle1: \"A hymn to God\u2019s love\", text1: \"With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! He not only died for us \u2013 he rose from the dead, and there at God\u2019s right hand he stands and pleads for us. Nothing therefore can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are threatened or even attacked. \u2013 As scripture promised: For your sake we are being massacred daily, and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us. For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, no angel, no prince, nothing that exists, nothing still to come, not any power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord.\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 120(121)\", subtitle2: \"God the protector. A pilgrimage song\", text2: \"I lift up my eyes to the mountains:\\nfrom where shall come my help?\\nMy help shall come from the Lord\\nwho made heaven and earth.\\n\\nMay he never allow you to stumble!\\nLet him sleep not, your guard.\\nNo, he sleeps not nor slumbers,\\nIsrael\u2019s guard.\\n\\nThe Lord is your guard and your shade;\\nat your right side he stands.\\nBy day the sun shall not smite you\\nnor the moon in the night.\\n\\nThe Lord will guard you from evil,\\nhe will guard your soul.\\nThe Lord will guard your going and coming\\nboth now and for ever.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 14:23-27\", subtitle3: \"We shall come to him and make ouw home with him.\", text3: \"Jesus said:\\n\u2018If anyone loves me he will keep my word,\\nand my Father will love him,\\nand we shall come to him and make our home with him.\\nThose who do not love me do not keep my words.\\nAnd my word is not my own:\\nit is the word of the one who sent me.\\nI have said these things to you while still with you;\\nbut the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,\\nwhom the Father will send in my name,\\nwill teach you everything\\nand remind you of all I have said to you.\\nPeace I bequeath to you,\\nmy own peace I give you,\\na peace the world cannot give,\\nthis is my gift to you\u2019.\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Monday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Prophet Isaiah 2:1-5\", subtitle1: \"Everlasting peace\", text1: \"The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.\\nIn the days to come\\nThe mountain of the Temple of the Lord (Yahwah)\\nshall tower above the mountains\\nand be lifted higher than the hills.\\nAll the nations will steam to it,\\npeoples without number will come to it; and they will say: \\n\u201cCome, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord (Yahweh),\\nto the Temple of the God of Jacob\\nthat he may teach us his ways\\nso that we may walk in his paths;\\nsince the Law will go out from Zion,\\nand the oracle of Yahweh from Jerusalem.\u201d\\n\\nHe will wield authority over the nations\\nand adjudicate between many peoples;\\nthese will hammer their swords into plowshares,\\ntheir spears into sickles.\\nNation will not lift sword against nation,\\nthere will be no more training for war.\\nO House of Jacob, come,\\nlet us walk in the light of Lord (Yahweh).\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 28(29)\", subtitle2: \"God\u2019s power seen in the storm\", text2: \"O give the Lord you sons of God,\\ngive the Lord glory and power;\\ngive the Lord the glory of his name.\\nAdore the Lord in his holy court.\\n\\nThe Lord\u2019s voice resounding on the waters,\\nthe Lord on the immensity of waters;\\nthe voice of the Lord, full of power,\\nthe voice of the Lord, full of splendour.\\n\\nThe Lord\u2019s voice shattering the cedars,\\nthe Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon;\\nhe makes Lebanon leap like a calf\\nand Sirion like a young wild ox.\\n\\n(The Lord\u2019s voice flashes flames of fire.)\\nThe Lord\u2019s voice shaking the wilderness,\\nthe Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh;\\nthe Lord\u2019s voice rending the oak tree\\nand stripping the forest bare.\\n\\nThe God of glory thunders.\\nIn his temple they all cry: \u2018Glory!\u2019\\nThe Lord sat enthroned over the flood;\\nthe Lord sits as king for ever.\\n\\nThe Lord will give strength to his people,\\nthe Lord will bless his people with peace.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 6:28-33\", subtitle3: \"I am the bread of life.\", text3: \"Then they said to him, \u2018What must we do if we are to do the works that God wants?\u2019 Jesus gave them this answer, \u2018This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent\u2019. So they said, \u2018What Sign will you give to show us that we should believe in you? What work will you do? Our fathers had manna to eat in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat\u2019.\\n\\nJesus answered:\\n\u2018I tell you most solemnly,\\nit was not Moses who gave you bread from heaven,\\nit is my Father who gives you the bread from heaven,\\nthe true bread;\\nfor the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven\\nand gives life to the world\u2019.\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Tuesday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Prophet Isaiah 55:1-3\", subtitle1: \"The food of the poor\", text1: \"Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty;\\nthough you have no money, come!\\nBuy corn without money, and eat,\\nand, at no cost, wine and milk.\\nWhy spend money on what is not bread,\\nyour wages on what fails to satisfy?\\nListen, listen to me, and you will have good things to eat\\nand rich food to enjoy.\\nPay attention, come to me;\\nlisten, and your soul will live.\",\n        title2: \"Psalm 42(43)\", subtitle2: \"Longing for God\u2019s dwelling place\", text2: \"Defend me, O God, and plead my cause\\nagainst a godless nation.\\nFrom deceitful and cunning men\\nrescue me, O God.\\n\\nSince you, O God, are my stronghold,\\nwhy have you rejected me?\\nWhy do I go mourning\\noppressed by the foe?\\n\\nO send forth your light and your truth;\\nlet these be my guide.\\nLet them bring me to your holy mountain,\\nto the place where you dwell.\\n\\nAnd I will come to the altar of God,\\nthe God of my joy.\\nMy redeemer, I will thank you on the harp,\\nO God, my God.\\n\\nWhy are you cast down my soul,\\nwhy groan within me?\\nHope in God; I will praise him still,\\nmy saviour and my God.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 6:34-40\", subtitle3: \"I am the bread of life.\", text3: \"\u2018Sir,\u2019 they said, \u2018give us that bread always.\u2019 Jesus answered:\\n\u2018I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry;\\nhe who believes in me will never thirst.\\nBut, as I have told you,\\nYou can see and still you do not believe.\\nAll that the Father gives me will come to me,\\nand who ever comes to me\\nI will not turn him away;\\nbecause I have come from heaven,\\nnot to do my own will,\\nbut to do the will of the one who sent me.\\nNow the will of him who sent me\\nis that I should lose nothing\\nof all that he has given to me,\\nand that I should raise it up on the last day.\u2019\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Wednesday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Book of Wisdom 7:13-14\", subtitle1: \"A hymn to God\u2019s love\", text1: \"What I learned without self-interest, I pass on without reserve; I do not intend to hide her riches. For she is an inexhaustible treasure to men, and those who acquire her win God\u2019s friendship, commended as they are to him by the benefits of her teaching.\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 97(98)\", subtitle2: \"Orchastra of praise to God,king of the world\", text2: \"Sing a new song to the Lord\\nfor he has worked wonders.\\nHis right hand and his holy arm\\nhave brought salvation.\\n\\nThe Lord has made known his salvation;\\nhas shown his justice to the nations.\\nHe has remembered his truth and love\\nfor the house of Israel.\\n\\nAll the ends of the earth have seen\\nthe salvation of our God.\\nShout to the Lord, all the earth,\\nring out your joy.\\n\\nSing psalms to the Lord with the harp\\nwith the sound of music.\\nWith trumpets and the sound of the horn\\nacclaim the King, the Lord.\\n\\nLet the sea and all within it, thunder;\\nthe world, and all its peoples.\\nLet the rivers clap their hands\\nand the hills ring out their joy\\n\\nat the presence of the Lord, for he comes\\nfor he comes to rule the earth.\\nHe will rule the world with justice\\nand the peoples with fairness.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 16:5-11\", subtitle3: \"Unless I go, the Advocate will not come to you\", text3: \"Jesus said:\\n\u2018Now I am going to the one who sent me.\\nNot one of you has asked, \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d\\nYet you are sad at heart because I have told you this.\\nStill, I must tell you the truth:\\nit is for your own good that I am going\\nthe Advocate will not come to you;\\nbut if I do go,\\nI will send him to you.\\nAnd when he comes,\\nhe will show the world how wrong it was,\\nabout sin,\\nand about who was in the right,\\nand about judgement:\\nabout sin: proved by their refusal to believe in me;\\nabout who was in the right: proved by my going to the Father and your seeing me no more;\\nabout judgement: proved by the prince of this world being already condemned.\u2019\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Thursday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Letter to the Hebrews 2:9-10\", subtitle1: \"A hymn to God\u2019s love\", text1: \"We have seen Jesus crowned with glory and splendour because he submitted to death; by God\u2019s grace he had to experience death for all mankind. As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them to their salvation.\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 146(147)\", subtitle2: \"Praise to God who maintains the world\", text2: \"Alleluia!\\nPraise the Lord for he is good;\\nsing to our God for he is loving:\\nto him our praise is due.\\n\\nThe Lord builds up Jerusalem\\nand brings back Israel\u2019s exiles,\\nhe heals the broken-hearted,\\nhe binds up all their wounds.\\nHe fixes the number of the stars;\\nhe calls each one by its name.\\n\\nOur Lord is great and almighty;\\nhis wisdom can never be measured.\\nThe Lord raises the lowly;\\nhe humbles the wicked to the dust.\\nO sing to the Lord giving thanks;\\nsing psalms to our God with the harp.\\n\\nHe covers the heavens with clouds;\\nhe prepares the rain for the earth,\\nmaking mountains sprout with grass\\nand with plants to serve man\u2019s needs.\\nHe provides the beasts with their food\\nand young ravens that call upon him.\\n\\nHis delight is not in horses\\nnor his pleasure in warriors\u2019 strength.\\nThe Lord delights in those who revere him,\\nin those who wait for his love.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 17:1-5\", subtitle3: \"Priestly prayer of Christ.\", text3: \"After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:\\n\u2018Father, the hour has come:\\nglorify your Son\\nso that your Son may glorify you\\nand, through the power over all mankind\\nthat you have given him, let him give eternal\\nlife to all those you have entrusted to him.\\nAnd eternal life is this:\\nto know you,\\nand Jesus Christ whom you have sent.\\nI have glorified you on earth\\nand finished the work\\nthat you gave me to do.\\nNow, Father, it is time for you to glorify me\\nwith that glory I had with you\\nbefore ever the world was.\u2019\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Friday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Letter of St Paul to the Colossians 1:24-25\", subtitle1: \"A hymn to God\u2019s love\", text1: \"It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant of the Church when God made me responsible for delivering God\u2019s message to you.\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 50(51)\", subtitle2: \"God the protector. A pilgrimage song\", text2: \"Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.\\nIn your compassion blot out my offence.\\nO wash me more and more from my guilt\\nand cleanse me from my sin.\\n\\nMy offences truly I know them;\\nmy sin is always before me.\\nAgainst you, you alone, have I sinned;\\nwhat is evil in your sight I have done.\\n\\nThat you may be justified when you give sentence\\nand be without reproach when you judge,\\nO see, in guilt I was born,\\na sinner was I conceived.\\n\\nIndeed you love truth in the heart;\\nthen in the secret of my heart teach me wisdom.\\nO purify me, then I shall be clean;\\nO wash me, I shall be whiter than snow.\\n\\nMake me hear rejoicing and gladness,\\nthat the bones you have crushed may revive.\\nFrom my sins turn away your face\\nand blot out all my guilt.\\n\\nA pure heart create for me, O God,\\nput a steadfast spirit within me.\\nDo not cast me away from your presence,\\nnor deprive me of your holy spirit.\\n\\nGive me again the joy of your help;\\nwith a spirit of fervour sustain me,\\nthat I may teach transgressors your ways\\nand sinners may return to you.\\n\\nO rescue me, God, my helper,\\nand my tongue shall ring out your goodness.\\nO Lord, open my lips\\nand my mouth shall declare your praise.\\n\\nFor in sacrifice you take no delight,\\nburnt offering from me you would refuse,\\nmy sacrifice, a contrite spirit.\\nA humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.\\n\\nIn your goodness, show favour to Sion:\\nrebuild the walls of Jerusalem.\\nThen you will be pleased with lawful sacrifice,\\nholocausts offered on your altar.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 17:24-26\", subtitle3: \"He continued to pray.\", text3: \"Jesus continued to pray: \\n\u2018Father,\\nI want those you have given me\\nto be with me where I am,\\nso that they may always see the glory\\nyou have given me\\nbecause you loved me\\nbefore the foundation of the world.\\nFather, Righteous One,\\nthe world has not known you,\\nbut I have known you,\\nand these have known\\nthat you have sent me.\\nI have made your name known to them\\nand will continue to make it known,\\nso that the love with which you loved me may be in them,\\nand so that I may be in them.\u2019\"\n      },\n\n    \/\/ Saturday\n      {\n        title1: \"The Second Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 1:3-5\", subtitle1: \"A hymn to God\u2019s love\", text1: \"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God ourselves. Indeed, as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so, through Christ, does our consolation overflow.\",\n\n        title2: \"Psalm 91(92)\", subtitle2: \"Song of a happy man\", text2: \"It is good to give thanks to the Lord,\\nto make music to your name, O Most High,\\nto proclaim your love in the morning\\nand your truth in the watches of the night,\\non the ten-stringed lyre and the lute,\\nwith the murmuring sound of the harp.\\n\\nYour deeds, O Lord, have made me glad;\\nfor the work of your hands I shout with joy.\\nO Lord, how great are your works!\\nHow deep are your designs!\\nThe foolish man cannot know this\\nand the fool cannot understand.\\n\\nThough the wicked spring up like grass\\nand all who do evil thrive,\\nthey are doomed to be eternally destroyed.\\nBut you, Lord, are eternally on high.\\nSee how your enemies perish;\\nall doers of evil are scattered.\\n\\nTo me you give the wild ox\u2019s strength;\\nyou anoint me with the purest oil.\\nMy eyes looked in triumph on my foes;\\nmy ears heard gladly of their fall.\\nThe just will flourish like the palm-tree\\nand grow like a Lebanon cedar.\\n\\nPlanted in the house of the Lord\\nthey will flourish in the courts of our God,\\nstill bearing fruit when they are old,\\nstill full of sap, still green,\\nto proclaim that the Lord is just.\\nIn him, my rock, there is no wrong.\",\n\n        title3: \"The Gospel of John 15:9-11\", subtitle3: \"Remain in my love\", text3: \"Jesus said:\\n\u2018As the Father has loved me,\\nso I have loved you.\\nRemain in my love.\\nIf you keep my commandments\\nyou will remain in my love,\\njust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments\\nand remain in his love.\\nI have told you this\\nso that my own joy may be in you\\nand your joy be complete.\u2019\"\n      }\n    ];\n\n    const today = new Date();\n    const dayIndex = today.getDay(); \/\/ 0 = Sunday, 6 = Saturday\n    const content = dailyContent[dayIndex];\n\n    document.getElementById(\"WeekDay\").textContent = `Readings for: ${weekDays[dayIndex]}`;\n\n    document.getElementById(\"Title1\").textContent = content.title1;\n    document.getElementById(\"Title1.1\").textContent = content.subtitle1;\n    document.getElementById(\"main-text1\").innerHTML = content.text1.replace(\/\\n\/g, \"<br>\");\n\n    document.getElementById(\"Title2\").textContent = content.title2;\n    document.getElementById(\"Title2.1\").textContent = content.subtitle2;\n    document.getElementById(\"main-text2\").innerHTML = content.text2.replace(\/\\n\/g, \"<br>\");\n\n    document.getElementById(\"Title3\").textContent = content.title3;\n    document.getElementById(\"Title3.1\").textContent = content.subtitle3;\n    document.getElementById(\"main-text3\").innerHTML = content.text3.replace(\/\\n\/g, \"<br>\");\n  <\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayers of Intercession<br><\/strong>God is tremendous and all God&#8217;s works are wonderful, so we pray with hope and trust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That people who search for the truth may find a deep and lasting faith in God, discovering the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the source of all life and love. Lord, hear us. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For those who suffer in mind or body. Through the Holy Spirit my they experience healing and peace. Lord, hear us. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For all our loved ones who have died. Living in the presence of God may they rejoice and give glory and praise for ever more. Lord, hear us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Father<\/strong> (The Lord&#8217;s Prayer) <em>See (Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4)<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As children of the loving Father we say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Father, who art in heaven,<br>hallowed be thy name.<br>Thy kingdom come.<br>Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br>Give us this day our daily bread<br>and forgive us our trespasses<br>as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br>And lead us not into temptation,<br>but deliver us from evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gradient-text\">Today&#8217;s Prayer<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n  <style>\n    .quote-box3 {\n      padding: 0px;\n      width: 90%;\n      margin: auto;\n      background-color: #ffffff;\n    }\n    .day3 {\n      font-weight: bold;\n      font-size: 1em;\n      color: #0033CC;\n    }\n    .quote3 {\n      font-style: italic;\n      color: #444;\n    }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n  <div class=\"quote-box\">\n    <div class=\"day3\" id=\"dayName3\"><\/div>\n    <div class=\"quote3\" id=\"quoteText3\"><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <script>\n    const quotes3 = {\n      0: [\n        \"Lord of Life,\",\n\t\"increase our faith\",\n\t\"and strengthen our trust in you.\",\n\t\"So inspired\",\n\t\"help us to preach repentance,\",\n\t\"cast away all evil\",\n\t\"and bring your healing to all\",\n\t\"who suffer in spirit, mind and body.\",\n\t\"Through Christ our Lord. 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