This document contains prayers for morning including an introduction, a responsive reading of Psalm 42, a short reading and meditation on Psalm 37:16-17, and a concluding prayer. The Psalm expresses a longing for God and lament that enemies are saying "Where is your God?". The meditation encourages remembering that though in despair, God does not deprive us of help and it is our duty to stir our minds to never forget God. The concluding prayer asks God to grant faith, peace and other virtues through Christ.

1. July 15, 2014
Morning
Prayers

2. Introduction
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
One thing I have asked of thee Lord, this is what I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life;
To behold the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
Amen. Alleluia.
If you are praying with another person – read responsively
where appropriate

3. The Psalm – Psalm 42Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
1
As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
2
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God?
3
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”
4
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng,
and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.
5
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help 6
and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7
Deep calls to deep
at the thunder of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows
have gone over me.
8
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9
I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?”
10
As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”
11
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

4. Short Reading and Meditation
Better the little that the
righteous have than the
wealth of many wicked;
for the power of the
wicked will be broken, but
the LORD upholds the
righteous.
Thought for Today
When in the depths of
despair, we may look back
and see times of rejoicing
and long again for those
times. It is not that God is
depriving us of his help, it is
our duty to be diligent in
stirring up our minds, that
we may never suffer
ourselves to forget God. The
Lord forgives; be strong and
courageous.
Psalm 37:16-17

5. Prayer
Pray Silently or Aloud for Others and Yourself
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayers.
May God, who sees all things, and who is the Ruler of all spirits
and the Lord of all flesh - who chose our Lord Jesus Christ and
us through Him to be a peculiar people - grant to every soul
that calls upon His glorious and holy Name, faith, peace,
patience, long-suffering, self-control, purity, and sobriety, to
the well-pleasing of His Name, through our High Priest and
Protector, Jesus Christ, by whom be to Him glory, and majesty,
and power, and honor, both now and forevermore. AMEN.
- Clement of Rome