MUNDAY.
Morning Supplication
The devotee begins the day by seeking God's guidance and protection from the path of wickedness.
Lord, consider my words and my thoughts. O Lord, listen to the voice of my calling, my King and my God; for I will make my prayer to you. You will hear my voice in the morning, O Lord; early in the morning I will direct my prayer to you and look up. But help me remember that you are God and take no pleasure in wickedness; no evil can dwell with you. Amen. O Lord, bless me, and I will sing to you, and praise your Name, and tell of your salvation from day to day. Amen. O Lord, let your counsel guide me and your understanding keep me. Deliver me from the evil path and from those who speak deceitful things; and from all who abandon the ways of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. O Lord, I know that a person's way is not in their own control. It’s not in a person to direct their own steps. Therefore, Lord, I ask you to show me my path and guide my steps toward your honor and my own salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Confession and Mercy
A series of petitions acknowledging human frailty and ancestral sin, pleading for God's mercy.
Lord, don't be angry with me, but spare me and have mercy on me; for you will be merciful to your creature. O Lord, my ancestors and I have all suffered from the same sickness; but because we are sinners, you will be called merciful; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O Lord, guide me here with your counsel, and afterward, receive me into glory. For whom do I have in heaven but you? And there is no one on earth I desire in comparison to you. O Lord, preserve me in those longings for you. Amen. O God, take away from me the path of deceit, and help me to value your Law so that I may choose the way of Truth and keep your Judgments before me; may I hold fast to your Testimonies and run along the path of your Commandments when you have set my heart free. Amen. O God, the strength of all who trust in you, mercifully accept my prayers. Because human nature is too weak to do anything good without you, grant me the help of your grace, so that in keeping your commandments, I may please you in both will and deed, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O Lord, you are just, and all your ways are mercy and truth; you judge truly forever. Remember me and look upon me; do not punish me for my sins or my ignorance, or for those of my ancestors who sinned before you. Don't deal with me according to my sins, but as seems best to you, O Lord, my strength and my salvation. Amen. Lord, I acknowledge my wickedness and the iniquity of my fathers; we have sinned against you. O Lord, be merciful. Amen. Lord, don’t remember our offenses or those of our ancestors; don’t take vengeance for our sins. Spare us, good Lord, spare your people whom you have redeemed with your most precious blood, and don’t be angry with us forever. Amen.
Grace for Daily Living
Prayers for divine aid, protection, and the strength to live according to God's will.
Lord, I ask you to hear me mercifully. Just as you have given me a heartfelt desire to pray, grant that by your mighty aid I may be defended in both soul and body, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O Lord, please accept the prayers I offer, grant what I ask, and excuse my fears, because you, through your Christ, are the only hope for sinners, and through him I hope for forgiveness of my sins. Amen. O Lord, be gracious to me, and give me a heart to worship you and to do your will; open my heart to your law, and send me peace. Hear my prayers, be reconciled to me, and never forsake me in times of trouble, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. Remember me, Lord, according to the favor you show your people. Visit me with your salvation, so that I may see the happiness of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your people, and give thanks with your inheritance. Amen. O God, Protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply your mercy upon me, so that, with you as my ruler and guide, I may pass through temporal things without losing the eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. Grant, O Lord, that I may live in your fear, die in your favor, rest in your peace, rise in your power, and reign in your glory, for the sake of your only beloved Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Evening Sacrifice and Final Surrender
The chapter concludes with evening prayers, reflections on the brevity of life, and a total surrender of the self to God.
Hear me, O Lord, consider my complaint, and listen to my prayer that doesn’t come from deceitful lips; show me mercy before the evening of my days closes in on me, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. O Lord! I pray to you, let my weakness not prevail, but let this only be spoken, in which the salvation of my soul lies. And may I never burst forth in folly and impiety, wishing to judge your omnipotence and the Sacraments. Do not allow me to elevate the sense of my weakness beyond your infinite power or the significant faith of your eternity. Amen. Lord, please illuminate our darkness and drive away the snares of this entire night from me and all your faithful, especially from their souls, but also from our bodies, graciously, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O God, you have prepared such good things for those who love you that they surpass human understanding. Pour your love into my heart so that, by obeying you in all things, I may obtain your promises, which exceed all that I can desire, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Incline your ear to me, O Lord, and listen to my words. Show your marvelous loving-kindness, you who are the Savior of those who put their trust in you. Keep me as the apple of your eye, and hide me under the shadow of your wings, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. O Lord, I cry out to you; let my prayer be presented in your sight like incense, and the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice, even for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and I will praise Him in my song. Amen. O Lord of all power and might, the Author and giver of all good things: plant in my heart the love of your Name, increase in me true religion, nourish me with all goodness, and by your great mercy keep me in the same, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Lord, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how long I have to live. Behold, you have made my days as short as a span, and my lifespan is nothing compared to you: truly, every living person is utterly vain. For people walk in a vain shadow and trouble themselves in vain; they pile up riches but can't tell who will gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope? Truly, my hope is in you. Deliver me from all my offenses and don't let me be a rebuke to the foolish, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. O Lord! I offer you all that I am and all that I have: my actions and my words, my rest and my silence. Just let me be in your hands and guide me; direct my hands, my mind, and my speech toward what is honorable and pleasing to you, and keep me away from everything I should avoid. Through and because of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Read the original Latin
POnder my words, O Lord, consider my meditations. O hearken unto the voice of my calling, my King and my God; for unto thee will I make my prayer. My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O Lord: early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. But make me remember, that thou art God, and hast no pleasure in wickedness, neither shall any evil dwell with thee. Amen.
O Lord, bless me and I will sing unto thee, and praise thy Name, and be telling of thy salvation from day to day. Amen.
O Lord, let counsell preserve me, and understanding keep me. Deliver me from the evil way, & from the man that speaketh froward things; and from all such as leave the ways of Righteousness to walk in the ways of Darkness: even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps. Therefore, O Lord, I beseech thee, make me know my way, and direct my steps to thy honour and my own salvation, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BE not wroth with me, O Lord, but spare me and have mercy upon me; for thou wilt be merciful unto thy creature. O Lord, I and my Fathers have all had the same sickness: but, because of us that are sinners, thou shalt be called merciful; through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord, guide me here with thy Counsell, and after that receive me into Glory. For whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth, that I desire in comparison of thee. O Lord preserve me in those longings after thee. Amen.
O God, take from me the way of lying, and cause me to make much of thy Law, that I may chuse the way of Truth, and lay thy Iudgments before me: that I may stick unto thy Testimonies, and run the way of thy Commandements, when thou hast set my heart at liberty. Amen.
O God, the strength of all them that trust in thee; Mercifully accept my prayers: and because the weakness of mans nature can do no good thing without thee; grant me the help of thy Grace, that inkeeping of thy commandements, I may please thee both in will and in deed, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord, thou art just, and all thy ways are mercy and truth: thou judgest truly for ever; remember me and look upon me: punish me not according to my sins or my ignorances, or my Fathers, which have sinned before thee: deal not with me according to my sins, but as seemeth best unto thee, O Lord my strength and my salvation. Amen.
Lord, I acknowledge my wickedness, and the iniquity of my Fathers: we have sinned against thee, O Lord be merciful. Amen.
Remember not Lord our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Amen.
Lord, I beseech thee, mercifully to hear me: And as th…hast given me an hearty desire to pray; so grant that by thy mighty aid I may be defended both in soul and in body, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Domine, accipe quaeso quas offero preces, dona quod rogo, excusa quod timeo: quia tu per Christum tuum es unica spes peccatorum, & per eum spero veniam delictorum. Amen.
O Lord, be gratious unto me, and give me an heart to worship thee, and to do thy Will; and open my heart in thy Law, and send me peace: hear my prayers, and be reconciled to me, and never forsake me in the time …trouble, for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
Remember me, O Lord, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people. O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see the felicity of thy chosen, and rejoyce in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. Amen.
O God the Protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Encrease and multiply upon me thy mercy, that thou being my ruler, and guide, I may so pass through things temporal, that I finally lose not the things eternall. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
Grant, O Lord, that I may live in thy feare, dye in thy favour, rest in thy peace, rise in thy power, raigne in thy glory, for thy only beloved son's sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
HEar, O Lord, consider my complaint, hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips: and prevent me in mercy, before the Evening of my daies close up upon me; even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
O Domine! Oro te, ultra se infirmitas mea non tendat, sed loquatur hoc solum, in quo animae salus est. Neque in id stultitiae simul & impietatis unquam erumpam, ut omnipotentiae tuae & Sacramentorum arbiter esse velim. Ne que permittas me erigere infirmitatis meae sensum ultra aut infinitatis tuae religiosam opinionem, aut significatam mihi aeternitatis tuae fidem. Amen.
Illumina quaeso, Domine, tenebras nostras, & totius noctis hujus insidias a me & omnibus fidelibus tuis, ab animabus praecipue, sed & a corporibus nostris repelle propitius per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
O God, which hast prepared for them that love thee, such good things as pass mans understanding; Pour into my heart such love towards thee, that I obeying thee in all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that I can desire, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ENcline thine ear unto me, O Lord, and hearken unto my words. Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee. Keep me as the apple of thine eye, and hide me under the shadow of thy wings, even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
O Lord, I cry unto thee, let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as Incense, and the lifting up of my hands be an Evening Sacrifice, even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
The Lord is my Strength and my Shield, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him. Amen.
O Lord of all power and might, who art the Author and giver of all good things; Graft in my heart the love of thy Name, increase in me true Religion, nourish me with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep me in the same, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
LOrd, let me know my end, and then umber of my daies; that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast made my daies as it were a span long, and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee: and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell, who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope? truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish, even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
O Domine! Mea omnia & meipsum tibi dono offero, actionem & sermonem, quietem & silentium. Tantum me habeas & ducas; & manum & mentem & linguam, ad ea quae honesta sunt & tibi grata, moveas: & ab omnibus, a quibus abstinere praestat, abducas. Per & propter Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
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