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This morning’s reflection asks a simple but uncomfortable question:Are we polishing the mirror of our thoughts, or are we actually walking the road set before us?

Today’s Morning Prayer speaks about the temptation to endlessly analyze ourselves rather than to live the life placed in front of us.

In this short conversation, two hosts explore the paradox at the heart of the prayer — why the search for perfect self-understanding can sometimes become an excuse not to act.

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Invitatory

V. O Lord, open thou my lips.R. And my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Antiphon: The Lord is our light and our salvation: come, let us adore him.

Psalm 94 (95)

Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.For the Lord will not cast off his people: for in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Hymn (Week III Cycle – Public Domain)

Now That the Daylight Fills the Sky

Now that the daylight fills the sky,We lift our hearts to God on high;That he, in all we do or say,Would keep us free from harm today.

Would guard our hearts and tongues from strife,From anger’s din would shield our life;From evil sights would turn our eyes,And close our ears to vanities.

Psalmody

Antiphon 1: Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me.

Psalm 85 (86)

Bow down thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.In the day of my trouble I have cried to thee: because thou hast heard me.There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works…(Psalm continues in full Douay-Rheims form.)

Antiphon 2: He who walks in justice shall dwell on high.

Canticle — Isaiah 33:13–16

Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and you that are near, know my strength.The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites.Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?He that walketh in justice, and speaketh truth…He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness…

Antiphon 3: Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle.

Psalm 97 (98)

Sing ye to the Lord a n