Ordinary Time Prayers
What is Ordinary Time?
Ordinary Time is the season outside of the other major liturgical seasons. It runs immediately after the Christmas season until Lent and then resumes again after Easter season. Its focus is on the entirety of Christ's person and deeds. These Ordinary Time prayers are varied in their themes for this reason.
More info: All About Ordinary Time
Prayer to Grow With the Church Year
Lord Jesus, I know that all human relations take time if they are to grow and deepen. This is also true of my relations with You, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which must grow over the course of my life. However, this growth is not automatic; time alone means nothing unless I add earnest efforts to it.
You have inspired Your Church to set aside special times when this growth can develop more intensely — the special seasons of the Church Year. If I fail to move toward You during these times, I waste precious opportunities and endanger my spiritual life. Help me to take them seriously and make a real attempt to use them well, so that I may grow into the person You want me to be.
New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book
Divine Office Psalm Prayer
Lord, You are the fullness of life, of holiness, and of joy. Fill our days and nights with the love of your wisdom, that we may bear fruit in the beauty of holiness, like a tree watered by running streams.
Psalm Cycle, Sunday Week One
Introductory Prayer to Grow in Christ
Heavenly Father, You are the One from Whom every family derives its origin. Grant that, in keeping with Your glorious riches, we may be strengthened with power through the Spirit for the development of our inner selves. Help us to develop our natural potentialities to the full while at the same time growing in Your likeness to Your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book
Canticle to Christ the Divine Servant
Though he was in the form of God, He did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, Being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself And became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him And bestowed on him the name which is above every name, That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, In heaven and on earth and under the earth, And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, To the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Philippians 2:6-11, RSV
Prayer to Discern God's Call
Heavenly Father, Your call never comes to us in a vacuum; It comes to us in the circumstances of our ordinary lives. Therefore our response cannot be given only in the privacy of our own minds; it must overflow into our daily lives. You call us through our family, through our community of Church, and through the world.
Help me to see that when I say no to the legitimate requests of my family, my community, or my world, I say no to You. You have ordained that whatever advances the true progress of self of the Church and of the world, is my way of saying yes to your call. May I take advantage of the daily opportunities that You place at my disposal to answer your call affirmatively.
New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book
Opening Prayer for the 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time
God of wisdom and love, source of all good, send your Spirit to teach us your truth and guide our actions in your way of peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Opening Prayer for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Father, You call your children to walk in the light of Christ. Free us from the darkness and keep us in the radiance of your truth. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Opening Prayer for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Almighty and ever-living God, Your Spirit made us your children, confident to call you Father. Increase your Spirit within us and bring us to our promised inheritance. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Monday Week I Prayer
Father, may everything we do begin with your inspiration and continue with your saving help. Let our work always find its origin in you and through you reach completion. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
The Liturgy of the Hours
Saturday Week IV Prayer
All-powerful and ever-living God splendor of true light, and never-ending day let the radiance of your coming banish from our minds the darkness of sin. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
The Liturgy of the Hours
Compiled by David Bennett
Updated 06-12-2018