Praying at home today:
By God’s grace, we can experience redemption and healing

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A warm welcome to PrayingAtHome.com, where you can find worship resources for praying at home today or wherever you are.

We hope these readings, prayers, music and the short reflection will help you stay in touch with the Church and to sustain you on your journey through life.

If this is your first visit to this website, then you might like to read about the common elements and the suggested structure for each day’s prayer.
Everything’s optional!

Opening to the Word

You can spend a few moments in silence,
focussing on your breathing
to become more mindful of the present moment
and to open yourself more fully
to God’s presence within you.

Short reading

Jesus said, ‘It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come.

Dicebat Jesus autem, quoniam quae de homine exeunt, illa communicant hominem.
Ab intus enim de corde hominum malae cogitationes procedunt

Jésus dit encore: C’est ce qui sort de l’homme qui le rend impur.
En effet, c’est de l’intérieur, c’est du cœur des hommes que sortent les mauvaises pensées.

Mark 7:20-21a

The Liturgy of the Word

Here are today’s Bible readings.
You can read just one, or all three if you have time.

One link to all three readings

• Deuteronomy 4:21-40; Psalm 105(106):1-6, 13-23, 47-48; Mark 7:9-23

Separate links to each reading

• Deuteronomy 4:21-40
• Psalm 105(106):1-6, 13-23, 47-48
• Mark 7:9-23

Short Reflection

Our Gospel today picks up on Sunday’s, as Jesus reminds us that it’s not what goes into a human person that makes them unclean but what comes out. 

The heart, that most misunderstood organ, has the power to do great good but it also has the potential for evil.

Every day, we have choices to make and the choices that we make influence future ones (vicious and virtual circles).

By God’s grace, a vicious circle can be redeemed as a turning is made from destructive ways to a better future.

It is never too late for one to be saved.

It is never too late for someone to change their life.

But often, that impetus for change has to come from someone else, someone believing in a person, a “no-gooder”, who has been written off by society.

There but for God’s grace, go I.

By God’s grace, I too can be saved,
I can experience redemption and healing.

By God’s grace, you too can be saved,
you can experience redemption and healing,
in the depth of your being.

In loco isto
dabo pacem

In this place
I will give you peace

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Music for reflection

Prayer Suggestions

We continue our journey in faith today:

• for all affected by the climate emergency
• with thanks for the signs of hope between Israel and Palestine
• for the people of Afghanistan
• for the Benedictine Community at Pluscarden Abbey
• for all who inspire us.

(In Holy Trinity, Stirling, we invite you to pray today
for Primus Mark and the College of Bishops.)

For all who have asked for our prayers.

a moment of silence

Pray for us all
Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer

We can say the Lord’s Prayer in any language or version we choose.
Here it is, in English, Latin and French.

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those
who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom,
the power and the glory are yours, 
now and for ever.
Amen.

Pater Noster

Pater noster, qui es in cælis;
sanctificetur nomen tuum:
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua,
sicut in cælo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie:
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris:
et ne nos inducas in tentationem:
sed libera nos a malo.

Quia tuum est regnum,
et potestas, et gloria, in saecula.
Amen.

La Prière du Seigneur (2017)

Notre Père, qui es aux cieux,
que ton nom soit sanctifié,
que ton règne vienne,
que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd’hui notre pain de ce jour.
Pardonne-nous nos offenses,
comme nous pardonnons aussi à ceux qui nous ont offensés.
Et ne nous laisse pas entrer en tentation
mais délivre-nous du Mal.

Car c’est à toi qu’appartiennent le règne,
la puissance et la gloire
pour les siècles des siècles. Amen.

L’Église Catholique de Paris

Concluding prayer

Almighty and merciful God,
by whose grace alone your faithful people offer you service and praise:
grant that we may hasten without stumbling towards the things that you promise;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
ever one God, world without end.
Amen.

Pentecost 14

Returning to the world

Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Benedicamus Domino.
Deo gratias.

Thank you for joining us in praying at home.
Oremus pro invicem.

In these strange times, we are called to trust

* You can find more organ music from Holy Trinity Church, Stirling
on Alistair Warwick‘s website and on SoundCloud

There are several books by Brother Roger of the Taizé Community from many booksellers.

You can buy The Complete Chronicles of Narnia at Bookshop.org

Praying at Home Today: Acknowledgements

The lectionary for weekdays is taken from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library.

In that lectionary, the readings are in the following order: Old Testament reading, Psalm, New Testament reading; we have changed the order to the more usual OT, Psalm and NT.

English Bible texts are usually from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Latin Bible texts are from Biblia Sacra Vulgata, and are in the Public Domain.

French Bible texts are usually from Version Segond 21, copyright © 2007 Société Biblique de Genève by Société Biblique de Genève.

Images, unless otherwise stated, are from lockdown in Scotland, by Alistair Warwick.

Music engraved by The Art of Music.

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