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Summary
- The Psalms already pray in the morning: “I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me” (Psalm 3:5), and Mark 1:35 records Jesus praying “a great while before day.”
- The Russian Orthodox morning prayer to the Holy Trinity, “От сна воста́в, благодарю́ Тя, Свята́я Тро́ице,” is quoted in Church Slavonic with a literal English translation, alongside a thanksgiving from the Orthodox Matins morning prayers in Hapgood’s 1906 translation.
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer gives thanks “for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night,” dedicates the new day to God, asks protection in “A Collect for Grace” and gives thanks for everything in “A General Thanksgiving.”
- The 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers gives a prayer to say “as soon as you are awake” and a morning offering that thanks God for bringing the reader “safe to the beginning of another day.”
- Fifteen short prayers cover waking, health, family, daily bread, mercy, guidance, protection, strength, kind words, work, worry, serving others, the morning’s beauty, the world and giving the day to God.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Joshua 1:9; Psalm 3:5; 5:3; 19:14; 92:1–2; 104:24; 118:24; 121:8; 143:8; Isaiah 40:29; Lamentations 3:22–23; Matthew 6:11; Mark 1:35; Luke 22:42; Acts 17:28; Galatians 5:13; Philippians 4:6; Colossians 3:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; 1 Timothy 2:1–2; James 1:19). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- “Молитвы утренние с толкованием” (Morning prayers with commentary), Молитва ко Пресвятой Троице. Молитвослов, Азбука веры (Azbyka.ru). https://azbyka.ru/molitvoslov/molitvy-utrennie.html
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Matins, the Morning Prayers, pp. 21–22. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, “A Collect for Grace,” p. 17, and “A General Thanksgiving,” p. 19; Family Prayer, “Acknowledgment of God’s Mercy and Preservation, especially through the Night past,” p. 587, and “Dedication of Soul and Body to God’s Service,” p. 588. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Another Form of Morning Prayers, pp. 51–52. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
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