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Week 25 of Ordinary Time

Midday Prayer

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Prayer Reading Mode: Prayer Space

Hours Depth: Medium

About today

Francesco Forgione (1887–1968), known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin priest of Pietrelcina. For fifty years he heard confessions, celebrated Mass, and bore in his body the marks of the Passion. Crowds came; he pointed them to the sacraments, not to himself. The Church keeps his memorial on 23 September. He wanted souls, not a following, and the wounds he bore were never a spectacle he chose. Ask today for a hidden life of prayer, and for the courage to bring sin into the light of mercy.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Opening

God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

Midway through the labor, Lord, We pause beneath Your gaze. The morning zeal has thinned a little; Steady us for the remaining ways. Christ who bore the heat of noonday, Stay beside the tasks we hold. Make our hands a quiet service, And our words both true and bold.

Original, Prayer on Fire

Psalm I

Antiphon

Give me a humble mind when success tempts me, and courage when I fail.

Psalm 67 (66):2–4

Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)

Psalm

May God have mercy on us and bless us. May he shine his countenance upon us, and may he have mercy on us. So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Antiphon

Give me a humble mind when success tempts me, and courage when I fail.

Psalm II

Antiphon

Peace in the center of the day — Christ, be my stillness.

Psalm 72 (71):1–2, 12–13

Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)

Psalm

Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment. For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper. He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Antiphon

Peace in the center of the day — Christ, be my stillness.

Silence

A moment of silence

Reading

Romans 12:1–2

Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

Responsory

Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall walk and not faint. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

Intercessions

Bless the labor of this hour — the seen and the hidden — and let it become a quiet offering.

R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Closing prayer

Jesus, you come in the one who needs patience. Open our eyes at noon. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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An original Prayer on Fire offering for the hours of the day