Our Morning Offering – 21 March – Thursday of the Second week of Lent, Year C

My Lord, I Offer You Myself Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

My Lord, I offer You myself in turn, as a sacrifice of thanksgiving. You have died for me, And I in turn make myself over to You. I am not my own. You have bought me: I will, by my own act and deed, complete the purchase. My wish is to be separated from everything of this world; To cleanse myself simply from sin; To put away from me even what is innocent, If used for its own sake and not for Yours. I put away reputation and honour and influence and power, For my praise and strength, shall be in You. Enable me to carry out what I profess Amen

Our Morning Offering – 8 March – Friday after Ash Wednesday

Thy Grace – a Lenten Prayer By Blessed John Henry Newman

O my God, suffer me still, bear with me in spite of my waywardness, perverseness and ingratitude! I improve very slowly but really, I am moving onto heaven, or at least I wish to move. Only give me Thy grace meet me with Thy grace, I will, through Thy grace, do what I can and Thou shall perfect it for me. Then shall I have happy days, in Thy Presence and in the sight and adoration of Thy five Sacred Wounds. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 13 January – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

O Most Sacred, Most Loving Heart of Jesus By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

O Most Sacred, most loving Heart of Jesus, You are concealed in the Holy Eucharist and You beat for us still. Now, as then You say, “With desire I have desired.” I worship You the, with all my best love and awe, with my fervent affection, with my most subdued, most resolved will. You, for a while, take up Your abode within me! O make my heart beat with Your Heart. Purify it of all that is earthly, all that is proud and sensual, all that is hard and cruel, of all perversity, of all disorder, of all deadness. So fill it with Thee, that neither the events of the day nor the circumstances of the time, may have power to ruffle it but that, in Your love and Your fear, it may have peace. Amen.

Our Morning Offering – 27 August – The Memorial of Blessed Dominic Barberi of the Mother of God C.P. (1792-1849)

One of Bl Dominic’s major Conversions, Bl John Henry, will do the honours today.

Raise My Heart Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

O my God, whatever is nearer to me than You, things of this earth and things more naturally pleasing to me, will be sure to interrupt the sight of You, unless Your grace interfere. Keep You my eyes, my ears, my heart, from any such miserable tyranny. Keep my whole being fixed on You. Let me never lose sight of You and while I gaze on You, let my love of You grow more and more every day. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 2 October – The Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

My Oldest Friend By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

My oldest friend, mine from the hour When first I drew my breath, My faithful friend, that shall be mine, Unfailing, till my death….

Mine when I stand before the Judge, And mine, if spared to stay Within the golden furnace, till My sin is burn’d away.

And mine, O Brother of my soul, When my release shall come, Thy gentle arms shall lift me then, Thy wings shall waft me home.

Our Morning Offering – 8 July – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Prayer before Holy Communion By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

O my God, holiness becomes Your House, and yet You make Your abode in my breast. My Lord, my Saviour, to me You come, hidden under the semblance of earthly things, yet in that very flesh and blood which You took from Mary, You, who did first inhabit Mary’s breast, come to me. My God, You see me; I cannot see myself… You see how unworthy, so great a sinner is, to receive the One Holy God, whom the Seraphim adore with trembling… My God, enable me to bear You, for You alone can. Cleanse my heart and mind from all that is past… give me a true perception of things unseen, and make me truly, practically, and in the details of life, prefer You to anything on earth, and the future world, to the present. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 5 March – Tuesday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time, Year C – Shrove Tuesday 2019

The Grace of Thy Love By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

O My God, strengthen me with Thy strength, console me with Thy everlasting peace, soothe me with the beauty of Thy countenance, enlighten me with Thy uncreated holiness. Bathe me in Thyself and give me to drink, as far as mortal man may ask, of the rivers of grace which flow from the Father and the Son, the grace of Thy consubstantial, co-eternal Love. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 7 January – Christmas Weekday Monday after Epiphany

O my God, all is Good if it comes from You By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

O my God, I will put myself without reserve, into Your hands. Wealth or woe, joy or sorrow, friends or bereavement, honour or humiliation, good report or ill report, comfort or discomfort, Your presence or the hiding of Your countenance, all is good if it comes from You, You are wisdom and You are love – what can I desire more? You have led me in Your counsel and with glory You have received me What have I in heaven and apart from You, what want I upon earth? My flesh and my heart fail but God is the God of my heart and my portion forever. Amen