Our Morning Offering – 20 February – Wednesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time, Year C

Prayer for the Gift of Prayer By St Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) Doctor of the Church

O Incarnate Word, You have given Your Blood and Your Life to confer on our prayers that power by which, according to Your promise, they obtain for us all that we ask. And we, O God, are so careless of our salvation, that we will not even ask You for the graces that we must have, if we should be saved! In prayer You have given us the key of all Your Divine treasures; and we, rather than pray, choose to remain in our misery. Alas! O Lord, enlighten us, and make us know the value of prayers, offered in Your name and by Your merits, in the eyes of Your Eternal Father. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 10 January

Prayer to the Holy Name – St. Alphonsus Liguori

O my Jesus, You are the Saviour who has given Your blood and Your life for me, I pray You to write Your adorable name on my poor heart; so that having it always imprinted in my heart by love, I may also have it ever on my lips, by invoking it in all my necessities. If the devil tempts me, Your name will give me strength to resist him; if I lose confidence, Your name will animate me to hope; if I am in affliction, Your name will comfort me, by reminding me of all You have endured for me. If I find myself cold in Your love, Your name will inflame me by reminding me of the love You have shown me. I have fallen into so many sins because I did not call on You; from henceforth Your name shall be my defense, my refuge, my hope, my only consolation, my only love. Thus do I hope to live and so do I hope to die, having Your name always on my lips. Amen

Our Morning Offering – 1 August – The Memorial of (1696-1787) Doctor of the Church

The One Thing Necessary By St Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) Doctor of the Church

0 my God, help me to remember That time is short, eternity is long. What good is all the greatness of this world at the hour of death? To love You, my God and save my soul is the one thing necessary. Without You, there is no peace, no joy. My God, I need fear nothing but sin. For to lose You, my God, is to lose all. 0 my God, help me to remember – That to gain all I must leave all, That in loving You I have all good things, the infinite riches of Christ and His Church, the motherly protection of Mary, peace beyond understanding, joy unspeakable! Eternal Father, Your Son has promised, that whatever we ask in His Name will be given to us. In His Name I pray: give me a burning faith, a joyful hope, a holy love for Jesus Christ. Give me the grace of perseverance in doing Your will in all things. Do with me what You will. I repent of having offended You. Grant, O Lord, that I may love You always and never let me be separated from You. O my God and my All, make me a saint! Amen