Sunday's Morning Offering

 

Dear God,

Today is Sunday, Your holy day, and I want to give it all to You.

I offer You all my prayers, my little works, my joys, and even anything hard that comes today. I join them to the merits of Jesus, to the prayers of dear Mother Mary, and to all the Saints in Heaven.

I praise You, dear God, because You are my almighty Creator. You made me, and You made everything that lives. I honor Jesus, who came down from Heaven and became Man for us, and I love Him for being born so poor and so gentle in Bethlehem.

I thank You for my holy Guardian Angel, and for all the Angels and Saints who help us and pray for us.

Thank You for creating me, dear Lord. Thank You for watching over me, even when I do not notice it. Thank You for keeping me safe from many sins, dangers, temptations, and troubles.

Please give me a strong and faithful heart. Help me want what You want. Bless and protect Your Holy Catholic Church. And when my life is finished someday, please bring me safely home to Heaven.

I am sorry for all my sins, especially for anything I have done that hurt the Faith or made me less loving toward You. I also pray for the souls of my departed friends and benefactors, especially the ones who are forgotten and have no one to pray for them.

Please take this Sunday, dear God, and make it a little offering of praise, thanksgiving, sorrow, and love.

Amen.

This prayer comes from a very small and beautiful Catholic prayer book printed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1776, titled Auserlesenes Gebethbüchlein, meaning “A Choice Little Prayer Book.” It includes morning and evening prayers, prayers for Confession and Holy Communion, litanies, and other daily devotions. First prepared for the young nobility of Austria and later published for all Catholics, the book contains old German blackletter pages, delicate devotional engravings, and Church approval pages showing the prayers had been examined and approved in Augsburg in 1752. Nearly 250 years later, these prayers are being gently translated into clear English by Sister Mary Claire for Kathy at Camp Littlemore Farm, so they may once again be prayed slowly and reverently. 

Saturday's Morning Offering

Dear Jesus,

On this Saturday,
I offer my heart to You,
for the honor of God our Father,
and for Your glory and majesty.

I also remember today
all the Saints and holy friends of Heaven
who loved You faithfully upon the earth,
and now rejoice forever in Your presence.

I thank You
for the hope of eternal life,
and for Your patience with me
as I try to follow You each day.

I thank You
for the beautiful examples
left to us by You,
by the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and by all the Saints.

I thank You
for every grace,
every quiet help,
and every gentle mercy
You have given me along the way.

Jesus, please watch over our home,
and keep us close
under Mary’s loving care.

Teach me gentleness,
kindness toward others,
and a humble and quiet spirit.

Help me to deny myself
in little things,
to grow in holiness,
and to receive the graces
most needed for my soul.

I pray also for those
who do not yet know You,
for wandering souls,
and especially for those persons
You desire me to remember
in prayer today.

And dear Jesus,
I am sorry for my sins,
and for the times
I have failed to love You
as I should.

Please bless all souls devoted to Mary,
and all those whose holy lives
are pleasing in Your sight.

Mary, dear Mother,
teach me to love Jesus
with a pure and faithful heart.

Please watch over me today,
and keep my heart close to His,
until this day is done.

Amen.

This prayer comes from a very small and beautiful Catholic prayer book printed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1776, titled Auserlesenes Gebethbüchlein, meaning “A Choice Little Prayer Book.” It includes morning and evening prayers, prayers for Confession and Holy Communion, litanies, and other daily devotions. First prepared for the young nobility of Austria and later published for all Catholics, the book contains old German blackletter pages, delicate devotional engravings, and Church approval pages showing the prayers had been examined and approved in Augsburg in 1752. Nearly 250 years later, these prayers are being gently translated into clear English by Sister Mary Claire for Kathy at Camp Littlemore Farm, so they may once again be prayed slowly and reverently.

Friday's Morning Offering

 

Dear Jesus,

today I offer my heart to You
in honor of Your holy Passion,
Your bitter suffering,
Your sacred wounds,
and Your precious Blood.

I thank You, dear Jesus,
for the seven painful times
You shed Your precious Blood for us:

when You were circumcised
as a little baby…

when You sweat Blood
in the Garden…

when You were scourged
at the pillar…

when the thorns pierced
Your holy head…

when You carried
the heavy Cross…

when Your hands and feet
were nailed upon it…

and when Your Sacred Heart
was opened
by the soldier’s lance.

Thank You for bringing us back
to our Heavenly Father
through Your suffering and love.

Thank You for forgiving sins,
for the grace of Holy Confession,
and for every mercy
You give to a poor sinner like me.

Please give me
a prayerful heart,
patience in suffering,
holy zeal for God’s honor,
and kindness toward everyone,
even those who are hard to love.

Help me to think kindly of others,
to forgive quickly,
and to remember Your Cross
whenever life is hard.

Dear Jesus,
I offer this little prayer
in sorrow for my sins,
especially the ones I have forgotten.

Keep me close
to Your holy Passion,
and never let me wander
far from You.

Amen.

This prayer comes from a very small and beautiful Catholic prayer book printed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1776, titled Auserlesenes Gebethbüchlein, meaning “A Choice Little Prayer Book.” It includes morning and evening prayers, prayers for Confession and Holy Communion, litanies, and other daily devotions. First prepared for the young nobility of Austria and later published for all Catholics, the book contains old German blackletter pages, delicate devotional engravings, and Church approval pages showing the prayers had been examined and approved in Augsburg in 1752. Nearly 250 years later, these prayers are being gently translated into clear English by Sister Mary Claire for Kathy at Camp Littlemore Farm, so they may once again be prayed slowly and reverently. 

Thursday's Morning Offering

 

Dear Jesus, my most merciful Savior,

truly present in the Holy Eucharist —
veiled beneath the forms of bread and wine,
yet truly God and truly Man —
I honor and adore You this morning.

I also honor the holy confessors, virgins, and widows of Heaven,
especially those whose memory the Church keeps today.

Thank You, dear Jesus,
for lovingly placing me in the vocation and life You chose for me.
Thank You for giving us the Blessed Sacrament
for the good of our souls.
Thank You for feeding me so often
with Your own Presence in Holy Communion,
and for surrounding my life
with so many graces, helps, and blessings.

Please grant me today
a true knowledge of You
and a humble understanding of myself.
Help me guard my senses and thoughts carefully.
Give me a deep and tender love and reverence
whenever I receive Holy Communion.
Teach me to pray faithfully
for the needs of Your Holy Church,
and in Your mercy grant eternal rest to my parents, family,
and all those I love who have died.

And dear Jesus,
I am sorry for the times
I have been cold, careless, or distracted in prayer or at Holy Communion.
Forgive the sins I have committed
through my senses, words, or actions,
and inwardly within my heart and soul.
Forgive every irreverence, coldness, or forgetfulness
I have shown toward Your holy Presence in the Blessed Sacrament.

Please keep me near Your Sacred Heart today, dear Jesus,
and let my thoughts, words, and work be offered quietly for love of You.

Amen.

This prayer comes from a very small and beautiful Catholic prayer book printed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1776, titled Auserlesenes Gebethbüchlein, meaning “A Choice Little Prayer Book.” It includes morning and evening prayers, prayers for Confession and Holy Communion, litanies, and other daily devotions. First prepared for the young nobility of Austria and later published for all Catholics, the book contains old German blackletter pages, delicate devotional engravings, and Church approval pages showing the prayers had been examined and approved in Augsburg in 1752. Nearly 250 years later, these prayers are being gently translated into clear English by Sister Mary Claire for Kathy at Camp Littlemore Farm, so they may once again be prayed slowly and reverently. 

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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.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning,
is now,
and ever shall be,
world without end.

Amen.

About These Prayers

The Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory Be are among the best-loved prayers of the Catholic Church.

The Our Father was given to us by Jesus Himself when His disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray. It is found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

The Hail Mary begins with the words spoken to Mary by the Angel Gabriel and by Saint Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke. The Church later added the tender petition asking Mary, the Mother of God, to pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

The Glory Be is an ancient Christian prayer of praise to the Holy Trinity. Its familiar form became widely used during the fourth century and has long been prayed at the conclusion of psalms, decades of the Rosary, and other devotions.

These three prayers were taken from My Daily Companion at Mass, published by the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, Missouri. This copy is the third edition, dated December 1948. The little prayer book originally sold for ten cents and bears the Church’s Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur.

Morning Prayer

 

O dearest Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,

This morning I come to you with love and trust.

I place myself in your motherly care, and I give you my whole self—my body and my soul, my thoughts and my heart, and everything I will do today.

Dear Mother Mary, stay close beside me. Watch over me wherever I go.

Keep me from sin and from anything that might lead me away from your dear Son, Jesus.

Help me to be good and gentle today. Guide my thoughts, my words, and everything I do, so that my life may be pleasing to God.

When something is difficult, help me to be patient. When I am afraid, help me to trust.

And when I forget to think of God, gently lead my heart back to Him.

Blessed Mother, keep me beneath your loving protection all through this day.

And when my life on earth is finished, please lead me safely home to Jesus, where I may be with Him forever.

Amen.

This beautiful Morning Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary comes from an old handwritten German Catholic prayer book. Written in the traditional script of an earlier time, it reflects a simple and deeply trusting devotion to Our Lady.