“Let us love God, but with the strength of our arms, in the sweat of our brow.”— St. Vincent de Paul
Morning Offering – Fix Your Mind on His Passion
“Fix your minds on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inflamed with love for us, he came down from heaven to redeem us. For our sake he endured every torment of body and soul and shrank from no bodily pain. He himself gave us an example of perfect patience and love. We, then, are to be patient in adversity.”
— St. Francis of Paola
Morning Offering – The Altar of Your Heart
“Build an oratory within yourself, and there have Jesus on the altar of your heart. Speak to Him often while you are doing your work. Speak to Him of His holy love, of His holy sufferings and of the sorrows of most holy Mary.”
— St Paul of the Cross
Morning Offering – Love Him
“Totally love Him, Who gave Himself totally for your love.”
— St. Clare of Assisi
Morning Offering – A Tiny Spark of God’s Love
“If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out… Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter… Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.”
— St. Charles Borromeo
Morning Offering – Set the World on Fire
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
— St. Catherine of Siena
Morning Offering – I See Clearly
“I see clearly with the interior eye, that the sweet God loves with a pure love the creature that He has created, and has a hatred for nothing but sin, which is more opposed to Him than can be thought or imagined.”
— St. Catherine of Genoa
Morning Offering – Just Acts
“No act is charitable if it is not just.”
— St. Bruno
Morning Offering – Nothing More to Lose
“When one has nothing more to lose, the heart is inaccessible to fear.”
— St. Théodore Guérin
Morning Offering: Think Well. Speak Well. Do Well.
“Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.”
— St. Camillus