good morning
My Jesus, I offer this day to you-all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings-and through you, I make this offering to Our Father in Heaven. Be with me through this day in all it’s particulars, and assist me that it may become a worthy offering in every way.
Be close to me in all I think and say and do. Direct your spirit to speak to me and guide me-and help me to listen attentively when he does speak…so that, in my response, your thoughts may become more surely my thoughts, and your ways may become my ways; so that my judgements may accord with your judgements, and that the sentiments of my heart may be most like your very own; so that my conversation with others may be conversation I may ask you to share with us, and that my works may be works that I ask you to approve.
Help me to have the practical Wisdom to look to your Mother from time to time, as I go about the duties of my day, in an effort to find the grace of a better way in motherhood; for she is the perfect example of all virtues and is your loving gift to us as a perfect model of all motherhood.
May I know the continued grace to do work with you in all I do, and not merely for you…so that my day may become a perfect offering-lived with you, in you and through you-to be presented to our Father in joy and love.
Taken from Mothers’ Manual by A. Francis Coomes, S.J.