FIRST PART.
DAILY EXERCISES.
1. On Rising.
In the morning on awakening, raise your heart to God by an act of love, offer Him all your daily actions, and pray Him to help you in all things.
Do not lose your time whilst dressing, but employ it in reciting some prayer or in making such ejaculations as the following:
MY God, I offer Thee whatever I may do or suffer this day. — My Jesus, mercy! — My Lord,
help me in all things; give me the grace of
always doing Thy holy will.
As soon as you are dressed, kneel before your crucifix and make the following acts of thanksgiving, love, and offering of all your actions and sufferings of the coming day: above all, fervently ask of Jesus and Mary the aid necessary to enable you faithfully to serve God during that day.
2. Morning Prayers
MY God, I firmly believe that Thou art here present. I adore Thy supreme majesty. I love Thy infinite goodness above all things. I thank Thee for all Thy benefits, and especially for having preserved me this night.
I offer Thee all my thoughts, words, actions, affections, and sufferings of this day, in union with those of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and hereby protest that I desire to perform all my actions solely with a view to pleasing Thee, and in honor of . . .[1]
- ↑ Sunday: The Most Holy Trinity and my holy patrons. Monday: The Holy Ghost. Tuesday: The holy angels and St. Anne. Wednesday: St. Joseph. Thursday: The Blessed Sacrament. Friday: The Passion and Sacred Heart of Jesus. Saturday: Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
