Daria Doering

MORNING OFFERING

From First Holy Communion Prayer Book

Oh my God, whatever I say,

Be to thy honor, all this day.

Whatever I think, whatever I do,

I offer it to thy glory too.

Oh Jesus, through the immaculate heart of Mary,

I offer you the prayers, works and sufferings of this day.

For all the intentions of thy divine heart.

Amen

A MORNING PRAYER

Let me today do something that will take

A little sadness from the world’s vast store,

And may I be so favored as to make

Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more.

Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed

Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend.

Nor would I pass unseeing worthy need,

Or sin by silence when I should defend.

However meager be my worldly wealth,

Let me give something that shall aid my kind –

A word of courage, a thought of health

Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.

Let me tonight look back across the span

‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say –

Because of some good act to beast or man –

“The world is better that I lived today.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox