Offering. This may be done while you are walking from one room into another. It takes none of your time, it costs no money, it gives no pain. It requires only an act of your will. But you share every day in the prayers and good works of 30,000,000 associates, and of nearly all the Religious Orders in the world. You gain numerous indulgences, thereby satisfying for temporal punishments that may be due on account of your sins and omissions, and saving yourself from a longer purgatory. By these indulgences you may also help your friends and other poor souls who have gone before you into the next world, and who will in gratitude become your intercessors forever. You may keep away afflictions and trials that may be now in store for you on account of your lukewarmness. You will surely receive from God more abundant spiritual and temporal blessings.
"This devotion of the Morning Offering/' says Father Rickaby, S.J.,[1] "rests on the main and essential principles of Christianity; namely, that in Christ we have access to the Father (Eph. ii. 18); that there is no salvation in any other, no other name under heaven given to man, whereby we are to be saved
- ↑ Father Rickaby, S.J., "Ye are Christ's."
