Prayers of the Saints
Offering of the Day (St. Francis de Sales)
An offering from the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Salesian tradition, meant to be prayed at the start of a day already known to be hard.
O my God, I thank you and I praise you
for accomplishing your holy and all-lovable will
without any regard for mine.
With my whole heart, in spite of my heart,
do I receive this cross I feared so much.
It is the cross of your choice, the cross of your love.
I venerate it; nor for anything in the world
would I wish that it had not come,
since you willed it.
I keep it with gratitude and with joy,
as I do everything that comes from your hand;
and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag,
with all the respect and all the affection
which your works deserve. Amen.
Salesian devotional tradition
About the prayer
Francis de Sales taught devotion for shopkeepers and mothers, not only for monks, and this prayer shows it.
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