The Morning Offering
Begin every day by offering all your prayers, works, joys, and sufferings to the Sacred Heart.
Why this practice
The Morning Offering is the oldest and most practical of the daily devotions to the Sacred Heart. With one short prayer, the whole day — its meetings, its tedium, its small irritations and small joys — is gathered up and placed on the altar.
It is also the foundation of the Apostleship of Prayer, by which the Pope's monthly intention becomes one's own. To say the Morning Offering is to live the day as a member of the Church praying with one heart for the world.
How to begin
By the Morning Offering we place the day, before it has begun, into the hands of the One who alone knows what it will hold.
— Traditional
A prayer for this practice
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer Thee my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of Thy Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, the reunion of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our Holy Father this month.
Amen.