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Offering daily duties

Offer your work, family life, and small daily struggles to the Sacred Heart in reparation.

Why this practice

Reparation is not made only in church. It is made in traffic, at the office, in the kitchen, at a difficult family table. Every moment of ordinary life — done well, done for love — can be offered in reparation to the Sacred Heart.

This is the form of reparation accessible to everyone: the mother of small children, the worker in a hard job, the patient in chronic illness. Nothing of ordinary life is wasted on the Heart that takes it.

How to begin

1At the start of each day (or in the Morning Offering itself), give the whole day to the Heart of Jesus as an act of reparation.
2When difficulties arise — annoyances, fatigue, contradictions — silently renew the offering: "For Thy Heart."
3Do the work itself well. Reparation through poorly-done work is no reparation at all.
4At the end of the day, gather it all up in your evening prayer and place it before His Heart.

Reparation is made not in great deeds, but in small days lived for love.

— After St. Thérèse of Lisieux

A prayer for this practice

Sacred Heart of Jesus, this day I have lived as I could. The work and the struggle and the small denials I gather up now and place before Thee. Let them console Thy Heart for what others, perhaps including me, have not given.

Amen.

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