Traditional Catholic prayer
A Daily Oblation to Jesus
A traditional Catholic offering of the day, asking for virtue, careful speech, and help in overcoming habitual faults.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 611.
Adorable Jesus! divine model of that perfection to which all Christians should aspire, I will endeavor this day, after Thy example, to be mild, humble, chaste, zealous, patient, charitable, and resigned. Incline my heart, O Lord! to keep Thy commandments. I am resolved to watch over myself with the greatest diligence and circumspection, and to live soberly, justly, and piously for the time to come.
I will place a guard on my mouth, and a gate of prudence before my lips, that I may not offend with my tongue. I will turn away my eyes, that they may not see vanity; and I will be particularly attentive not to relapse this day into my accustomed failings, but to struggle against them, and, with Thy gracious assistance, correct them. Enlighten my mind, O Lord, purify my heart, and guide my steps, that I may pass all my life in Thy divine service. Amen.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 611.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- A Daily Oblation to Jesus offers the day to Our Lord and asks for help in practicing virtue, guarding one’s speech, and correcting habitual faults. Oblation means an offering; this prayer is printed in With God (1911), page 611.
- Prayer intention
- Daily virtue, careful speech, resistance to habitual faults, and fidelity to God’s commandments.
- When to pray
- At the beginning of the day or when renewing the intention to correct a repeated fault.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 611. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
A Daily Oblation to Jesus
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 611.
Adorable Jesus! divine model of that perfection to which all Christians should aspire, I will endeavor this day, after Thy example, to be mild, humble, chaste, zealous, patient, charitable, and resigned. Incline my heart, O Lord! to keep Thy commandments. I am resolved to watch over myself with the greatest diligence and circumspection, and to live soberly, justly, and piously for the time to come.
I will place a guard on my mouth, and a gate of prudence before my lips, that I may not offend with my tongue. I will turn away my eyes, that they may not see vanity; and I will be particularly attentive not to relapse this day into my accustomed failings, but to struggle against them, and, with Thy gracious assistance, correct them. Enlighten my mind, O Lord, purify my heart, and guide my steps, that I may pass all my life in Thy divine service. Amen.