We must turn to the Lord every day asking for his help to keep him always present; and not only in the moments expressly dedicated to talk to him, but also in the normal daily activities, because we want them to be well carried out and to be a prayer pleasing to God. For this reason we can say with the Church: We ask you, Lord, to prevent our actions and help us to pursue them, so that all our work may begin in you and reach its goal through you
In the Holy Mass we find the most opportune moment to renew the offering of our life and the works of the day. When the priest offers the bread and wine, we offer all that we are and possess, and all that we intend to do in the day that is beginning. On the paten we place our memory, our intelligence, our will? In addition, family, work, joys, pain, worries... And the ejaculations and acts of atonement, the spiritual communions, the small mortifications, the acts of love with which we hope to fill the day. These gifts that we offer will always be poor and small, but when united to the oblation of Christ in the Mass, they become immeasurable and eternal. "All your works, your prayers and apostolic initiatives, your married and family life, your daily work, your rest of soul and body, if done in the Spirit, and even the trials of life itself, if patiently endured, become spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (cf. 1 Peter 2:5), which in the celebration of the Eucharist are piously offered to the Father together with the oblation of the Body of the Lord "
At the altar, together with the bread and wine, we have left all that we are and possess: illusions, loves, works, worries.... And at the moment of the Consecration we give it definitively to God. Now, none of it is ours alone, and therefore - as the one who has received it in deposit and administration - we must use it for the purpose for which we have destined it: for the glory of God and to do good to those who are close to us.
Having offered all our works to God will help us to do them better, to work more effectively, to be more joyful in family life even if we are tired, to be better citizens, to live better together with everyone. We can repeat the offering of our works, even if only in thought, many times during the day, for example, when we begin a new activity, or when what we are doing is particularly difficult. The Lord also accepts our weariness, which thus acquires a redeeming value.
Let us live each day as if it were the only one we have to offer to God, trying to do things well, rectifying when we have done them badly. And one day it will be our last and we will also have offered it to God our Father. Then, if we have tried to live by continually offering our life to God, we will hear Jesus say to us, as he did to the good thief: Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise