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 Offering. This may  be  done  while  you  are walking from  one  room  into  another. It takes none  of  your  time,  it  costs  no  money, it gives  no  pain. It requires  only  an  act  of your  will. But you  share  every  day  in  the prayers and  good  works  of  30,000,000  associates, and  of  nearly  all  the  Religious Orders in  the  world. You gain  numerous  indulgences, thereby  satisfying  for  temporal punishments that  may  be  due  on  account  of your  sins  and  omissions,  and  saving  yourself from a  longer  purgatory. By these  indulgences you may  also  help  your  friends  and  other poor souls  who  have  gone  before  you  into  the next world,  and  who  will  in  gratitude  become your intercessors  forever. You may  keep away afflictions  and  trials  that  may  be  now in store  for  you  on  account  of  your  lukewarmness. You will  surely  receive  from God more  abundant  spiritual  and  temporal blessings.

"This devotion  of  the  Morning  Offering/' says  Father  Rickaby,  S.J.,  "rests  on  the main and  essential  principles  of  Christianity; namely, that  in  Christ  we  have  access  to  the Father (Eph.  ii.  18);  that  there  is  no  salvation in any  other,  no  other  name  under  heaven given to  man,  whereby  we  are  to  be  saved