Can someone explain what "offer it up" means exactly?

[Vico]

Vico:

When you join your suffering voluntarily to that of Christ, then you also are not complaining about and regretting that offering.

I think this is some of where I struggle. Complaining I can control. Regret? Regret for me was always one of those things that was just there, it wasn’t like I ever felt I decided to regret or not regret something. And given my history, it would be to me decidedly odd to not regret or at least to not prefer that things to be otherwise. Who would not prefer health to sickness?

Surely we do regret sins that we did and having the consequences that we bear for them, although we would strive to see the consequences as a grace.

Catechism
1472 … While patiently bearing sufferings and trials of all kinds and, when the day comes, serenely facing death, the Christian must strive to accept this temporal punishment of sin as a grace…

 

[DarkLight]

Surely we do regret sins that we did and having the consequences that we bear for them, although we would strive to see the consequences as a grace.

What about the consequences for other people’s sins?

 

[Vico]

Vico:

Surely we do regret sins that we did and having the consequences that we bear for them, although we would strive to see the consequences as a grace.

What about the consequences for other people’s sins?

I suppose we follow our example.

Luke 22

42 Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but yet not my will, but thine be done. 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer. 44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

 

[AveOTheotokos]

@DarkLight

The key takeaway from the video I posted is to “offer up” not just bad moments, but all moments to God. Your joys, your sorrows, your successes, your failures, etc… We offer them as a sacrifice. Many people take sacrifice to mean giving up/going without something you want, or substituting your self to suffer in place of someone else.

All of these things can be a sacrifice, but only if you make them one. To sacrifice means “to make sacred”. How do we make something sacred? We offer it to God.

The example Fr. Mike Schmitz gives in the video for how to do this goes something like this:

Lord, be attentive to me, I’m attentive to You. I offer You this moment, it’s joys and/or sufferings, as a sacrifice, and I open myself to gain what You desire for me to gain/learn out of this moment so that I may better help Your will be done.

As Fr. Mike Schimtz say, this can be hard or painful, or something as wonderful as enjoying a nice meal, a beautiful sunset, or time with friends. God desires for us to have a relationship with Him, and wants us to share our lives with Him, both it’s ups and downs.