Does offering up work, sufferings, and prayers help?

[thestudentAD]

For the past few days to almost a week, I’ve been offering up prayers, rosary chaplets, and days at work as well as sufferings for certain intentions: Unborn, Mother’s illness, Penance for sins, and other intentions, does this really help?

 

[Petaro]

I can only hope so. We are taught by the encyclical Salvifici Deloris to combine our suffering to those of our beloved Saviour. It is my confirmed hope that my offering of my sufferings for the intentions of Our Lady and in contrition for my sins and the sins of those I have sinned with will be accepted by my Christ. Even if he accords me no remission from Purgatory; he may smile at my intention to accord my will to His and sign to His angel at the last day that the stupid fat one waving fatuously from the tree is, unfortunately, one of His.

 

[PennyinCanada]

It really really helps.
Remember when Christ fed the 5,000 (not counting women and children) ?? Some little boy offered his 2 loaves and 5 fish to Christ and this is what the power of God did. We are that little boy! Have every confidence in the generosity of God to multiply your little bit that you give him. God wishes for us to ask. Make this a daily task so that at the end of your life (that may be sooner than we think!) God will say “Good and faithful servant! Come into the joy that has been prepared for you!” The grace I wish us all.

 

[z_0101]

For the past few days to almost a week, I’ve been offering up prayers, rosary chaplets, and days at work as well as sufferings for certain intentions: Unborn, Mother’s illness, Penance for sins, and other intentions, does this really help?

In a simple answer, yes.
However, maybe not in a way that you nor I will understand until the end-times.

 

[midori]

Yes. Keep it up.

 

[cjforJesus]

For the past few days to almost a week, I’ve been offering up prayers, rosary chaplets, and days at work as well as sufferings for certain intentions: Unborn, Mother’s illness, Penance for sins, and other intentions, does this really help?

Of course it all makes a difference but not in a way you or I can understand as mere humans.

 

[Dorothy]

And, when we offer up our prayers and sacrifices to our Blessed Mother, and she gives it to our Lord Jesus Christ from her pure hands, it is even more beautiful to our Lord!

She is truly our Mother in the order of grace, and when she sees us she sees Jesus her Son.

 

[KCT]

7+ years ago, I gave up Starbucks as a sacrifice for someone who left the Church.

St. Monica prayed for what, 30 years for her son, St. Augustine?

Never give up. God uses everything.

 

[Dorothy]

7+ years ago, I gave up Starbucks as a sacrifice for someone who left the Church.

St. Monica prayed for what, 30 years for her son, St. Augustine?

Never give up. God uses everything.

Yes He does! And He waits for the right timing before He pours those prayed for graces on those we are praying for.

 

[alphawoman]

Yes! It works wonders!

Through the rosary, my mum converted to Catholicism of her own initiative, and my grandfather received extreme unction, despite having led an extremely outwardly sinful life. Miracles happen all the time through prayer and offering of our life’s work.

 

[Dorothy]

Yes! It works wonders!

Through the rosary, my mum converted to Catholicism of her own initiative, and my grandfather received extreme unction, despite having led an extremely outwardly sinful life. Miracles happen all the time through prayer and offering of our life’s work.

Amen!

 

[thestudentAD]

Sorry I haven’t been replying. Anyway, I still do it. Sometimes I wonder if it doesn’t really help, even though after confession I offer up my work, my sufferings, and my sorrows up to God.

 

[Dorothy]

Sorry I haven’t been replying. Anyway, I still do it. Sometimes I wonder if it doesn’t really help, even though after confession I offer up my work, my sufferings, and my sorrows up to God.

It is good that you still offer up those things! I am certain that the Lord is blessing you for what you are doing. It helps our hearts to become more generous; and it also helps others that the Lord applies the graces to.

 

[puzzledtoo]

Offering our suffering, our day or whatever the offering may be is in my view a form of prayer. A prayer that we are offering for something, someone, some group, some intention that is greater than ourselves. Doing this can be very transformational in itself. Even if we are viewing the divine as a vending machine we are still taking time to think of someone else and this helps to transform us into better people. Maybe/probably we don’t get the result we prayed specifically for but we are different because of the offering we’ve made.

 

[thestudentAD]

Okay, Thanks for the advice and the answers, everyone!

 

[fred_conty]

It says in the bible 1 Samuel, that God does not look at the appearance of a man, but rather looks at his heart.

And we, who are modeled after God, do much the same thing with regard with those whom we value.

I makes all the difference in the world when we offer even the tinest things to God out of love for him for we are his children, and that is the way he looks upon us. A father loves his child, and if the child tries to please his father, even tho his attempt fails, the father still appreciates that child’s efforts.

It is the same with our heavenly Father, to treat him as a real Father who very much looks into our heart and longs for our love.

So yes, all that we do in love counts very much, and our prayers are answered more because we try to please him and love him more than any thing else we might do. This is why the saints prayers were so strong and powerful, even bringing about miracles…love.

Especially if our prayers are unselfish, they are most pleasing.