Question on personal sacrifices

[Pilsen]

Say you made a personal sacrifice (ie withheld from having a second slice of cake). Can the intention be for something personal ie asking Jesus to grant you a request? Or are these sacrifices only meant to be offered for others?

 

[R_C]

Say you made a personal sacrifice (ie withheld from having a second slice of cake). Can the intention be for something personal ie asking Jesus to grant you a request? Or are these sacrifices only meant to be offered for others?

Ideally, all we do is meant to be for God’s greater glory and for the good of souls - including our own, of course!

If it is a request for the good of your soul, I don’t see why not accompaign it with a personal sacrifice, especially one that reveals such kindness and simplicity After all, the Lord did say: ask, and you shall receive. Here’s a hint: offer all sacrifices and prayers through the intercession of Our Lady…even your humble offering becomes of grand merit before Christ, if offered by you with sincere love and brought to Him in the hands of she who once held Him as an infant

"I do not look at the act itself, I look at the intention. The smallest act, if done out of love, acquires such merit that it gives Me immense consolation. When a soul is generous enough to give Me all I ask, she gathers up treasure for herself and others and snatches great numbers of souls from perdition. I want only love, I ask for nothing else.

Write for My souls: The soul who constantly unites her life with Mine glorifies Me and does a great work for souls. Thus, if engaged in work of no value in itself . . . if she bathes it in My Blood or unites it to the work I Myself did during My mortal life, it will greatly profit souls . . . more perhaps, than if she had preached to the whole world . . . and that, whether she studies, speaks or writes . . . whether she sews, sweeps or rests . . . provided first that the act is sanctioned by obedience or duty and not done from mere caprice; secondly: that it is done in intimate union with Me, with great purity of intention and covered with My Blood.

I so much want souls to understand this! It is not the action in itself that is of value; it is the intention with which it is done. When I swept and labored in the workshop of Nazareth, I gave as much glory to My Father as when I preached during My Public Life.

There are many souls who in the eyes of the world fill important posts and they give My Heart great glory; this is true. But I have many hidden souls who in their humble labors are very useful workers in My vineyard, for they are moved by love, and they know how to cover their deeds with supernatural gold by bathing them in My Blood. My love goes so far that My souls can draw great treasure out of mere nothing."

Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez.

(Private revelations authorized for publication in April 1936 by Cardinal Pacelli - later Pope Pius XII - who wrote: “I do not doubt that the Sacred Heart of Jesus is pleased by the publication of these pages so filled with the great love inspired by His grace to His most humble servant”)

 

[Philomena_Maria]

the way I see it, Jesus is there to assist with your needs regardless… the sacrifice you’re making is more to benefit your own soul… to draw you away from the pull of the world… that’s what lenten sacrifices do.