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Morning Offering — Sulpician

Sulpician (Olier)

2 min
Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

Morning Offering — Sulpician

Pray with Fr. Olier the daily synthesis of the French School — Jesus invited to live again in His servants.

O Jesus, living in Mary,

Come and live in Thy servants,

In the spirit of Thy holiness,

In the fullness of Thy might,

In the truth of Thy virtues,

In the perfection of Thy ways,

In the communion of Thy mysteries.

Subdue every hostile power,

In Thy Spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.

Then, in the spirit of the three movements, pause briefly on each:

Jesus before my eyes — that I may adore.

Jesus in my heart — that I may love.

Jesus in my hands — that I may serve.

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

About this prayer

The morning act in the spirit of Fr. Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657), founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice — Jesus invited to live anew each day in His servants, in the holiness, virtues, and mysteries of His own life.

History

Fr. Olier composed the prayer *O Jesu vivens in Maria* as the daily synthesis of the French School of Spirituality (Bérulle, Olier, de Montfort, Eudes). St. Louis de Montfort called it *a synthesis of the spiritual life and a summary of our Compendium.* The Sulpicians pray it at the close of every Office, and it serves admirably as the morning act for those drawn to this current of Christological-Marian interior life.

How to pray it

Pray slowly upon waking. The prayer's structure mirrors the Sulpician method — Jesus before the eyes (adoration), Jesus in the heart (communion), Jesus in the hands (cooperation) — by which the day is to be lived.

Fr. Jean-Jacques Olier, S.S. (1608–1657), *O Jesu vivens in Maria* — synthesis of the French School of Spirituality. English verified via [School of Mary](https://schoolofmary.org/the-interior-life-of-mary-according-to-monsieur-olier/); Portuguese via [Apostolado Adoração ao Sagrado Coração de Jesus](https://www.aascj.org.br/home/2021/03/oracao-jesus-vivendo-em-maria-reze-agora/).