His homily about the morning offering from the Feast of the Epiphany, 6th January 1882:

“Let each one of you he said, never neglect the sign of the cross the moment you awake from sleep. Remember that there stands at your bedside, watching you, the demon who wants to drag you down to hell by tempting you to sin, the good angel who watches you to help you to heaven.   You must choose for the day which you will follow.    If you make the sign of the cross at once, you place yourselves on the side of God, you choose His standard, and the devil will flee from you.    When rising, you must praise and adore God for His goodness in sparing you to see another day.   Never, never leave the room where you have slept, no matter what the hurry of your business may be, without saying at least three or four Our Fathers and Hail Marys, in honour of the ever Blessed Trinity, to place yourself under God’s protection for the day.    This will only take you a few moments.   Then you must offer to God all your actions for the day, that they may belong to Him! Oh! What merit you will have for any action thus offered to Him! It will not take you very long to say- “I offer you all my thoughts, words and actions to the honour and glory of God, into the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in union with the Adorable Heart of Jesus, and the sufferings of my Divine Lord, for the souls in purgatory”    All our actions are consecrated to God, and offered to His honour and glory, and we leave all our actions at the disposal of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for those Holy Souls who when released from Purgatory, will never forget us.   They will pray constantly for us at the throne of God. One soul released from Purgatory gives more glory to God than the entire universe.”