Sacred
Heart Chaplet
V/. O GOD, come to my assistance.
R/. O LORD, make haste to help me.
V/. Glory be to the Father...
R/. As it was in the Beginning...
I. MY most loving JESUS, when I ponder over
thy most Sacred Heart, all tenderness and sweetness for sinners, then doth my
heart rejoice, and I am filled with hope of thy kind welcome. But, ah me, my
sins! how many and how great! With
Peter and with Magdalene, I bewail and abhor them, because they are an offence
to Thee, my Sovereign Good. Oh, grant me pardon for them all. I pray thy Sacred
Heart that I may rather die than offend Thee again, and may live only to love
Thee.
PATER once, Gloria five times, in honour of the Sacred Heart, then : Sweet Heart of my JESUS, Make me love Thee
ever more and more,
II. MY JESUS, I bless thy most humble Heart;
and I give thanks unto Thee, who in making It my model dost urge me with strong
pleadings to imitate It, and also, at the cost of so many humiliations, dost
vouchsafe thyself to point out and smooth for me the way to follow Thee. Fool
and ungrateful that I am, how have I wandered far away from Thee! Pardon me, my
JESUS! Take away from me all hateful pride and ambition, that with lowly heart
I may follow Thee, my JESUS, amidst humiliations, and so gain peace and salvation.
Strengthen me, Thou who canst, and I will ever bless thy Sacred Heart.
PATER once, Gloria five times, in honour
of the Sacred Heart, then : Sweet Heart of my JESUS, Make me love Thee ever more and more,
III. MY JESUS, I marvel at thy most patient
Heart, and I give Thee thanks for all the wondrous examples of unwearied
patience which Thou hast left us. It grieves me that these examples still have
to reproach me for my excessive delicacy, shrinking from every little pain.
Pour, then, into my heart, O dear JESUS, a fervent and constant love of
suffering- and the cross, of mortification and of penance, that, following- Thee
to Calvary, I may with Thee attain the joys of Paradise.
PATER once, Gloria
five times, in honour of the Sacred Heart, then : Sweet Heart of my JESUS, Make me love Thee ever more and more,
IV. DEAR JESUS, beside thy most gentle Heart I
set my own, and shudder to see how unlike mine is to thine. How am I wont to fret and grieve when a hint,
a look, or a word thwarts me! Pardon all my violence, and give me for the
future grace to imitate in every contradiction thy unalterable meekness, that
so I may enjoy an everlasting holy peace.
PATER once, Gloria five times, in
honour of the Sacred Heart, then : Sweet Heart of my JESUS, Make me love Thee ever more and more,
V. LET us sing praise to JESUS for his
generous Heart, Conqueror of death and hell; for well It merits every praise.
Still more than ever confounded am I, looking upon my coward heart, which
dreads even a rough word or injurious taunt. But it shall be so with me no
more. My JESUS, I pray Thee for such strength that, fighting and conquering
self on earth, I may one day rejoice triumphantly with Thee in heaven.
PATER once,
Gloria five times, in honour of the Sacred Heart, then : Sweet Heart of my JESUS, Make me love Thee ever more and more,
NOW let us turn to Mary, and dedicating
ourselves yet more and more to her, and trusting in her Mother s heart, we say
to her: By all the virtue of thy most sweet heart obtain for me, great Mother
of GOD, our Mother Mary, a true and enduring devotion to the Sacred Heart of
JESUS, thy Son, that, bound up in every thought and affection in union with
his Heart, I may fulfil each duty of my state, serving JESUS ever more with
readiness of heart, and specially this day.
V/. Heart of JESUS, burning with love or
us,
R/.. Inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
Let us pray
LORD, we beseech Thee, let thy HOLY SPIRIT
kindle in our hearts that fire of charity which our LORD JESUS CHRIST, thy SON,
sent forth from his inmost Heart upon this earth, and willed that it should
burn exceedingly. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same
HOLY SPIRIT, GOD for ever and ever. Amen.
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