Acts of Devotion to the
Sacred Heart
I. The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt
amongst us.
ETERNAL Word, made Man for love of us,
humbly kneeling at thy feet we adore Thee with the deepest veneration of our
souls; and in order that we may repair our ingratitude for this great benefit
of thy Incarnation, we unite ourselves to the hearts of all those who love
Thee, and together with them we offer Thee our humble loving thanksgiving-.
Pierced by the excess of humility, goodness, and sweetness which we behold in
thy Divine Heart, we beseech Thee to give us thy grace, that in our lives we
too may imitate these virtues so dear to Thee. PATER, Ave, and Gloria.
II. He was crucified also for us; suffered
under Pontius Pilate, and was buried.
JESUS our loving SAVIOUR, humbly kneeling
at thy feet we adore Thee with the deepest veneration of our souls; and, in
order that we may give Thee proof of the sorrow w r e feel at our insensibility
to the outrages and sufferings which thy loving Heart made Thee undergo for our
salvation in thy painful Passion and Death, we here unite ourselves with the
hearts of all those who love Thee, and together with them we give thanks unto
Thee with our whole soul. We wonder at the boundless patience and generosity of
thy divine Heart; and we entreat Thee to fill our hearts with such a spirit of
Christian penance as may enable us courageously to embrace suffering, and to
make thy Cross our great comfort and all our glory. PATER, Ave, Gloria.
III. Thou didst give them bread from
heaven to eat, containing in itself all sweetness.
JESUS, who dost burn with love for us,
humbly kneeling at thy feet we adore Thee with the deepest veneration of our
souls; and, in order to make Thee reparation for the outrages which thy divine
Heart daily receives in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar, we unite
ourselves with the hearts of all those who love Thee, and give Thee tenderest
thanks. We love in thy divine Heart this thy incomprehensible fire of love towards
thy Eternal FATHER, and we entreat Thee to inflame our hearts with ardent
charity towards Thee and towards our neighbour. PATER, Ave, and Gloria.
LASTLY, O most loving JESUS, we pray Thee,
by the sweetness of thy Divine Heart, convert the sinner, console the
afflicted, help the dying, lighten the pains of the souls in purgatory. Make
all our hearts one in the bonds of true peace and charity, deliver us from
sudden and unforeseen death, and grant us a death holy and peaceful. Amen.
V/.. Heart of JESUS, burning- with love of
us,
R/. Inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
Let us pray
GRANT, we beseech Thee, Almighty GOD, that
we who glory in the most Sacred Heart of thy well beloved SON, and call to mind
the chief benefits of his heavenly charity towards us, may be gladdened by the
operation and the fruit of those graces in our souls. Through the same CHRIST,
Our Lord. Amen
O Divine Heart of my JESUS! I adore Thee
with all the powers of my soul; I consecrate them to Thee for ever, together
with all my thoughts, my words, my works, and my whole self. I purpose to offer
to Thee, as far as I am able, acts of adoration, love, and glory, like unto
those which Thou dost offer to thine.
Eternal FATHER. I beseech Thee, be Thou
the reparation for my transgressions, the protector of my life, my refuge and
asylum in the hour of my death. By thy sighs, and by that sea of bitterness in
which Thou wast immersed for me throughout the whole course of thy mortal life,
grant me true contrition for my sins, contempt of earthly things, an ardent
longing for the glory of heaven, trust in thy infinite merits, and final
perseverance in thy grace.
Heart of JESUS, all love! I offer Thee
these humble prayers for myself, and for all who unite with me in spirit to
adore Thee; vouchsafe, of thy infinite goodness, to receive and to answer them,
and especially for that one of us who shall first end this mortal life. Sweet
Heart of my SAVIOUR, pour down upon him, in the agony of death, thine inward
consolations; place him in thy sacred wounds; cleanse him from every stain in
that furnace of love, that so Thou mayest open to him speedily the entrance
into thy glory, there to intercede with Thee for all those who yet tarry in
their land of exile.
Most Holy Heart of my most loving JESUS, I
purpose to renew these acts of adoration and these prayers for myself,
miserable sinner that I am, as well as for all who are associated with me to
adore Thee, every moment while I live, down to the last instant of my life. I
recommend to Thee, my JESUS, the Holy Church, thy well-beloved Spouse, our own
true Mother, the souls that undergo thy justice, all poor sinners, those who
are in affliction, the dying, and all mankind let not thy Blood be shed in vain
for them; and, last of all, vouchsafe to receive my poor prayers for the relief
of the souls in purgatory, and, above all, for those who in the course of their
life were wont devoutly to adore Thee.
Most loving heart of Mary, which, amongst
the hearts of all creatures of GOD, art at once the most pure, most inflamed
with love for Jesus, and most compassionate towards us poor sinners, gain for
us from the Heart of JESUS our REDEEMER all the graces which we ask of thee.
Mother of mercies, one single throb, one beat of thy heart, all on fire with
love towards the Heart of JESUS, has power to console us to the full.
Only grant us this favour and the Heart of
JESUS, out of that filial love It had and will ever have for thee, will not
fail to hear and answer us. Amen.
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