SACRED HEART OF JESUS
NOVENA
May 25 –
June 2
Second day
“Behold the heart that has so much loved men,
and has spared nothing for love of them, even to consuming itself to give them
pledges of its love, but which receives from the majority of men no other
recompense but ingratitude, and insults towards the Sacrament of love; and what
grieves Me most is, that these hearts are consecrated to Me.”
THE
HEART OF JESUS
IS
THE MOST PERFECT MODEL OF LOVE
‘I will give them a Heart. I will make an everlasting covenant with
them, and will not cease to do them good’ - Jer. 32: 40
Jesus has
given us His Heart, with the Cross, the Thorns, the Wound, and the Flames, in
order that we might give Him ours, without reserve or division, and strive to
love as He loves. His Divine Heart is really the most perfect model of love for
us, as we shall find in the second meditation. Let us commence by a general
consideration to which the pious reader will be ever ready to return, though it
has been before pointed out. The heart of man is the source of all good; it is
also the principle of evil, of good and evil thoughts, of virtues and vices.
‘They come forth from the heart’. But the heart of a God is necessarily the
most perfect of all hearts, the very temple and sanctuary of sanctity, the
treasury of every virtue. The most sublime intelligences of heaven, the
glorious Seraphim, the flaming Cherubim, are not able to look into the abyss of
that divine ocean, nor fathom its depth, extent, or height. They contemplate it
with ecstasy, and with eternal longings which never weary.
Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart
O Lord
Jesus, I consecrate my heart to you; place it in yours. It is therein I wish to
breathe, to love, to live unknown to men. And known only to you. It is in this
sacred heart I shall derive those loving ardors which should consume mine; it
is there I shall find strength, light, courage, and true consolation. When sad,
it will rejoice me; when languishing, it will animate me; when troubled and
disquieted, it will encourage and uphold me. O heart of Jesus! May my heart be
the altar of your love. May my memory preserve for ever the precious
remembrance of Your mercies. May all in me express my love for your heart, O
Jesus, and may my heart be disposed to offer you every sacrifice. O heart of
Mary, the most amiable, compassionate, and merciful, after that of Jesus,
present to his divine heart my love, my resolutions, my consecration. It will
be moved by my miseries; it will deliver me from them: and, after having been
my protectress on earth, O blessed Mother, you will be my queen in heaven.
Amen.
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