O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honoring and glorifying Thee. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee.
I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death. Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee.
I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted servants.
Amen.
From EWTN.
In this consecration prayer, we offer ourselves totally to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that we may belong to Jesus alone. Because Jesus, true God and true Man, has a human nature (as well as a divine nature), He has a human heart.
In 1956 Pope Pius XII wrote a beautiful encyclical all about devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Haurietis Aquas. This encyclical is quoted below in the passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
“Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each one of us: ‘The Son of God … loved me and gave himself for me’ (Gal. 2:20). He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation (cf. Jn. 19:34), ‘is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that … love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings’ (Haurietis Aquas) without exception” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 478).
Jesus loves you so much that He died for you on the Cross! How can each of us not endeavor to love Him in return by living our lives for Him?
The consecration to the Sacred Heart above was written by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, (1647-1690), a French Visitation nun. Jesus appeared to her and instructed her to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart and asked that a feast day in Its honor be established in the Church. (The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the Friday after the Second Sunday after Pentecost.) The feast day of St. Margaret Mary is October 16.
We encourage you to consecrate yourself to Jesus’ Most Sacred Heart with this beautiful consecration prayer.
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