Devotion to the Sacred Heart every day: prayer on January 9st
PRAYER OF SANTA GERTRUDE
I greet you, Sacred Heart of Jesus, living and life-giving source of eternal life, infinite treasure of divinity, ardent furnace of divine love. You are the place of my refuge, the refuge of my security. O my lovable Savior, light my heart with that most ardent love that inflames your Heart; pour into my heart the great graces that find the living source in your Heart; make your will become my will and always conform to it, because I want your holy will to be the rule of all my desires and all my actions for the future. Amen.
CONSECRATION PRAYERS OF SANTA MARGHERITA MARIA
I do not give and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, my person and my life, my works, pains, sufferings, so as not to want to use any part of my being anymore than to honor and glorify him.
This is my irrevocable will: to be all hers and to do everything for her sake, giving up with all my heart what could displease him.
I take you, therefore, Sacred Heart, for the only object of my love, for the protector of my life, for the safety of my salvation, for the remedy of my fragility and inconstancy, for the repairer of all the faults of my life, and for safe asylum at the hour of my death.
O Heart of kindness, be my justification to God, your Father, and remove from me the threats of his just indignation.
O heart of love, I place all my trust in you, because I fear everything from my malice and weakness, but I hope everything from your goodness; consume in me what can displease you and resist you.
Your pure love is impressed so deeply in my heart that I can never forget you, nor ever be separated from you. I beg you, for your goodness, to grant me that my name is written in your Heart, because I want to make my happiness and my glory consist in living and dying as your slave. Amen.
(This consecration was recommended by our Lord to Saint Margaret Mary).
CONSECRATION OF THE FAMILY
Very sweet heart of Jesus, who made your consoling promise to your great devoted Saint Margaret Mary: "I will bless the houses, in which the image of my Heart will be exposed", deign to accept the consecration that we make of our family, with the which we intend to recognize you as King of our souls and to proclaim the dominion that you have over all creatures and over us.
Your enemies, O Jesus, do not want to recognize your sovereign rights and repeat the satanic cry: We do not want him to reign over us! thus tormenting your most lovable Heart in the most cruel way. Instead, we will repeat to you with greater impetus and greater love: Reign, O Jesus, over our family and over each of the members who make it up; reigns on our minds, because we can always believe the truths you have taught us; reigns on our hearts because we always want to follow your divine commands. Be you alone, divine Heart, the sweet King of our souls; of these souls, whom you have conquered at the price of your precious blood and whom you want all salvation.
And now, Lord, according to your promise, bring your blessings down upon us. Bless our jobs, our businesses, our health, our interests; assist us in joy and pain, prosperity and adversity, now and always. May peace, harmony, respect, mutual love and good example reign among us.
Defend us from dangers, from diseases, from misfortunes and above all from sin. Finally, deign to write our name in the most sacred wound of your Heart and never allow it to be erased again, so that, after being united here on earth, we can one day find ourselves all united in heaven singing the glories and triumphs of your mercy. Amen.