Devotion to the Sacred Heart every day: 8 February prayer

O most sweet Jesus, whose immense love for men is repaid by us with ingratitude, forgetfulness, contempt and sins, behold, prostrate before you, we intend to make up for this honorable behavior and our many offenses with this honorable fine with which your most lovable Heart is wounded by so many ungrateful children of yours.

Remembering, however, that we too have stained ourselves with similar faults in the past and always experiencing very great pain, we implore, first of all, for us, your mercy, ready to repair, with an adequate expiation, not only the our sins, but also the sins of those who, by trampling on the promises of baptism, have shaken the sweet yoke of your law and like heeled sheep refuse to follow you, shepherd and guide.

While we intend to detach ourselves from the slavery of passions and vices we propose to repair all our sins: the offenses made against you and your divine Father, the sins against your law and against your gospel, the injustices and the sufferings caused to our brothers, the scandals of morals, the pitfalls aimed at innocent souls, the public guilt of nations which conceal the rights of men and which prevent your Church from exercising her saving ministry, the negligence and desecration of your own sacrament of love.

To this end we present to you, O merciful Heart of Jesus, as reparation for all our faults, that infinite atonement that you yourself offered on the cross to your Father and that you renew every day on our altars, uniting it with the atonements of your holy Mother, of all the saints and of the many pious souls.

We intend to repair our sins and those of our brothers, presenting our sincere repentance, the detachment of our heart from any disordered affection, the conversion of our life, the firmness of our faith, faithfulness to your law, the innocence of life and the fervor of charity.

O very kind Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, welcome our voluntary act of reparation. Give us the grace to remain faithful to our commitments, in obedience to you and in service to our brothers. We ask you again for the gift of final perseverance, to be able one day to reach all that blessed homeland, where you reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.