Pious exercise to honor the internal pains of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Da Paolo Tessione - July 17, 2019

PIO EXERCISE to honor

the internal pains of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

This devotion began in Guatemala (Central America), by the Mother Incarnation First General of the Bethlehem Sisters daughters of the Holy Heart of Jesus and approved by the Archbishop Mons. Francesco M. Garcia Palaeg.

Its main purpose is to honor the internal pains of the Holy Heart of Jesus and in a special way the ten main and most intimate which are the following:

1. The sight of the Father gravely offended;

2. Idolatry scattered throughout the world;

3. Heresies leading to massacres among the faithful;

4. The schisms that dismember the body of his Holy Church;

5. The apostasy of many bad Christians;

6. Forgetfulness of His benefits and contempt for His graces and sacraments;

7. The coldness and indifference of His towards His painful Passion;

8. The scandals and sacrileges of bad priests; and their neglect in fulfilling the offices of worship;

9. The violation of the vows by her brides;

10. The persecution of the righteous.

To give practical form to this devotion, a group of ten people can be formed by assigning each one an Exercise with the recitation of the corresponding Prayer.

FIRST EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on the Agony of Jesus in the Garden. Offer this exercise for the conversion of the Sinners who with their faults provoke the justice of the Eternal Father. Afterwards, the following prayer will be recited.

PRAYER

Most sorrowful Heart of Jesus, for Your Agony in the Garden and for the pain you felt at seeing the Father seriously offended, I implore You that You offer him my prayer together with Your sufferings, so that all sinners may convert. Amen.

SECOND EXERCISE

Recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on the pain that the Lord felt, on the kiss of the traitor Judas and on the cruel anger with which he was arrested by the Jews. Offer this exercise so that all idolaters know God and embrace our Holy Religion. After recite the following:

PRAYER

Very humble Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt when the traitor Judas gave you the kiss of peace, I beg you to receive my poor prayers that I offer you, so that all the idolaters enter the womb of the Holy Church. Amen.

THIRD EXERCISE

Recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on the slap the Lord received in Anna's house. Offer this exercise for the eradication of heresies. The following is recited

PRAYER

Dearest Heart of Jesus, for the gentleness with which you let yourself be taken and for all that you suffered, mainly when they gave you in Your Divine Face that shameful slap, I pray that heresies will be eradicated and that all heretics will be converted by opening their eyes to light of faith. Amen.

FOURTH EXERCISE

Recite a Pater Noster every day, pondering the blows and outrages that the Lord received in the courts. Offer this exercise for the conversion of schismatics. The following is recited

PRAYER

Dearest Heart of Jesus, I beg you that blows and outrages that you suffered in the Courts, offer them to Your Eternal Father, because, the mystical body of the Holy Church is not dismembered and because the schismatics are converted and no longer hurt your pained Heart. Amen.

FIFTH EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on the pain that the Heart of Jesus felt in the denial of St. Peter and what he suffered all night in that basement. Offer this exercise for those who have abandoned the true Faith to return to it. After, the following is recited

PRAYER

Most pitiful Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt in the denial of St. Peter, have mercy, Lord, on the apostates. Forget their horrendous apostasy. Remember what you suffered on the night of Your Passion. Offer it to the Eternal Father, so that these ungrateful people will leave their crooked path and return to evil, abandoned faith. Amen.

SIXTH EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on what the Heart of Jesus heard upon hearing that the Jews asked to die on the cross! Offer this exercise to warm lukewarm Christians in the service of God. Then recite the following

PRAYER

Very patient Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt in hearing that the Jews (Your beloved portion) asked that I die on the cross, I humbly beg you to forgive us the forgetfulness that we have had of Your benefits and the contempt that we have made of Your Graces and of the sacraments. Have mercy, Lord; pity, mercy! and light our cold heart with Your holy Love. Amen.

SEVENTH EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on what the Heart of Jesus felt, hearing his death sentence! Offer this exercise for the coldness and indifference of Christians to the Passion of Our Lord. After the following is said:

PRAYER

Sweetest Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt when you heard the death sentence (at the thought of which you had shed tears and sweat of blood) and in seeing at the same time, the coldness and indifference of others towards Your painful Passion, I ask you that forget our ingratitude, and offer Your sorrowful Heart to the Father so that Christians may become fervent in thinking and meditating what you have suffered for them. Amen

EIGHTH EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on what the Heart of Jesus felt when they put the cross on His shoulders and made Him walk the way of Calvary. Offer this for priests who are in mortal sin and who cause scandal, and who do not perform duties and liturgical worship with perfection. Recite the following prayer:

PRAYER

O grieved Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt when they placed the enormous weight of the cross on your shoulders and passed through the streets of thankless Jerusalem to go to Calvary, I beg you to look with mercy on the priests who have deviated. It gives them lively repentance and true detestation of the sins, so that they may return to Your Divine Grace and to all give true zeal for Your Glory and for the salvation of souls. Amen.

NINTH EXERCISE

Recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating on what the Heart of Jesus felt when they nailed him on the cross and raised him up, and offer this for the souls, brides of Jesus, who violated their vows, because God forgive them, and say the following

PRAYER

O most loving Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt when they nailed you on the cross, I beg you to forgive the infidelity of your brides and forget you about inconstancy and their betrayals; offer them to Your Eternal Father, so that these senseless ones may come back to themselves. Amen.

TENTH EXERCISE

To recite a Pater Noster every day, meditating when Jesus died on the Cross, saying: In Your hands, Father, I recommend My Spirit! Offer this for the persecuted righteous, so that God may give them strength to patiently suffer labor. Recite the following

PRAYER

O compassionate Heart of Jesus, for the pain you felt in expiring on the Cross saying: "Father, in your hands I recommend My spirit": I beg you to close the persecuted righteous in Your Most Holy Heart: You console them and defend them in their tribulations because they do not lose patience, but for Your Grace they are firm in the trial until they come to sing Your mercies in Heavenly Glory. Amen.