Prayer to consecrate oneself to Jesus ... way, truth and life

 

O most sweet Jesus, O Redeemer of mankind, look humbly before us before your altar. We are yours and we want to be; and in order to be able to live more closely together with you, each one of us spontaneously consecrates himself to your Most Sacred Heart today.

Unfortunately, many never knew you; many, by despising your commandments, repudiated you. O most kind Jesus, have mercy and one and the other; and all of you attract to your most holy Heart.

O Lord, be the king not only of the faithful who never went away from you, but also of those prodigal children who abandoned you; let them return to their father's home as soon as possible, so as not to die of poverty and hunger. Be the king of those who live in the deception of error or by discord separated from you: call them back to the port of truth and to the unity of faith, so that in short a single sheepfold is made under one shepherd. Finally be the king of all those who are wrapped in the superstitions of gentilesism, and do not refuse to draw them from darkness to the light and the kingdom of God.

Broaden, O Lord, safety and secure freedom to your Church, spread to all peoples the tranquility of order: let this one voice ring from one end of the earth to the other: praise that divine Heart from which the our health; glory and honor be sung to him over the centuries. So be it.

Pope Leo XIII