From KofC Supreme:
350 years ago this June, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received the last of several private revelations from Jesus, in which he reminded her repeatedly of his boundless love for all. Following her visions, devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart gained popularity throughout the Church, and images of the Sacred Heart remain beloved by Catholics around the world.
To commemorate this anniversary and to lift up our new Holy Father and his intentions in prayer, we invite you to join us in a worldwide novena to the Sacred Heart. We’ll begin June 19 — the anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s ordination to the priesthood — and end June 27, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart.
A Sacred Heart Novena Prayer
O Sacred and adorable Heart of Jesus! Furnace of Eternal charity! Ocean of infinite mercy! Consolation of the afflicted! Refuge of sinners and hope of the whole world! I most fervently adore you, and unite my heart, my affections, and supplications, to the perpetual homage that you render to the divinity on our altars.
Most amiable Heart, which has loved us with an eternal love, supply yourself for my insensibility, and receive my desire at least of loving you with all the ardor and sincerity you so justly merit. But remember, O adorable Heart! that you have not disclosed yourself to us only as an object of our adorations; you desire much more to engage our love, and to become the ground and motive of our loving confidence. For this end, you were pierced through with a lance on the Cross; and for the same purpose you remain a daily victim of your own love on our altars.
O infinitely compassionate Heart of Jesus which was overwhelmed with sorrow in the Garden of Olives, at the view of our spiritual and corporal miseries, I recur of you now with all the confidence you desire I should have in the extent of your power and the riches of your mercy. Convinced that those things which are impossible to human beings are infinitely easy to you, and relying with a humble steadfast faith on the sacred words of truth itself, that whatever we ask the Father in the Name of Jesus should be granted, I now most humbly implore in that adorable Name, in virtue of that promise, and through the abundant mercies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the particular favor I petition for in this Novena: (State your intention).
O blessed Saint Gertrude and all you glorious servants of Christ; who while on earth were particularly devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, join your prayers with mine, and implore from the Divine Object of all your devotion the obtaining of the petition which I now make, and specially offer up through your intercession. Beg likewise, from this adorable Heart, which has dominion over all hearts, and could in a moment change the most stubborn, to have compassion on those who are in the dreadful state of mortal sin, and to open to us the treasure of its mercy at the hour of our death. Amen.
Enthrone Your Home to the Sacred Heart
If you have not already done so, this month of the Sacred Heart it is a great time to enthrone your home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Find out more about the devotion at www.welcomehisheart.com or ask our worthy chaplain, Fr. Dailey, about it.
