http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/06/02/pope_francis_prayer_intention_for_june/131650
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his video message accompanying his monthly prayer intention for June. This month’s intention is for the elimination of the arms trade.
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Friday, June 2, 2017
VATICAN URGES MUSLIMS TO JOIN 'BELIEVERS IN ONE GOD' TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE IN ANNUAL RAMADAN MESSAGE 02 June 2017 by Sean Smith, The Tablet
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7222/0/vatican-urges-muslims-to-join-believers-in-one-god-to-combat-climate-change-in-annual-ramadan-message
The Vatican has used its annual message to Muslims at the end of Ramadan - the annual month of fasting - to reiterate its commitment to combating climate change just a day after Donald Trump, the US president, withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.
Political and religious leaders have been quick to condemn Trump's announcement from the White House on Thursday that the accord "hamstrings the United States" because it was "less about the climate and more about other countries obtaining a financial advantage over the United States".
In its annual Ramadan message the Vatican said that Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created.
"Our vocation to be guardians of God's handiwork is not optional, nor is it tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: It is an essential part of it," said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
The message - which was dated 19 May but was released at the Vatican today, three weeks before the end of Ramadan on 24 June. Each year, the council for interreligious dialogue publishes a message to the world's Muslims in preparation for the celebration of the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting.
The pontifical council chooses a theme annually to promote dialogue by "offering insights on current and pressing issues." The theme chosen for 2017 was "Caring for Our Common Home," which echoes Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, "Laudato Si'."
"As believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us," Cardinal Tauran and Bishop Ayuso wrote.
Archdiocese of New York Defends Work With Immigrants in Response to Hunger Strike, But Have Not Offered Sanctuary to Undocumented
After activist Félix Cepeda staged a hunger strike denouncing the Catholic Church for not opening its New York houses of worship as “sanctuaries” for immigrants, Executive Director of Catholic Charities Kevin Sullivan responded that the Archdiocese’s parishes, schools and organizations have welcomed immigrants to the Big Apple for more than 200 years.
Last Friday, Cepeda conducted a 24-hour hunger strike in front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, and this Tuesday he repeated his fast, this time outside Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s house.
“Catholic Charities has been at the forefront of this welcoming – protecting and integrating immigrants and refugees in their new homes. The regrettable and inacceptable rhetoric and actions of the past months have compelled Catholic Charities to intensify its efforts to ensure that immigrants and refugees get the support, guidance and protection that they need now more than ever,” said Sullivan.
The monsignor added that the services they provide include legal representation, English classes, job safety training and information on civil rights, as well as help funding proper documents.
As he received the Catholic Charities response, Cepeda said he supports the work the Archdiocese has done in favor of immigrants. However, he pointed out that they have not yet responded directly to his petition of using the churches as “sanctuary.” (…)
Sullivan stressed that they have “intensified services to ensure that immigrants and refugees know that they have a defender, protector, and devout ally in Catholic Charities and the New York Archdiocese.”
(…)
‘Their own church does not protect them’
[Below are excerpts from another story by El Diario’s Camille Padilla Dalmau published on Friday]
Félix Cepeda started a hunger strike in front of Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on May 26, to urge the Archdiocese of New York to open its churches for immigrants facing deportation orders as they wait for their cases to be resolved.
Born in the Bronx of parents who immigrated from the Dominican Republic, Cepeda sent a letter last month to Cardinal Timothy Dolan explaining his request, but the main representative of the Catholic Church in New York has not responded.
“It’s about time for the Catholic Church in New York to declare one of its churches a sanctuary so all of us can protect the immigrants,” said the practicing Catholic and social justice activist, who donned a blue rosary and a T-shirt with the images of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, both religious and civil rights activists.
Around 11 individuals are being sheltered in “sanctuary” churches in New York, but none of them are Catholic, said Cepeda. According to the Pew Research Center, 35 percent of the city’s Catholic community are Hispanic.
“There are Catholic immigrants who have had to go to Protestant churches or Jewish temples because their own church does not protect them,” said Cepeda, sitting on the cathedral’s steps.
(…)
The interfaith, pro-immigrant network New Sanctuary Coalition supports Cepeda’s demands. “It is wrong when a church is not protecting its own congregation,” said the group’s director in New York, Ravi Ragbir, who stressed that the immigrants most at risk of being deported are Catholics from Central America.
Ragbir added that Cepeda’s stance will help “families to remain united” and Catholic immigrants to “live in dignity with the church’s help.”
Cepeda got the support via Facebook Live of Jeanette Vizguerra, the Peruvian immigrant who took refuge for six months in a Denver, Colorado, church. Vizguerra, who left the church days ago after getting a reprieve from the immigration authorities, said: “As comrades, no matter what our situation is, we must support and send solidarity messages to Félix.”
Liturgy for Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community ,Sun City, Florida on Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Elena Garcia ARCWP
(This Feast is celebrated in the Liturgical Calendar on the Friday following the 2nd Sunday
after Pentecost, or 19 days after Pentecost. June 2017, MMOJ Sun City will celebrate this liturgy on June 1, 2017)
Song:
We Will Rise Again: Sung by David Haas
ALL: In the name of our loving God, Source of all
being, Jesus our compassionate Love, and Sophia Holy Spirit who heals us and
calls us to create and build peace. Amen
Presider: God is with you. ALL:
And also with you.
Opening
Prayer
ALL: Loving God, clothe us with the virtues of the Heart of
your Son and set us aflame with his love, that conformed to his image, we may recall
the wonders of His love for us and bask in the overflowing measure of grace
from that font of heavenly gifts. Through our Brother Jesus, who lives and
reigns with you and Sofia Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen
Penitential
Rite
Presider: God of tender compassion, you love us
unconditionally
ALL: Now and forever transform our hearts to love as you love.
Presider:
God of all creation ALL: Now…….
Presider:
God of great compassion ALL: Now……
Presider:
God of tender Mercy ALL: Now……
Presider:
With our hands and voices ALL: Now……
Presider:
With our words of comfort ALL:
Now……
Presider:
With hope and healing ALL:
Now……
Song:
Where Charity and Love Prevail
Where
Charity and Love Prevail, there God is ever found
Brought
here together by Christ’s love, by love are we thus bound.
With
grateful joy and holy fear God’s charity we learn: Let us with
heart
and mind and soul now love God in return.
Forgive
us now each other’s faults as we our faults confess; and let us
love
each other well in Christian holiness.
Liturgy
of The Word
First Reading: From Blessed Mary MacKillop-21 June
1907
Towards
the end of her life Mary MacKillop sent to her sisters a reflection on her own
spiritual experience in the form of “An Appeal of the Sacred Heart to a Weary,
Disappointed Soul.”
In it
she reveals that it was the tender, loving Heart of Jesus that spoke to her and
brought her to such peace and joy in his service. She concluded her reflection
in these words. “And with this burning appeal came such a longing desire on my
part to be Its lover and own true child that, in a glance, the falseness of the
world appeared to me. The beauty, the pity, and the generosity of the Sacred
Heart in this loving appeal could not be resisted. And in it I have never known
aught but true peace and contentment of heart. Its love makes suffering sweet.
Its love makes the world a desert. When storms rage, when persecutions or
dangers threaten, I quietly creep into Its abyss, and securely sheltered there,
my soul is in peace, though my body is tossed upon the stormy waves of a cold
and selfish world.
These
were the inspired words of Bl. Mary MacKillop.
ALL: Thanks be to God.
Response:
From The People’s Companion to the Breviary
Your Love, Holy Mystery is Eternal
Your compassion is eternal and your love is
everlasting.
Your love……
Your faithfulness is renewed each day.
You love…….
Your promise
is life everlasting. Your love……
2nd Reading: Eph
3:8-12,14-19
To me, the least of all believers, was
given the grace to preach to the gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,
and to enlighten all people on the mysterious design which for ages was hidden
in God, the Creator of all. Now, therefore through the church, God’s manifold
wisdom is made known to the rulers and powers of heaven, in accord with the
age-old design, carried out in Christ Jesus our Savior, in whom we have
boldness and confident access to God through our faith in Christ. That is why I
kneel before Abba God, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its
name. And I pray that God, out of the riches of divine glory, will strengthen
you with inward power through the working of the Spirit. May Christ dwell in
your hearts through faith, so that you being rooted and grounded in love, will
be able to grasp fully the breadth, length, height and depth of Christ’s love,
and with all God’s holy ones, experience this love that surpasses all
understanding, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
The
word of God.
ALL:
Thanks be to God.
Gospel Acclamation: All Sing: Glory to
God, Glory O praise God Alleluia. Glory to God Glory O praise the name of our
God.2x
Gospel Reading: John: 10:11-18
I am
the good shepherd. A good shepherd would die for the sheep. The hired hand, who
is neither shepherd nor owner of the sheep, catches site of the wolf coming and
runs away, leaving the sheep to be scattered or snatched by the wolf. That’s
because the hired hand works only for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I
am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me, in the same way
Abba God knows me and I know God--- and for these sheep I will lay down my
life. I have other sheep that don’t belong to this fold--------I must lead them
too, and they will hear my voice. And then there will be one flock and one
shepherd. This is why Abba God loves me –because I lay down my life only to
take it up again. No one takes my life from me; I lay it down freely. I have
the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up again. This command
I received from my Abba. The Good
news of Jesus our Brother.
All: Glory and Praise to you Jesus the Christ
All Sing Glory to God Glory……….1x
Shared Homily
“The Heart of Christ in the writings of
Teilhard De Chardin” by Robert Faricy, SJ
In the
real symbol of the heart of Christ, detachment and progress, prayer and action,
love for God and love for the world are reconciled. The Sacred Heart no longer
stands only for the love of Jesus for us, but also for the unifying meaning and
force of that love as it unites and gives greater meaning to all our best
hopes, aspirations and efforts. By the time of his 1939 retreat, Teilhard sees
the heart of Jesus Christ risen as the heart of him who stands as the Omega of
Teilhard’s Christology, the heat of him who draws all things to himself as the
future focus of all evolution’s convergence. In an essay of 1940, Teilhard
explains how his concept of the universal Christ is “born from an expansion of
the heart of Jesus.” And in the 1940s and 1950s Teilhard describes Jesus’ heart
as the heart of the Heart of the world, and the center of the Center of the
universe.
What did you hear today in the
readings? A call? A challenge?
How simple or complex is your relationship
with the Heart of Jesus?
What virtues do you want to enhance in
your life through the Heart of Jesus?
Profession
of Faith
ALL: We believe in a God of extravagant love, who dwells within
us, rejoices with us in our blessed selves and who weeps with us in our
struggles, hopes, loses and sufferings.
We believe that we are one with all creatures great and small in a
dynamic evolving cosmos. We believe in
Jesus whose life, death and resurrection shows us how to live fully in the joy
of his love while serving our brothers and sisters, especially the outcasts and
heavy burdened. We believe in Sofia,
Spirit Wisdom, who works through us for justice and peace and who strengthens
us to stand against oppression of all kinds whether based on gender, age,
sexual orientation, race or class, without exception. We believe that we are called to live in mutual
respect as disciples and equals in inclusive communities of empowerment. We believe that we are forgiven, healed and
whole in the heart of the Divine Mercy.
We believe that we are united forever with all who have gone before us
in the communion of saints. AMEN
General
Intersessions
Presider:
Insults have broken my
heart, I looked for comforters, but I found none.
In loving
response we pray: ALL: By your wounds we are healed
Jesus you
forgave those who crucified you:
ALL- - - Give us the grace to put no
limits on our forgiveness of others.
You loved
sinners and helped them to change their lives.
ALL- - - Give us the patience and understanding when we
strive to help those who harm themselves and others.
Your love is
everlasting; you never cease to call us to salvation
ALL- - -Give us the wisdom and
generosity to follow you and to draw others to your heart.
A soldier pierced your heart with a
lance
ALL- - - Open our hearts to the wonders
of your love and to the challenge of your gospel.
You call to
us to "Come to me all you who are burdened and weary of heart….”
ALL: We bring before you all those
concerns that remain in the silence of our hearts where we will find comfort,
healing and strength for the journey.
Presider: Christ Jesus, you draw us to
salvation with the loving heart of a friend. Teach us to find rest for our
spirits in the way of humility and meekness. Set our hearts ablaze with zeal
for the coming of your reign, fullness of life, both now and
for all eternity. ALL: Amen
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
Presider: Jesus who has often sat at our
tables, now invites us to partake at his family table.
ALL: O God of extravagant love we, your people who live in
the joy of that love, are united in this sacrament by our common love of Jesus.
We are in communion with everyone everywhere, who shares your gift of love,
especially all those who are marginalized and oppressed. May we love tenderly,
do justice and walk humbly with you in solidarity with our sisters and brothers
everywhere. May we live as prophetic witnesses to the Gospel of Jesus,
supported by the vision that directed him, and the wisdom of the Spirit who
enkindles in us the fire of your love. AMEN
Presider: Blessed are you God, Source of all being,
through your goodness we have this bread, wine, all creation, and our own lives
to offer. Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation. ALL: BLESSED BE GOD FOREVER.
Presider: God is with
us, loving and healing through us. ALL: NAMASTE
Presider: Lift up
your hearts. ALL: WE LIFT THEM UP IN
TENDER LOVE, OPEN TO SERVE.
Presider: Let us give
thanks to our God. All: IT
IS OUR JOY TO GIVE GOD THANKS AND PRAISE
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
VOICE ONE: Gracious Wisdom, You embraced us with
extravagant affection in our blessedness and brokenness. We thank you that in
this festive meal of unending delight, your Spirit continues to be poured out
among this circle of disciples. Yes, we are gathered here to give, receive
forgiveness, and offer each other the gift of your peace/shalom. Filled with the joy of being loved by you we
join with the angels and saints and people of every race, faith and nation to
glorify your presence as we sing:
ALL SING:
WE ARE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY…3X WE ARE WHOLE
YOU ARE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY…3X YOU ARE WHOLE
I AM HOLY, HOLY, HOLY….3X I AM WHOLE
WE ARE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY…3X WE ARE WHOLE
VOICE TWO: Gracious God in this moment we celebrate your
indescribable love for your evolving cosmos. Here your divine compassion
connects us to the young, the old, the least and the last, to everyone
everywhere on our journey into your heart of mercy.
VOICE THREE: We especially thank
you for Jesus, your anointed, who shows us how to love with a peaceful and
courageous spirit. In Jesus you show us how to care for those who face illness
and grief and how to help those who experience rejection, slavery and
marginalization. Jesus preached the good news to the poor, release to the
captives, recovery of sight to the blind and healing to the broken. Jesus
called women to be apostles and disciples and treated them as equals in his
circle of companions.
VOICE FOUR: In response to
people’s sufferings, Jesus broke rules and violated religious taboos. He shared
meals with women, saved a woman from being stoned and said that prostitutes
would enter heaven before religious leaders. He challenged the priestly class
and political leaders of his time and so they ridiculed, tortured and put him
to death. His life, death and resurrection shows us how to live freely and
joyously in the midst of injustice, darkness, evil and death.
(PLEASE ALL EXTEND
HANDS AS WE RECITE THE EPICLESIS AND CONSECRATION TOGETHER)
ALL: MAY YOUR SPIRIT, PRESENT IN THESE GIFTS AND IN US, FILL US WITH A NEW
OUTPOURING OF LOVE THAT MAKES US MORE DEEPLY ONE BODY IN THE COSMIC CHRIST
LIVING THE FULLNESS OF YOUR COMPASSION.
PRESIDER: On the
night before he was betrayed, Jesus gathered with his friends for a meal. He
took bread into his hands broke it and said:
ALL: TAKE THIS ALL OF
YOU, AND EAT IT. THIS BREAD IS YOU; THIS BREAD IS ME. WE ARE ONE BODY. DO THIS
IN MEMORY OF ME.
PRESIDER: In the same
way after supper, Jesus took the cup, raised it with love beyond all telling,
gave thanks, and sharing the cup with those at table he said:
ALL: TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND
DRINK FROM IT. THIS IS THE CUP OF MY LIFE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND EVERLASTING
COVENANT WHICH WILL BE SHED FOR EVERYONE. EVERYTIME YOU DRINK OF IT, REMEMBER
ME.
PRESIDER: Jesus who was with God “in the beginning of
the creation of the heavens and the earth” is now with us now in this bread and
this cup. Now then, in sacred memory let us proclaim the mystery of our faith.
ALL: IN EVERY
CREATURE THAT HAS EVER BREATHED, WE SEE YOUR TENDERNESS; IN EVERY LIVING BEING
THAT HAS PASSED ON BEFORE US WE SEE YOUR GOODNESS; IN EVERYTHING YET TO BE
CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN! IN OUR BREAKING OF THE BREAD OF EARTH, CHRIST OF THE
COSMOS IS BEING RE-MEMBERED! WE LIVE IN THE JOY OF BEING LOVED BY OUR EXTRAVAGANT
GOD!
VOICE FIVE: Holy One, your
transforming energy is always moving within us and working through us. We give
thanks for all holy women and men who have been your face in our lives. They
show us how to forgive self and other, let go of guilt and refrain from judging
others and see the good in people who irritate us. Let us pause to remember and
name some of these holy women and men aloud or in the silence of our hearts.
VOICE SIX: God who opens doors
and melts hearts of stone, enlighten our religious ministers and political
leaders. May they welcome refugees, transform poverty into plenty and work for
human dignity and justice for all. We
pray for Francis, our Pope, Bridget Mary, our Bishop and all God’s holy people.
VOICE SEVEN: We remember those who
are sick and suffering. May they be healed and strengthened, and filled with
every blessing in your loving presence. We remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary
of Magdala, Peter, Paul, Junia, our patron saints and all the saints and angels
who surround us with loving prayers each day. We remember our loved ones and
all those who have died in your embrace.
ALL: THROUGH CHRIST,
WITH CHRIST, IN CHRIST, IN THE UNITY OF SPIRIT WISDOM, ALL PRAISE AND GLORY ARE
YOURS, LOVING GOD FOREVER AND EVER.
THE GREAT AMEN 3X
ALL: (HOLDING HANDS) OUR FATHER AND MOTHER WHO ARE IN
HEAVEN, BLESSED IS YOUR NAME, YOUR…….
ALL: GOD WE HAVE JUST PRAYED THAT YOUR KINDOM MAY COME
UPON US. GRANT THAT WE MAY OPEN OUR EARS TO HEAR IT, OUR HANDS TO SERVE IT, AND
OUR HEARTS TO MAKE IT REAL.
THE SIGN OF PEACE
Presider: Jesus, you said to your disciples, “My peace
I leave you, my peace I give you. “Look on the faith of those gathered here
and…….
ALL: …. GRANT US YOUR PEACE. O GOD, FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE
OF JESUS AND WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE SPIRIT, HELP US SPREAD THAT PEACE
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, TO EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, NO EXCEPTIONS. AMEN
Presider: May the
peace of God be always with us, and now let us extend that peace to one
another.
LITANY FOR THE
BREAKING OF THE BREAD
Presider: Loving
God….
ALL: YOU CALL US
TO SPIRIT-FILLED SERVICE AND TO LIVE THE GOSPEL OF NON-VIOLENCE FOR PEACE AND
JUSTICE. WE WILL LIVE JUSTLY.
PRESIDER: Loving God….
ALL: YOU CALL US TO BE YOUR PRESENCE IN THE WORLD AND TO
BE BEARERS OF UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING EVERYWHERE
IN YOUR NAME. WE WILL LOVE TENDERLY.
PRESIDER: Loving God….
ALL: YOU CALL US TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. WE WILL WALK HUMBLY WITH YOU.
Presider: This is
Jesus, who calls us to open doors that are closed and share our bread on the
altar of the world. All are invited to eat and drink at this sacred banquet of
love. ALL: JESUS WE ARE WORTHY TO
RECEIVE YOU AND TO BE YOUR COMPASSION IN OUR WORLD. WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST.
Presider: Let us share the Body of Christ with
the Body of Christ! ALL: AMEN
COMMUNION— Song You are Mine- David Haas- Listen
All sing the refrain: Do not be afraid I am with you. I
have called you each by name. Come and
follow me I will bring you home; I love you and you are mine.
Prayers of
Thanksgiving
PRAYER AFTER
COMMUNION
Presider: O God of
Extravagant Love, Jesus showed us how to love one another and heal our hearts.
Through the power of your liberating Spirit at work within us, we will give and
receive forgiveness, live joyously, and work for healing, justice and equality
for our earth and for all God’s holy people.
All: AMEN
CONCLUDING RITE
PRESIDER: Our God is
with you. ALL: AND ALSO WITH YOU
COMMUNITY BLESSING (EVERYONE PLEASE EXTEND YOUR HANDS IN MUTUAL
BLESSING)
ALL: MAY THE GOD OF SARAH AND ABRAHAM
THE BLESSED ONE OF JACOB AND RACHEL,
AND SOPHIA, HOLY WISDOM, WALK
WITH US AND ALL CREATED LIFE
ON OUR JOURNEY INTO MYSTICAL UNION
WITH THE HEART OF OUR GOD OF
EXTRAVAGANT LOVE.
DISMISSAL
Presiders: Let us go
and live in the joy of being loved. All:
THANKS BE TO GOD
The Sacred Heart in the Scriptures
The Lord revealed himself to the
chosen people as an act of love. Our Jewish brothers and sisters are
distinguished by the love God revealed to them and by the love the chosen
people were called upon to show to God. This exchange of love is the energy
source which drives the covenant. As Christians, we consider ourselves God’s
adopted children whom Jesus embraced universally.
Note that the Scripture uses the
phrase the Lord set his heart on you and chose you (Deuteronomy 7:7).
The image of God setting his heart upon us is powerful. To set one’s heart
defines an act of will to choose to love. Our faithfulness to God is a return
of love:
Understand, then, that the Lord,
your God, is God indeed, the faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant down
to the thousandths generation toward those who love him and keep his
commandments… (Deuteronomy 7:10). The covenant is
defined by this exchange of love.
St. Paul states this directly:
Whoever is without love does not
know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us God
sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In
this is love…No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains
in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us (1 John:4:8-9, 16). God’s act of sacrificing His Son to us was
love. Jesus’ entire ministry preached love. Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross was
the ultimate act of love. Christ’s sacraments are outward expressions of His
loving embrace. The Church embodies Christ’s love and is the conduit through
which we grow in love.
The heart of Jesus is also
“pierced” by our sins, as the facts about His crucifixion attest: But one of
the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water
came out. (John 19:34) This blood and water poured out like a flood — so
much more than what one human heart can hold. This image helps us understand
Divine Mercy — the pouring out of heavenly grace in a great flood that wipes
away all our sins. This is the ultimate love.
Jesus also tells us that to love
involves gentleness, humility, and ultimately suffering. Our hearts get broken;
and as they experience breaks, we enter into the Passion of our Lord. He heals
our brokenness; and, in the process, He expands our ability to love.
These sufferings, Jesus tells us, gradually lighten our hearts. As our
hearts become more at one in His Sacred Heart, He lifts away our burdens: Take
my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you
will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light (Matthew 11:29-30).
Devotions to the Sacred Heart
Devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart
took specific liturgical form in the early 1000s, and St. Margaret Mary
Alacoque popularized this devotion after a
series of revelations in the mid 17th century. The point of all these devotions
is best captured in this refrain to a Rosary-like prayer sequence to the Sacred Heart: Jesus most meek, make my heart like unto Thine.
In addition to having an image of
the Sacred Heart in your home, you should begin your day with an Offering to
Jesus’ Sacred Heart:
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Our mother Miriam, I
offer You my prayers, works, joys and suffering, hardships and inconveniences
of this day for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy
Celebration of the Mass throughout the world, in reparation for my sins, for
the intentions of all those associated with me throughout my lifetime, for
those on my prayer plate_____names_________ and for peace throughout the world.
You should participate in the Nine
First Friday Devotions, which bring abundant graces to you and to your
family, as well as great assurance in our passage to eternal life. This
involves attending Mass on the First Friday of nine consecutive months, going
to Confession, praying an act of consecration, and praying in Adoration before
the Blessed Sacrament. Learn more about First Friday Devotions.
Prayer to the Sacred Heart
O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain
of every blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins
I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly
obedient to your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you.
Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health
of body, assistance in my temporal needs, your blessing on all that I do, and
the grace of a holy death. Amen.
May your heart grow in love as you
cleave to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
This prayer will bring you closer to Jesus. You too can rest your
head upon the heart of Jesus and learn from his generous love.
The Prayer to the Sacred Heart
Oh Lord Jesus Christ, to Your Most Sacred Heart
I confide this intention {name petition}. Only look upon me, then do what Your
love inspires. Let Your Sacred Heart decide. I count on You. I trust in You. I
throw myself on Your mercy. Lord Jesus, You will not fail me.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You. Sacred
Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your
kingdom come. Sacred Heart of Jesus, I have asked You for many favors, but I
earnestly implore this one. Take it, place it in Your open Heart.
When the Eternal Father looks upon it, He will see it covered with
Your Precious Blood. It will be no longer my prayer, but Yours, Jesus. Sacred
Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. Let me not be disappointed. Amen.
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