Prayer to the Wounded Heart of Jesus
O my Most Loving and Gentle Jesus, I desire with all
the affections of my heart, that all beings created and
uncreated, should praise Thee, honor Thee and glorify
Thee eternally for that Sacred Wound wherewith Thy
Divine side was rent. I deposit, enclose, conceal in that
wound and in that opening in Thy Heart, my heart and
all my feelings, thoughts, desires, intentions
and all the faculties of my soul.
I entreat Thee, by the Precious Blood and Water that flowed
from Thy Most Loving Heart, to take entire possession of me,
that Thou may guide me in all things.
Consume me in the burning fire of Thy Holy Love,
so that I may be so absorbed and transformed
into Thee that I may no longer be but one
with Thee. Amen.
Act of Contrition to the Sacred Heart
MOST Sacred and Adorable Heart of Jesus!
humbly and with contrite heart I prostrate myself before Thee,
bitterly bewailing that I was remiss
in Thy love and have offended Thee
by my ingratitude and unfaithfulness,
thereby becoming unworthy of the manifestations of Thy love. Filled with confusion and fear,
I can but say,
"I have sinned against Thee, I have sinned!"
Most Amiable and Divine Heart,
have mercy on me,
though I do not deserve mercy.
Reject me not, but reveal, rather,
I beseech Thee, the excess of Thy mercy by granting me,
a poor sinner,
who appears before Thee
in the abyss of his nothingness and misery,
pardon for my sins.