A NOVENA and the riches of Thy mercy.
TO THE SACRED HEART Convinced that those things
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 Thee,
and unite my heart,
my affections,
and supplications,
to the perpetual homage Thou Thyself
renderest
to the Divinity on our Altars.
Most amiable Heart,
which hast loved us with an eternal
love,
supply Thyself for my insensibility,
and receive my desire at least of
loving Thee
with all the ardour and sincerity
Thou so justly meritest.
But remember, O adorable Heart!
that Thou hast not disclosed Thyself
to us
only as an object of our adorations;
Thou desirest much more to engage
our love,
and to become the ground
and motive of our loving confidence.
For this end,
Thou wert pierced through with a
lance on the Cross;
and for the same purpose Thou
remainest
a daily Victim of Thine 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 Thee now with all the
confidence Thou desirest
I should have in the extent of Thy
power
which are impossible to human beings
are infinitely easy to Thee,
and relying with an 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 favour I petition for
in this Novena.
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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 obdurate,
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.