Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart
Updated: Oct 3
Between 1673 and 1675, Our Lord appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun at Paray-le-Monial in France, showing her His Heart burning with love for mankind and asking for a devotion of love and reparation. This act of consecration, which comes from her writings, gives everything to the Sacred Heart: our person, our life, our actions, and our sufferings, so that our whole being may be used to love and glorify Him.
Pray it on the Feast of the Sacred Heart (the Friday after the second Sunday after Pentecost), on First Fridays, during June, the month of the Sacred Heart, or as part of an enthronement of the Sacred Heart in your home. Many people renew it every morning. It is a prayer of complete trust, so pray it slowly and mean each phrase.
The Prayer
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honoring, and glorifying Thee. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee. I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death. Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite goodness. Destroy in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Stamp Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee. I implore Thee, by Thy infinite goodness, that my name may be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in Thee I desire to place all my happiness and glory, living and dying in bondage to Thee. Amen.
Sources: Traditional Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart (St. Margaret Mary tradition in PD manuals), public domain.
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