Prayers for the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690) was a Visitation nun at Paray-le-Monial in France. Between 1673 and 1675 Our Lord showed her His Heart, burning with love for mankind and wounded by indifference, and asked for the devotions we still keep: the Holy Hour, Communion of reparation on First Fridays, and a feast of the Sacred Heart. Pope Benedict XV canonized her in 1920, and her memorial is October 16.
Below are the three prayers of her Mass from an older English missal: the collect, the prayer over the gifts, and the prayer after Communion. They ask for her deepest desires: to love Jesus above all things, to be set on fire by the love of His Heart, and to put on His meekness and humility.
The Prayer
Collect: O Lord Jesus Christ, who unto the holy Virgin Margaret didst in a wondrous manner reveal the infinite riches of Thy Heart: do Thou by her merits grant that we, loving Thee after her example in all things and above all things, may obtain an everlasting abode in that self-same Heart of Thine. Who livest and reignest, world without end. Amen. Secret: May the gifts of Thy people be accepted by Thee, O Lord: and grant that we may be inflamed by that divine fire which, coming from the Heart of Thy Son, burnt fiercely within blessed Margaret. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. Postcommunion: Do Thou, we beseech Thee, O Lord Jesus, by the intercession of the holy Virgin Margaret, grant unto us, who have partaken of the Mysteries of Thy Body and Blood, that stripping ourselves of the proud vanities of the world, we may become worthy to put on the meekness and humility of Thy Heart. Who livest and reignest, world without end. Amen.
St. Margaret Mary, pray for us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.
Pray her own Little Consecration in our Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, and the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Sources: Collect, Secret, and Postcommunion of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque from The Roman Missal Adapted to the Use of the Laity (London, c. 1920 edition, Jesuit appendix). Public domain.
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