Consecration to the Sacred Heart

As a result of looking at old books, in my spare time, I found these prayers which I picked up when I was in Medjugorje, on the pilgrimage which changed my life.  I now pray these prayers each morning, at the start of my day.  They touch my heart, and I thought they might yours also.

Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

Oh, Jesus, we know that You love us so much that You
have given Your Sacred Heart to us for our salvation.

You have been crowned with thorns because of our sins.
We know that You implore us to have hope in You.
Jesus remember us when we fall into sin.

Through Your most Sacred Heart, make us love all men.

Show us your love, Oh Lord. 
We all love You and ask You to protect us
with Your shepherd’s Heart from any sin.

Knock, keep knocking at the door of our hearts, Oh Lord!
Be patient and persevering with us, Oh Lord!

Our hearts are still closed to You because we
have not understood Your wishes.

Knock continuously!

Oh, Good Jesus, make us open our hearts to You,
and remember how much You have suffered for us.

 

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

Oh, Immaculate Heart of Mary,
filled with kindness, show us your love.

May the flame of your heart, Oh, Mary, descend upon mankind.
We love you with infinite affection.

Imprint into our hearts true love,
so that we may always seek your love.

Oh, Mary, meek and humble of heart,
remember us when we have sinned.
Grant us through your motherly and Immaculate Heart
a healing of all spiritual illness.

Grant that we may always retain the goodness
of your motherly heart; may our hearts be converted to
the love of Jesus through the intercession of the
flame of love that radiates from your heart to us.

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I also might as well share another of the wonderful daily meditations, from Wilfrid Stinissen.

Ask for the Very Best

At times we look like monkeys jumping back and forth from branch to branch, without ever coming to rest.  God doesn’t intend for us to act in this way.  If God were to give in to your wishes and immediately satisfy our desires, we would continue to jump around from one thing to another our whole lives.

God takes his time and waits.  God lets us mature and gain insight into what is most essential.  God knows how much we would lose were he to constantly fulfill our wishes.

Perhaps you ask God to release you from bad habits that you find humiliating.  But God doesn’t want just to cure you from some symptom.  He cuts deeper to find the causes.

God has infinite patience and leads you, step by step, to where he wants you.  With a quiet whisper deep inside, he helps you to discover new dimensions.  Tenderly, God shows just as much as you are presently able to receive.  God always wants more than what you can wish for.  The energy you spend formulating and shaping your own wishes could be used so much more fruitfully by opening yourself up to receive whatever it is God wishes to give.

You have the chance to transform these wishes into prayer.  “Father, you know what is best for me.  Fill my longing with your Holy Spirit.”