Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ

Sacred Heart devotion 

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of the most widely practiced and well-known wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind".

The devotion is especially concerned with what the church deems to be the long-suffering love and compassion of the heart of Christ towards humanity. The popularization of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a Roman Catholic  through  Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque said she learned the devotion from Jesus during a series of apparitions between 1673 and 1675, and later, in the 19th century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic nun in Portugal, Mary of the Divine Heart, a religious sister of the congregation of the Good Shepherd, who requested in the name of Christ that Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

As Christians we need to adore thy sacred heart, which I desire to enter with acts of love, praise, adoration, and thanksgiving. I offer thee my own heart as I sigh to thee from its very depths, asking that thou will worketh through me in all that I do this day; thus may I draw thee closer to me than before.

There are two elements of devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus; Consecration and Reparation. 

We consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart by acknowledging Him as Creator and Redeemer and as having full rights over us as King of Kings, by repenting, and by resolving to serve Him.

We make reparation for the indifference and ingratitude with which He is treated and for leaving Him abandoned by humanity.

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins, I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to your will. Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you. 

Amen