Reparation to the Sacred Heart
Index
(The desire of Our Lord)
(Prayer of Expiation)
(An Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart)
(Act of Contrition to the Sacred Heart)
(Novena of Reparation)
The Desire of Our Lord
THAT it is the desire of our Lord that men should make reparation to Him is abundantly clear from the revelations which He made to Saint Margaret Mary. Seventy apparitions of the Sacred Heart were vouchsafed to the favoured Sister of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, and many of them are concerned with this subject. From the very beginning of her religious life our Lord had explained to her with what great love He had delivered Himself up to save the human race and to restore to mankind the Divine life lost through Original Sin, and how ill the human race had treated Him in return. Sin abounds, and Jesus begs for a little love. He asks her whether she would be willing to suffer all the pains that sinners would deserve to suffer, and He tells her that she is to devote herself to the work of saving these ungrateful wretches. But how was she, a contemplative, to do this work?
The answer came: "It is only by the sacrifice of a victim that the Divine justice can be appeased."
"What is it, then," she asked, "that so outrages the Divine justice?"
"Sin," came the answer, "especially secret sins." She asks no further, and without more ado professes her willingness to suffer, that she may be like Him Whom she loves. "My daughter," Christ asks again, "wilt thou give Me thy heart so that My suffering love, spurned by the world, may find repose?"
"See," He said on another occasion, "how sinners treat Me with contempt." It was of a sacrilegious Communion that He spoke, and He showed her what a terrible thing it was. At other times it was not for sacrilegious Communions but for tepid reception of the Eucharist that she was asked to offer her love in compensation; or at Carnival; for the shocking excesses that are often committed at that time. Then there was the lack of correspondence to grace, all the resistance to Divine love; in a certain monastery he showed her five religious whose fervour was diminishing; in her own monastery there was a waning generosity; at another time she is asked to offer herself for the whole community.
But it is especially for the sins of the "chosen ones" that our Lord asks Margaret Mary to offer her tender reparation. He returns to this again and again. "One day," she relates, ''as I was rising from bed I seemed to hear a voice saying: 'The Lord is weary of waiting. He will go into His barns to winnow his corn and separate the good grain from the bad.' As I was about to turn away I heard the voice again: 'My chosen people is persecuting Me in secret and they have outraged my justice.' Showing me His loving Heart, all torn and pierced with wounds, 'Behold,' said He, 'the wounds that I receive from My chosen people. Others are content to strike My body; these attack My Heart. . . . My love will at length give place to My just wrath. . . . They are religious only in name."
"During this time," adds the Saint, "I was unceasingly asking of God a real conversion for all these souls against whom the Divine justice was incensed, offering to Him the merits of my Saviour in satisfaction for the insults committed against Him; offering myself also to His Divine goodness to suffer all the pains that He might wish . . . rather than see the loss of these souls that had cost Him so dear." "On another occasion," the Saint tells us, "our Lord showed Himself to me covered with wounds, His body all bleeding and His Heart torn with grief; He seemed overcome with fatigue. I threw myself at His feet, filled with a great fear, and I dared not say a word to Him. He said to me : 'Behold to what I am reduced by My chosen people whom I had called to appease My justice, and they persecute Me in secret. If they do not mend their ways I will punish them severely; I will withdraw the good, and the rest I will devote to My just wrath, which will flame up against them.' . . . I cannot say how I suffered to hear these words."
On another occasion, after Holy Communion, He appeared to her in the guise of the "Ecce Homo " and said to her: "If you only knew who have placed Me in this state. . . . Five persons consecrated to my service." "I offered Him my heart," says the Saint, "the heart that He had given me, that He might have rest. In His fatigue He came to me, when I had a moment's leisure, bidding me kiss His wounds to alleviate the pain." It was often during her thanksgiving after Holy Communion that Margaret Mary was called upon by our Lord to undertake the hard task of reparation: "One day, after Holy Communion, He showed me a rough crown made of nineteen very sharp thorns which pierced His Divine head; this caused me such grief that I could not speak for weeping. He said He had come to me that I might take out these thorns which had been thrust into Him by a faithless spouse. 'She pierces My head with a thorn,' He said, 'every time that she prefers herself to Me by an act of pride.' I knew not how to take out the thorns; and so I had this sight continually before my eyes, which made me suffer very bitterly. My Superior told me to ask our Lord how to take them out; He said that I might do it by an equal number of acts of humility done in memory of His humiliations. . . . I asked the Superior to offer to our Lord the acts of humility of the Community, and this pleased Him very much; for three days later he showed me three thorns of which He was almost relieved; but the rest remained for a long time afterwards."
As if this earnest request were not enough, our Lord repeated His invitation again and again. The Saint was ready enough to fulfill the desires of her Divine Master. It was not for her sake, but for ours, that His prayer was so insistent. "While before the Blessed Sacrament one day during the Octave of the Feast of Corpus Christi (1675), I received from God some extraordinary graces of His love. . . . Showing me His Heart He said: 'Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, has emptied itself and died to show them its love; and in return I receive for the most part only ingratitude in the insults, the acts of irreverence, the sacrileges and the coldness that men show towards Me in this Sacrament. But what hurts me more is that the hearts which are consecrated to me treat me so.' " And our Lord asked her to compensate for all this.
The apparition which reassumes all the others is thus described by the Saint. It was a day of Exposition: Our Lord appeared "resplendent in glory, with His five wounds shining like so many suns. . . . From His sacred Humanity flames proceeded in every direction, and especially from His breast, which was like a furnace." His breast opened and there appeared "His loving and lovable Heart which was the living source from which these flames proceeded." . . . The Saviour manifested to the prostrate girl "the inexplicable wonders of His pure love, and the excess to which He had carried His love for men." But unfortunately in return He received from men nothing but "ingratitude and disdain." This was more painful to Him than all that He had suffered during His Passion. "In like manner," He added, "if they would but give Me a little love in return I would count as little all that I have done for them, and would even, were it possible, do more; but they meet all my efforts to do them good with coldness and disdain."
Surely such unrequited love calls for a love to restore the balance. Our Lord opens His heart on the subject to His beloved servant. "You at least," he says, "please make up for their ingratitude as far as you are able." And as poor Margaret Mary protests that she is weak, He says: "See, this will make up your deficiencies "; and He showed her His Heart, from which came forth so burning a flame that she felt that she was consumed by it. Unable to bear it any longer she asks Him to take pity on her: "I will be your strength," He replied.
These famous scenes deserve to be remembered in their entirety; but I will call attention only to two points. A great love has won salvation for us; this love is disdained, and we must make compensation. This infinite love calls for love in return; and the creature refuses to give it. Hence souls of good will must love "enough for two," first for themselves and then for those who refuse to love.
Here we have in its simplest form, and derived from history itself, from real facts, the true and proper notion of reparation. It may be put in three words: I; they; you. I; my love has not spared itself. They; I have come into their house, and they have shown me the door; they take no more notice of me than as if I were not there. You; you at least make up for their deficiencies, compensate for their ingratitude as far as you
are able. The whole of reparation, therefore, can be expressed in those three words: "I, they, you." They are like a cry of distress on the lips of our afflicted Master; and they echo in the heart of the sympathetic disciple, now with a note of mortal sadness, now as a triumphant invitation to an unstinted generosity, to a love that knows no bounds.
That the sin and ingratitude which called for reparation have particular reference to the Eucharist may be seen from the fact that our Lord Himself appears on the altar in the Mass as a Victim, also , from His frequent requests that reparation should be made for the sacrileges and the indifference with which He meets in this Sacrament, and finally from the explicit request of the Saviour-----to which we shall return later-----that men should compensate Him , by means of the Eucharist. In fact our Lord says that in connection with this Sacrament there is much sin and ingratitude: "In answer to all My efforts for their good I receive only coldness and rebuffs." He speaks also of "ingratitude" and "disdain."
Ingratitude means certainly the sins of "the good." "Disdain" and "insults," are rather the sins of the wicked. Both are abundant, today as in the time of Margaret Mary. Everywhere we see the sins of the wicked: hatred of religion, the fury of persecution, immorality, injustice, cruelty, the mad love of pleasure.
Think of the hatred of religion shown in Mexico or among the Bolshevists: the Church persecuted, her members arraigned and sometimes put to death. Think of the many countries in which the attack upon Christ, though less bloodthirsty, is no less determined: godless legislation, immorality, conscienceless judges, literature that sows the seeds of immorality broadcast without any check from authority or objection from the public; philosophy and science vying with each other in the work of perverting men's minds; children's souls at the mercy of teachers whose avowed object is to inculcate class hatred; and this without any protest from the constituted authorities. "We have today to create a generation of hatred. Like the tick of the clock that marks the seconds as they pass, this is the refrain that must echo in the minds of the children of the poor, and prepare them for revolt: 'Rich, poor, rich, poor, rich, poor. . . .' Like drops of water these words will inevitably one day fill the vials of wrath and make them overflow."
And, dominating this cry of hate, there is the universal mania for pleasure in every rank of society, from the joys of the lowest cinema or
dancing hall to the more exquisite but more insidious delights of the great casinos and theatres.
In his novel, The Beast on the Altar, the title is but too well chosen-----Jean Rameau writes: "It is the duty of every decent man who desires the salvation of his country to muzzle this beast once more, this beast that has always existed, has always prowled round human society, but has never reared its head so high as now. Every sensible government in every age has done its best to chain it down; our governments, for the last half-century, seek only to give it greater freedom to roam the earth. All our modern laws seem conceived in order to glorify and strengthen it. All the old laws which bound and checked it have been rendered ineffective. The only rules enforced today are those which favour it, the only things allowed are those that do it honour. The books with the biggest sales are those that celebrate it, the works of art most admired are those that please it. Hundreds of speeches are delivered, hundreds of ceremonies are held, to do honour to the beast."
If you want more exact evidence, look at the papers and you will find these glorious figures. In the year of grace 1926 in a certain town the receipts of a certain gaming house were 51 million, 18 million more than in the previous year; in another place the receipts of the casinos rose in three years from 152 to 380 million; in a certain capital, immoral houses received 1,200,000 visitors in twelve months. Immoral publications thrive and are sold widely; and in one cinema it was proposed to charge 1200 francs a seat, with champagne obligatory at 200 francs a bottle, to see six licentious films. Nor can it be said that one place is much worse than another. What town or country, what capital of any nation can claim to have escaped the wave of immorality? Can London, Madrid, Paris or Vienna claim to be immune? This is not the time for hypocrisy, but for a humble and serious self-examination.
It is calculated that the human race spends 88,250 million francs on its pleasures in one year. Compare this with the miserable 100 million-----at the most-----that are garnered yearly by such works as the Association for the Propagation of the Faith and the Holy Childhood. Two dancers who wanted to go for a pleasure trip to a seaside place, scorning the ordinary means of transit, thought nothing of chartering a special train for the purpose; it cost them 23,000 francs. That sum would have given a month's holiday to hundreds of poor children. Such waste would be a crime, if it were not simply madness.
More culpable, because more willful, is the revolt of pride at the present day. "What we must chiefly safeguard," says one of the leaders of the movement, "what man has gained in spite of prejudice and at the cost of suffering and strife, is the idea that no truth is sacred, that is, that no truth is immune from man's investigation. The greatest thing in the world is the freedom of the spirit of man. Any truth that does not come from us is a lie; whenever we adhere to a statement our critical sense must be ever on the alert, and with all our affirmations and all our thoughts there must be mingled a secret reluctance. Nay, if the ideal of God were to become visible, if God Himself were to appear before the masses under visible form, the first duty of man would be to refuse obedience and to consider Him as an equal to be argued with, and not as a master to Whom he should submit."
That petty or wicked souls should reject the faith and live bad lives, our Divine Lord might expect, and doubtless it is not this that gives Him the greatest pain. What must be the sorrow that He suffers from the sins of "the good"; infidelities in Christian spouses, grave sins against His law in employees, workmen and servants, injustice and disregard of charity and equity in masters and employers; the absence of right-dealing and of mutual confidence in social relations; neglect of the warnings, "What you do to the least of My little ones you do unto Me," and " Seek ye first of all the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you." Still more painful to the Heart of our Saviour, we know, are the sins of His chosen ones, of souls that are consecrated to His service: carelessness in the administration of the Sacraments and especially in the offering of the Sacrifice, want of detachment on the part of those who have taken the vow of poverty, culpable liberties in those who have taken the vow of chastity, serious disobedience to authority in spite of the vow of obedience; perhaps still more regrettable falls, and consequent scandal.
Think how many sins may be committed on the face of the earth in one day; or in one night; in a night and a day, in one town, in one quarter, in one house, even in one soul. . . .
We can well understand the urgent invitation of our Lord that we should make reparation; that generous souls, in addition to what is already their duty, should give Him more love, over and above, to adjust the balance.
Suppose a child were so far to forget himself as to insult, or even to strike, his mother, would not his brothers and sisters seek by their loving attention to make her forget the unnatural ingratitude of her son, to give her extra love to make up for his neglect and insults?
And so our Lord raises up pure souls to compensate for hearts that are soiled with sin, virgins to make reparation for sinful unions, the spirit of sacrifice to compensate for illicit loves. Side by side with profane lives will be lives of holiness, side by side with faces that bear the imprint of debauch will be faces alight with Divine love; side by side with the numbers that crowd to corrupt cinemas and theatres will be the elect that press around the tabernacle. To check the victims of vice there will be martyrs of virtue, to compensate for the sins of those who seek only to partake of the joys of Satan, there will be souls who dream only of partaking of the Passion of Jesus Christ.
Prayer of Expiation
DEAREST JESUS, Whose love poured forth upon mankind is so ungratefully repaid with forgetfulness, coldness and disdain, behold us prostrate before Thine Altar. We strive to pay Thee special honour and thus make amends for the wrong done on every side to Thy loving Heart.
Nevertheless remembering that even we have not always been free from that guilt and unworthiness, moved too by deep sorrow, first of all we entreat Thy mercy for ourselves. We are ready and longing to make amends, not only for our own wrongdoing, but also for the wickedness of others who, straying from the path of salvation and stubborn in disobedience, refuse to follow thee, their shepherd and guide, or trampling under foot the vows of their Baptism, have shaken off the sweet yoke of Thy law. For all this grievous sin we are eager to atone, and moreover resolute to amend each separate evil; whatever is immodest and shameful whether in life or in attire; the many snares set for the undoing of innocent souls; Holy days dishonoured; loathsome blasphemies against thee and Thy Saints: insults offered to Thy Vicar and Thy priesthood; the very Sacrament of Divine Love slighted or profaned by dreadful sacrilege; lastly, the open affronts of nations which deny her just rights to the Church founded by thee, and reject her
teaching.
Would that with our own blood we could wash away these offences. Still that the outraged honour of God may be restored, we can and we do invoke that atonement which once upon the Cross Thou didst offer to Thy Father, and which day by day thou dost ever renew upon the Altar. And we join therewith the expiation made by the Virgin Mother, by all the Saints, and by the piety of Thy faithful. From our hearts we promise - Thy grace aiding us - to make good, so far as in us lies, for our own past sins and those of others, and for all our indifference to Thy great love, by steadfast faith, innocency of life, perfect observance of the laws of Thy Gospel, most of all the law of charity; and furthermore to hinder with all our might every offence against Thee and to enlist in Thy following all whomsoever we may.
Most gracious Jesus, accept, we beseech Thee, through the intercession of our Blessed Lady, our Patroness in Reparation, the obedience which freely offers this expiation, vouchsafe to bestow upon us the great grace of perseverance, deign to keep us faithful in Thy service even unto death; so that we may all at last reach our home where Thou dost live and reign with the Father and the Holy Ghost, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
An Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart
Most adorable and amiable Jesus, always filled with love for us, always touched by our miseries, always urged by the desire to make us share in Thy treasures and to give Thyself entirely to us; Jesus, my Savior and my God, who by an excess of the most ardent and the most prodigious of all loves, hast placed Thyself in the state of Victim in the adorable Sacrament of the Eucharist, in which Thou dost offer Thyself in sacrifice each day from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, what must be Thy sentiments in this state, when in return for all that Thou hast done, Thou dost find in the hearts of the greater part of men only unkindness, neglect, ingratitude and contempt!
Was it not enough, O my Savior, to have chosen the most painful way to save us, although Thou couldst have shown us excessive love at the expense of much less suffering? Was it not enough to abandon Thyself once to the cruel agony and the mortal languor, which the horrible vision of our sins with which Thou wert laden was to cause Thee? Why dost Thou wish to expose Thyself again daily to all the indignities of which the most fiendish and malicious of men and demons are capable? Ah! my God and my most loving Redeemer, what have been the sentiments of Thy Sacred Heart at the sight of all these acts of ingratitude and all those sins? How great has been the bitterness into which so many sacrileges and outrages have plunged Thy Sacred Heart!
Filled with the deepest regret for all these indignities, behold me prostrate and annihilated before Thee in the presence of Heaven and earth, to make an act of reparation for all the indignities and outrages which Thou hast received on our altars since the institution of this adorable Sacrament. With a heart humbled and broken with sorrow, I ask Thy pardon a thousand times for all these indignities. Would that I could, O my God, water with my tears and wash with my blood all the places where Thy Sacred Heart has been so horribly outraged and where the marks of Thy love have been received with such strange contempt! Would that I could, Sovereign Lord, my Savior and my Judge, whom I believe to be really present in the adorable Sacrament of the Eucharist. I resolve for the future, by the respect which I shall show in His Presence and by my zeal in doing Him honor, to prove that I believe firmly in the Real Presence. And as I make profession to honoring His Sacred Heart in a special manner, I wish to pass the rest of my life in this Divine Heart. Grant me, O my Jesus, the grace which I ask of Thee to breathe forth my last sigh at the hour of my death in Thy Sacred Heart. Amen.
Act of Contrition to the Sacred Heart
O most Sacred and adorable Heart of Jesus, behold me humbly prostrate before Thee with a heart contrite and penetrated with lively sorrow for having loved Thee so little and for having offered Thee so many insults by my wandering from Thee, by my ingratitude, my perfidy and my other acts of infidelity, by which I have rendered myself unworthy of Thy mercies and of all the graces and favors of Thy pure love.
The shame and regret which I feel leave me no other words to express myself except to say: I have sinned against Thee. Have pity on me who am unworthy of all mercy. Do not condemn me, however, O Divine Heart, full of charity. I implore Thee to manifest the excess of Thy goodness by showing favor to this poor criminal who appears before Thee annihilated in the abyss of her nothingness and misery. Alas! O Sacred Heart, I have sinned against Thee, do not abandon me to the rigor of Thy justice which would infallibly punish any want of love towards Thee by the eternal privation of Thy love.
Oh! rather let all torments, pains and miseries come and overwhelm me, than that I should be deprived for a moment of loving Thee! And since it is Thou, O Divine Heart of Jesus, the Source of love, who hast received the insults of all my infidelities and of my want of love, do Thou take care to be avenged upon me. If Thou wishest to condemn me to burn eternally, I consent, provided it be in the devouring fire of Thy pure love. O compassionate Heart, save me by the excess of Thy mercy. Do not allow me to perish in the deluge of my iniquities. O Heart of love, I cry to Thee from the abyss of my misery; save me by Thy ardent charity. Save me, I implore Thee, by all that is in Thee most capable of moving Thee to do me this great mercy. Have pity, then, on this poor criminal who expects her salvation from Thee.
Oh! save me, O merciful Heart, at whatever price it may cost. Save me and do not deprive me of loving Thee eternally. Rather let all the moments of life that remain to me be filled with bitterness, sorrow and affliction.
Am I not sufficiently punished for having loved so late a Heart so full of love! But because I love Thee, I have such regret for having so ungratefully offended Thee, my Sovereign Good, that rather than having committed so many sins, I would wish from the moment I commenced to sin to have endured as a preservative all the pains of Hell, although I hope that in Thy love Thou wilt exempt me from them. This is what I pray Thee, while crying to Thee with all my heart for mercy. Pardon, then, in Thy mercy, this afflicted heart which has put all its confidence and all its hope in Thee.
O Heart of Jesus, my Savior, exercise over me this office which has cost Thee so dear and do not lose the fruit of so many sufferings and of so painful a death, but honor it by saving me in order that my heart may adore, praise and glorify Thee eternally. Be then, O Sacred Heart, our refuge and our hope, now and at the hour of our death!
Take my cause in hand, justify me and turn away the rigors which my sins have merited. Thou art my true friend, do Thou answer and satisfy for me. Draw me from the abyss into which my sins have precipitated me. Hearken to the groans of my afflicted heart which hopes for everything from Thy goodness. But if Thy justice condemns it as unworthy of pardon, it will appeal to the tribunal of Thy love, being ready to suffer all its rigors rather than be for a single moment deprived of loving Thee. Cut, burn, amputate; provided only I love Thee, it is sufficient for me. Spare neither my body nor my life, whenever there is question of Thy glory. I belong to Thee, O Divine and Adorable Heart, work out, then, my salvation, I implore Thee. In punishing my sins, do not abandon me to myself, allowing me to relapse into the same sins. Ah! rather a thousand deaths than offend Thee whom I love a hundred times more than my life!
What glory will the loss of a wretched grain of dust give Thee? And Thou shalt have great glory in saving such a miserable sinner. Save me, then, O pure Love, for I wish to love Thee eternally whatever price it may cost me. Yes, I wish to love Thee whatever it may cost me, I wish to love Thee with my whole heart. Amen.
Novena of Reparation
I adore Thee profoundly, O my Jesus, in Thy sacramental form; I acknowledge Thee to be true God and true Man, and by this act of adoration I intend to atone for the coldness of so many Christians who pass before Thy churches and sometimes before the very Tabernacle in which Thou art pleased to remain at all hours with loving impatience to give Thyself to Thy faithful people, and do not so much as bend the knee before Thee, and who, by their indifference proclaim that they grow weary of this heavenly manna, like the people of Israel in the wilderness. I offer Thee in reparation for this grievous negligence, the Most Precious Blood which Thou didst shed from Thy five wounds, and especially from Thy sacred Side, and entering therein, I repeat a thousand times with true recollection of spirit:
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Profoundly I adore Thee, my Jesus; I acknowledge Thy Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, and by this act of adoration I intend to atone for the carelessness of so many Christians who see Thee carried to poor sick people to strengthen them for the great journey to eternity, and leave Thee unescorted, nay, who scarcely give Thee any outward marks of reverence. I offer Thee in reparation for such coldness, the Most Precious Blood which Thou didst shed from Thy five wounds and especially from Thy sacred Side, and entering therein I say again and again with my heart full of devotion:
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Profoundly I adore Thee, my Jesus, true Bread of life eternal, and by my adoration I intend to compensate Thee for the many wounds which Thy Heart suffers daily in the profaning of churches where Thou art pleased to dwell beneath the sacramental veils to be adored and loved by all Thy faithful people; and in reparation for so many acts of irreverence, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood which Thou didst shed from Thy five wounds and especially from Thy sacred Side, and entering therein with recollected spirit I repeat every instant:
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Profoundly I adore Thee, my Jesus, the living Bread which cometh down from Heaven, and by this act of adoration, I intend to atone for all the many acts of irreverence which are committed all the day long by Thy faithful when they assist at Holy Mass, wherein through Thine exceeding love Thou dost renew in an unbloody manner the self-same sacrifice which Thou didst once offer on Calvary for our salvation. I offer Thee in atonement for such base ingratitude the Most Precious Blood which Thou didst shed from Thy five wounds and especially from Thy sacred Side, and entering therein with sincere devotion, I unite my voice to that of the Angels who stand around Thee in adoration, saying with them:
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Profoundly I adore Thee, my Jesus, true Victim of expiation for our sins, and I offer Thee this act of adoration to atone for the sacrilegious outrages Thou dost suffer from so many ungrateful Christians who dare to draw near to receive Thee with mortal sin upon their souls. In reparation for such hateful sacrileges I offer Thee the last drops of Thy Most Precious Blood, which Thou didst shed from Thy sacred wounds and especially from the wound in Thy sacred Side, and entering therein with a devout heart, I adore Thee, I bless and I love Thee, and I repeat with all the hearts who are devoted to the Blessed Sacrament:
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine!
All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
"Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer Thee, through the compassionate Heart of Mary, the prayers, works and sufferings of this day, in reparation for the offences that are committed against Thee, and for all the intentions that Thou hast in immolating Thyself continually on the altar."
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