Pope Leo XIII in 1899.
To honor and make reparation to our Lord and Savior as this most important feast approaches, we offer “A Reparation of Honor to the Sacred Heart” from the Ursuline Manual of 1854. This prayer book was “duly examined” and “approved” by “John, archbishop of New York, October 1, 1851.”
In these prayers — more powerful than the current watered-down consecrations of today — we hope the Lord will find solace and souls willing to make reparation to a Heart so little loved, yet is the source of all Mercy and blessings for mankind.
We, in turn, ask all to pray this not only for reparation, but in pleading with the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Reign on Earth as He does in Heaven — not for our sake, but for the sake and honor of His own glory and that of His Mother’s!
May, Mary, who is the Mother of our Sacred Heart Jesus of Mercy, accept this prayer in Her own Sacred Heart and offer it to Her Son for the Triumph of our Queen’s Immaculate Heart throughout the world!
The prayer should be said on the feast day itself.
O most amiable and adorable Heart of Jesus! center of all hearts, glowing with charity, and inflamed with zeal for the interest of Thy Father and the salvation of mankind. O Heart, ever sensible of our misery, and ever in motion to redress our evils; the real Victim of Love in the Holy Eucharist, and a propitiatory sacrifice for sin on the Altar of the Cross!
Since the generality of Christians make no other return for these Thy mercies, than contempt of Thy favors, forgetfulness of their obligations, and ingratitude to the best of Benefactors, is it not just, that we, thy servants, penetrated with a deep sense of such indignities, should, as far as in our power, enter on a due and satisfactory reparation of honor to Thy Most Sacred Majesty?
Humbled, therefore, in mind before Heaven and Earth, we solemnly declare our sincere detestation and abhorrence of such conduct.
Inexpressible, we know, was the bitterness with which the multitude of our sins overwhelmed Thy tender Heart; insufferable the weight of our iniquities, which pressed Thy Face to the Earth in the Garden of Olives, and insurmountable Thy anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary, in Thy last breath Thou wouldst reclaim sinners to their duty and repentance.
This we know, O dear Redeemer! and would most willingly redress these Thy sufferings by our own, or share with Thee in Thine.
O merciful Jesus, ever present on our Altars, and with a Heart open to receive all who labor and are burdened! O adorable Heart of Jesus! source of true contrition! impart to our hearts the true spirit of penance, and to our eyes a fountain of tears, that we may bewail our sins, and those of the world.
Pardon, Divine Jesus! all the injuries, reproaches, and outrages offered to Thee through the course of Thy Holy Life and bitter Passion. Pardon all the impieties, irreverences, and sacrileges which have been committed against Thee in the Sacrament of the Eucharist from its first institution.
Graciously receive the small tribute of our sincere repentance as an agreeable offering in Thy sight, in requital for the benefits we daily receive from the Altar, where Thou art a living and continual Sacrifice, and in union with that bloody Holocaust Thou didst present to Thy Eternal Father on Mount Calvary.
Divine Jesus! give Thy blessing to the ardent desire we now entertain, and the holy resolution we have taken of ever loving and adoring Thee in Thy Sacrament of Love in the Eucharist, thus to repair, by a true conversion of heart, and zeal for Thy glory, our past negligences and infidelity.
Be Thou, O adorable Heart! who knowest the clay of which we are formed, be Thou our Mediator with Thy heavenly Father, whom we have so grievously offended; strengthen our weakness, confirm our resolution, and with Thy charity, humility, meekness, and patience, cover the multitude of our iniquities; be Thou our support, our refuge, and our strength, that nothing henceforward in life or death may separate us from Thee!
Amen.
For those who have said the prayer, we now ask that you reflect on some of the comments we have been offering in the Great Spiritual Battle and ask yourself if the words we have prayed do not reflect the fact of how far astray the post-Vatican II hierarchy and many of today’s Catholics have gone from the Church’s former deep love for its Savior.
In this Reparation of Honor to the Sacred Heart:
* are these the prayers of those who would remove kneelers?
* are these the prayers of those who would not stop to genuflect when entering a Sanctuary or passing by the Blessed Sacrament as one gets to a pew?
* are these the prayers of those who would receive the Body and Blood of Christ in their hands?
* are these the prayers of those who would “speak in tongues”?
Or are these the prayers of those who dropped to their knees before the Blessed Sacrament and spoke only in the soft whisper of prayers morning, noon and night?
Before our Lord and Savior, we do not advocate a “new” Church — we already have one.
We advocate, in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no more deputies, no more cardinals, no more bishops, no more priests — expect One.
The High Priest as True God and True Man — Reigning on Earth, with His Mother at His Right Hand, where no man would dare enter His Throne room and not get down on their knees in worship and respect!
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