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Let us pray: O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did
instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that in the same Spirit
we may be truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

My God, my Savior, I adore Thy Sacred Heart,
for that heart is the seat and source
of all Thy tender human affections for us sinners.
It is the instrument and organ of Thy love.
It did beat for us. It yearned over us.
It ached for us, and for our salvation.
It was on fire through zeal, that the glory
of God might be manifested in and by us.

It is the channel through which has come to us
all Thy overflowing human affection,
all Thy Divine Charity towards us.
All Thy incomprehensible compassion for us,
as God and Man, as our Creator and our Redeemer and Judge,
has come to us, and comes, in one inseparably mingled stream,
through that Sacred Heart.
O most Sacred symbol and Sacrament of Love,
divine and human, in its fullness,
Thou didst save me by Thy divine strength,
and Thy human affection, and then at length by that
wonder-working blood, wherewith Thou didst overflow.

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