Sacred Heart of Jesus, fount of love and mercy,
Today we come Thy blessing to implore;
Oh, touch our hearts, so cold and so ungrateful,
And make them, Lord, Thine own forever more.

Refrain
Sacred Heart of Jesus! we implore,
Oh, make us love Thee more and more.

Sacred Heart of Jesus! make us know and love Thee,
Unfold to us the treasures of Thy grace,
That so our hearts, from things of earth uplifted,
May long alone to gaze upon Thy Face. Refrain.

Sacred Heart of Jesus! make us pure and gentle,
And teach us how to do Thy blessed will;
To follow close the print of Thy dear footsteps,
And when we fall Sacred Heart, oh, love us still. Refrain.

Sacred Heart of Jesus! bless all hearts that love Thee,
And may Thine own Heart ever blessed be;
Bless us, dear Lord, and bless the friends we cherish,
And keep us true to Mary and to Thee.

Refrain
Sacred Heart of Jesus! we implore,
Oh, make us love Thee more and more.

~ from a Slovak hymnal. Source: The St. Gregory Hymnal, 1920

Act of Oblation to be made before a Representation of the Sacred Heart

MY loving Jesus, out of the grateful love I bear Thee, and to make reparation for my unfaithfulness to grace, I (N.N.) give Thee my heart, and I consecrate myself wholly to Thee; and with Thy help I purpose never to sin again.

(The Raccolta, 1910)

PRAYER IN TEMPORAL WANTS

O Mother of Perpetual Help, numerous clients continually surround Thy holy Picture, all imploring Thy mercy. All bless Thee as the assured help of the miserable; all feel the benefit of Thy maternal protection. With confidence, then, do I present myself before Thee in my misery. See, dear Mother, the many evils to which we are exposed; see how numerous are our wants. Trials and sorrows often depress us; reverses of fortune and privations are grievous, bringing misery into our homes; everywhere we meet the cross. Have pity, compassionate Mother on us and our families, especially in this my necessity (here mention it). Help me, O my Mother, in my distress; deliver me from all my ills; or if it be the will of God that I should suffer still longer, grant that I may endure all with love and patience. This grace I expect of Thee with confidence, because Thou art our Perpetual Help. Amen.

PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART

O MOST Sacred Heart of Jesus, pour down thy blessings abundantly upon thy Church, upon the Supreme Pontiff, and upon all the clergy; give perseverance to the just, convert sinners, enlighten unbelievers, bless our parents, friends and benefactors, help the dying, free the souls in Purgatory, and extend over all hearts the sweet empire of thy love. Amen.

(The Raccolta, 1910)

MORNING OFFERING

DEAR LORD, I 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 wilt worketh through me in all that I do this day; thus may I draw Thee closer to me than Thou wert before. I offer Thee all the crosses and sufferings of the world, in union with Thy life on earth, in expiation for sins. Please join my every action and heartbeat to the pulsations of Thy heart. I unite all my works of this day to those labors Thou didst perform while Thou wert on earth, bathing them in Thy precious blood, and I offer them to the Heavenly Father so that many souls may be saved.

Amen.

PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART

O Coeur de Jésus, ne regardez pas nos péchés mais le sang des martyrs qui crie miséricorde!

O Heart of Jesus, do not look at our sins but at the blood of the martyrs which cries out for mercy!

O mon Jésus, mon Amour, mon Bien suprême, mon Tout, oh! que j’ai insensé de me séparer de Vous par l’amour de viles créatures! Ingrat que je suis! Maintenant je vous embrasse, ô ma Vie, je m’attache à Vous, je ne veux plus vous abondonner, ô mon Trésor, je veux vivre et mourir dans une union continuelle avec Vous.

O my Jesus, my Love, my supreme Good, my All, oh! how foolish I was to separate myself from Thee through the love of vile creatures! Ungrateful that I am! I now embrace Thee, o my Life, I cleave to Thee, I no longer want to abandon Thee, o my Treasure, I wish to live and die in constant union with Thee.

June 30th ~ Commemoration of St. Paul

O God, Who by delivering to Blessed Peter, Thy Apostle, the keys of the kingdom of heaven, didst bestow upon him the priestly power of binding and loosing, grant that, by the help of his intercession, we may be delivered from the bonds of our sins. Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.

(2nd Collect: Of St. Peter. June 30, Commemoration of St. Paul)

(St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956)

July 1st ~ The Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast appointed Thy Only-begotten Son to be Redeemer of the world, and hast willed to be appeased by His Blood, grant we beseech Thee, that (by our solemn worship), we may so venerate the price of our redemption, and by its power, be so defended from the evils of this present earthly life, that we may enjoy its fruit forevermore in heaven. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen. (Collect, July 1, The Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ)

(St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1956)

GLORY be to JESUS !
Who in bitter pains
Pour’d for me the life-blood
From his sacred veins.

Grace and life eternal
In that Blood I find;
Bless’d be His compassion,
Infinitely kind!

Bless’d through endless ages
Be the precious stream,
Which from endless torment
Doth the world redeem.

There the fainting spirit
Drinks of life her fill;
There, as in a fountain,
Laves herself at will.

Oh, the Blood of CHRIST !
It soothes the FATHER’S ire,
Opes the gate of heaven,
Quells eternal fire.

Abel’s blood for vengeance
Pleaded to the skies,
But the Blood of JESUS
For our pardon cries.

Oft as it is sprinkled
On our guilty hearts,
Satan in confusion
Terror-struck departs.

Oft as earth exulting
Wafts its praise on high,
Hell with terror trembles,
Heaven is filled with joy.

Lift ye, then, your voices;
Swell the mighty flood;
Louder still and louder,
Praise the Precious Blood!

100 Days, once a day. Pius VII, October 18, 1815.

(The Raccolta, 1910)

July 2nd ~ The Visitation of Our Blessed Lady

Impart unto Thy servants, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that to us, to whom the childbirth of the Blessed Virgin hath been the beginning of salvation, the votive solemnity of her visitation may bring an increase of peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen. (Collect, July 2, The Visitation of Our Blessed Lady)

~ The New Roman Missal, 1937

Sweet Jesus

Sweet Jesus,
Body and Blood most Holy,
be the delight and pleasure of
my soul,
my strength and salvation
in all temptations,
my joy and peace
in every trial,
my light and guide
in every word and deed,
and my final protector
in death.

Amen.

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

     ETERNAL Father, I offer Thee the most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ in atonement for my sins, and in supplication for the holy souls in Purgatory and for the needs of holy Church.

An indulgence of 500 days.
An indulgence of 3 years, if this prayer is recited during the month of July.
A plenary indulgence on the usual condition of this act of oblation for an entire month. (Pius VII, Sept. 22, 1817; S.P. Ap. [the Sacred Penitentiary Apostolic], March 10, 1933 and April 3, 1941).
(The Raccolta, 1957)

MOST Precious Blood of life eternal! price and ransom of the whole universe! drink and bath of the soul! ever pleading the cause of man before the throne of heavenly Mercy! I adore Thee most profoundly; I would, if I were able, make Thee some compensation for the outrages and wrongs Thou dost ever suffer from men, and especially from those who in their rashness dare to blaspheme Thee. Who will not bless this Blood of value infinite? Who does not feel himself inflamed with the love of Jesus, who shed it all for us? What should I be but for this Blood which hath redeemed me? And who drew Thee out of the veins of my Lord, even unto the last drop? It was Love! O immense love, which gave us this saving balsam! O Balsam beyond all price streaming forth from the fount of immeasurable lovel Give to all hearts, all tongues, power to praise, celebrate, and thank Thee now and ever, and throughout eternity. Amen.

300 days, The Raccolta

(Confraternity Manual of the Most Precious Blood, 1861)

ETERNAL Father, by the most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, glorify His most holy Name, according to the intention and the desires of His adorable Heart. Amen.

To be said in reparation for blasphemies

At the Elevation of the Sacred Host

O MY Savior! with sincere humility I adore Thee, and offer Thee up, by the hands of the priest, to Thy Heavenly Father in reparation for my sins and for the sins of the whole world.

July 7th~ Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bishops, Confessors

Celebrated on this date from 1887 to 1969

Almighty, eternal God, Who didst grant the peoples of Slavonia to come to the knowledge of Thy name through Thy blessed confessors and bishops, Cyril and Methodius, grant that, as we glory in their festival, we may be joined with them in fellowship. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen. (Collect, July 7, Sts. Cyril and Methodius)


~ The New Roman Missal, 1937

PRAYER of the VIRGIN
“August Queen of Heaven” prayer given by Our Lady to Fr. Louis-Édouard Cestac with the Imprimatur of the [local] Bishop of Bayonne, Leo Albertus, 1945.

August Queen of heaven and mistress of the Angels, you who received from God the power and the mission to crush the head of Satan, we humbly ask you, send the heavenly legions so that under your orders, they may pursue the demons, fight them everywhere, suppress their audacity and drive them back into the abyss.
Who is like unto God?
O good and tender Mother, you will always be our love and our hope.
O divine Mother, send the Holy Angels to defend me and to drive the cruel enemy away from me.
Holy Angels and Archangels defend us, keep us.

An indulgence of 300 days (Pius X, June 6, 1908)

AUGUST QUEEN OF HEAVEN

A slightly different version.

AUGUST QUEEN of HEAVEN, sovereign Mistress of the Angels, who didst receive from the beginning the mission and the power to crush the Serpent’s head, we beseech thee to send thy holy Angels, that under thy command and by thy power, they may pursue the evil spirits, encounter them on every side, resist their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of woe.

Most holy Mother, send thy Angels to defend us and to drive the cruel enemy from us.

All ye holy Angels and Archangels help and defend us. Amen

O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our love and our hope.

Holy angels and archangels, keep and defend us. Amen.

At the Elevation of the Chalice

Most precious Blood, flow on my soul and sanctify it! May the love through which Thou wast shed for me be enkindled in my heart, and purify it!

Prayer for Peace

Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris: quia non est alius qui pugnat pro nobis nisi tu, Deus noster.
℣ Fiat pax in virtute tua.
℟ Et abundantia in turibus tuis.


Give peace, O Lord, in our days; for there is none other that fighteth for us, but only Thou, our God.
℣ Let there be peace in Thy strength, O Lord.
℟ And plenty in Thy strong places.


An indulgence of 100 days, each time it is said. Pius IX, May 18, 1848)


(The Raccolta, 1910)