Prayers

O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore You, I love You, and, with a 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. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.

(Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque)

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honoring, and glorifying Thee. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee.

I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death. Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God, Thy Father, and screen me from His anger that I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee.

I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted servants. Amen.

(Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque)
Padre Pio recited this novena every day for all those who requested his prayers. (A novena is a nine-day period of private or public prayer to obtain special graces, to implore special favors, or make special petitions.)

I. O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of _____ (here name your request). Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be to the Father

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

II. O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of ____ (here name your request). Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be to the Father

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

III. O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by Your infallible words, I now ask for the grace of _____ (here name your request). Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be to the Father

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners, and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.

Pray the Hail, Holy Queen and add: Saint Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

(The Sacred Heart of Jesus chaplet is composed of a medal of the Sacred Heart, and 39 beads, 6 of which are large, and 33 small. The small beads represent the 33 years of the mortal life of our Lord. The first 30 recall the years of His private life, and are divided into 5 groups of 6; the 3 on the pendant recall the public life of the Savior.)

Begin with the Anima Christi prayer on the Crucifix:

“Soul of Christ, sanctify me! Body of Christ, save me! Blood of Christ, inebriate me! Water from the side of Christ, wash me! Passion of Christ, strengthen me! O good Jesus hear me! Within Thy wounds hide me; Permit me not to be separated from Thee; from the malignant enemy, defend me; in the hour of death, call me and bid me come over to Thee, that with Thy saints I may praise Thee forever and ever, Amen.”

On the large beads pray: “O Sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.”

On the small beads say: “Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love.”

At the end of each group say: “Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.”

Upon completing the Chaplet, say: “May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be blessed, adored and praised with grateful affection, at every moment in all the Tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time.”