I will keep my mind on beauty and turn my thoughts from evil things. I will hold my temper and bear the mistakes of others with love and a forgiving heart. I will admit when I am wrong and ask others to forgive me. I will not show off but remain humble. I will offer up all my sufferings, sickness and hurts. I will seek God’s will not my own. I will show appreciation for all the kindness, the blessings that I receive, and thank God for all things. I will do everything in my life for love of God. And I will love others as God has loved me.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, receive the offering and consecration I now make of my self to You. Keep me faithful unto death. Bring me one day to the happy home in heaven. I desire to live forever with God the Father and the Most Holy Spirit and You my Jesus together with your Most Immaculate Mother Amen.
Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
"Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart." Luke 2:19
It was the Heart of Mary which expressed her "yes" to God. This was her response to the message sent through the angel at the Annunciation. By her loving consent, Mary first conceived Christ in her heart and then in her womb.
"Jesus wishes to use you in order to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it; and these souls will be beloved of God like flowers arranged by me to adorn His throne." Our Lady of Fatima
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
"One of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a lance, and at once there flowed out blood and water." John 19:34
The Heart of Jesus is pure love. The revelation of the Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque showed the mark of the piercing and the purifying flame of love with the cross within it, which crowns the Divine Heart. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is surrounded by the crown of thorns to signify the entire Passion by which He poured out His life for us.
The heart of a precious baby
This prayer ministry began praying for an unborn baby, Lily Grace. Before she was born, doctors discovered she would need heart surgery. So many prayers were offered for her during the pregnancy and after her birth. The heart surgery was performed when she was three months old and she weighed about five pounds. She was born with only two chambers in her heart. Four chambers are needed in a human heart. Doctors placed a little plastic wall between each chamber, creating four chambers out of two. They literally created a new heart in her. These doctors are truly the Hands of God, performing such miraculous surgery on the heart of such a tiny baby.
The human heart was created "to know love" and "to live by love." This is a love that gives life. Of all creation, only the human heart can love. We can love because we are "of God" and we can freely choose to live according to our dignity in the image and likeness of God.
"In this is love. 1 John 4:10
When we love, our heart expands and we become more like God. When we pray, the Lord draws us close to His Sacred Heart. The story of Saint Philip Neri is a love story. As a young layman in Rome, Philip spent his days visiting the sick in the hospitals, teaching children catechism, serving men and women who had come to Rome on pilgrimage promoting the Forty Hour Devotion in the churches of the city. He spent his nights praying deep down in the catacombs of Saint Sebastian. During one of these prayer vigils, Philip experienced a personal Pentecost. He saw the Holy Spirit coming toward him as fire, a fire that found its way into his heart. This experience led Philip to a priestly vocation. He had a profound love for the Eucharist and for the Mother of God and a deep, interior life of contemplation. Every day, he prayed for hours and he held his spiritual children in his heart.
What happens to us when we pray for others? God expands our hearts to love and to be aware of the needs of others. In this way, our prayers are no longer about ourselves or what we think we need. Our prayers make our heart expand with love so that the needs of others are more prominent in our mind than our own needs.
Let us consecrate ourselves and all the names we receive through this prayer ministry to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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