Novena of the Sacred Heart (Five Adorations)

IN the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Come, O Holy Ghost, replenish the hearts of thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of thy divine love.

V. Send forth thy Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

LET US PRAY.

O LORD, God of infinite goodness and mercy, grant us, we beseech thee, the grace to be always directed and comforted by thy Holy Spirit: through Christ our Lord. Amen.

O my soul! enliven thy faith, and consider that in the most adorable sacrament of the altar, Jesus Christ is really present, true God and true man, with his sacred heart inflamed with most ardent love for thee.

Recal thy wandering thoughts, and reflect that thou speakest to the King of heaven and earth, to thy most loving Lord, brother, Saviour, and spouse. Oh! how many seraphim stand around the altar, and with awful reverence adore his divine Majesty in the most holy Eucharist? O my soul, unite with them, and with profound sentiments of animated faith, firm confidence, ardent love, and humble homage, adore and bless thy God, whose presence constitutes the bliss of paradise, and whose most sweet heart is open to enrich thee with those precious graces, of which he is the inexhaustible and eternal source.

1. I adore you, O sacred Heart of Jesus, in the most august sacrament of the altar, where you show the wonderful excess of your tender love. I thank your infinite goodness, by which you have instituted this divine sacrament, and have prepared for us a sacred banquet, wherein we are nourished with your own most precious body and blood. O most adorable Heart of Jesus, receive, I beseech you, my soul with all its faculties; inflame it with the fire of your divine love, and increase its ardour daily more and more.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be to the Father.

2. I adore you, O sacred Heart of Jesus, in the most august sacrament of the altar, where you continue to dwell, inflamed with the desire that the hearts of all creatures should be united to yours, thereby to be replenished with thy most precious graces. I fervently thank your incomprehensible charity, for having so often visited my unworthy heart in the most holy sacrament, and I beg you will give me an additional proof of your love, by enriching it with those graces and blessings, which will render it pleasing in your sight.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be to the Father.

3. I adore you, O sacred Heart of Jesus, in the most august sacrament of the altar, where so many ungrateful and unbelieving Christians do not adore you, nor acknowledge your divine presence. In reparation of the injuries they commit against your divine Majesty, I come, penetrated with the most profound respect, to render you homage, and to protest with a lively faith that you are really present in the most holy sacrament. I earnestly beseech you to enlighten those unhappy souls, who are buried in the darkness of error, that they may adore and proclaim the truth of this ineffable mystery.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be to the Father.

4. I adore you, O sacred Heart of Jesus, in the most august sacrament of the altar, where you are so little loved, and so often insulted by so many irreverent and sacrilegious communions. In reparation of such base ingratitude, I offer you the hearts of those, who, with ardent love, and respectful homage, entertain themselves in the presence of the blessed sacrament, and devoutly receive you in the holy communion. In union with their oblations, I offer you my poor, but contrite heart, humbly begging of you to accept it, and imprint thereon, as likewise on the hearts of all Christians, that love, respect, and gratitude, with which we should be penetrated in presence of this adorable mystery.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be to the Father.

5. I adore you, O sacred Heart of Jesus, in the most august sacrament of the altar, where you remain day and night, without being visited by your servants. Accept, O divine Heart, my poor desires to visit your divine Majesty, in every temple throughout the Christian world, where you are present in the blessed sacrament; to invite, by my humble example, all creatures to correspond by frequent visits to the excess of your love. But as I cannot effect this, I adore you here in spirit, and wherever you are in the adorable sacrament; offering to your divine Majesty the adoration, homage, and praises of myriads of angels, who incessantly adore, honour, and glorify you, humbled for love of us in our tabernacles.

Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory be to the Father.

O sweet Heart of Jesus, I implore
That I may love thee more and more.