A Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

O most amiable heart of Jesus, fruitful source of all graces, since thou desirest to possess my heart, and commandest me to love thee, I consecrate it wholly to thee with all its affections. Accept the gift I made thee of all that I am. I am sensible that what I give is little in comparison of what I owe thee, and of the immense favours thou bestowest on me. I give thee, nevertheless, what I am able, and as much as thou askest and desirest of me. I am grieved that I give it thee unclean, full of ingratitude, of earthly desires, and defiled with a thousand uncleannesses. But do thou, infinite Goodness, cleanse it with thy grace, sanctify it with thy gifts, disengage it from every fleeting good, and kindle in it thy holy and most pure love. I present it to thee proud and impatient; do thou make it humble and docile. Come then and reign in it, O my God, and with thy sweet and amiable dominion over it, banish, destroy, consume, and annihilate whatever is in it displeasing to thee; regulate its inclinations, correct its errors, fix its inconstancy, strengthen its weakness, purify its intentions, warm its tepidity, impress it with a horror of sin, with a love and perfect obendience of thy most holy law; with meekness, patience, charity towards its neighbour, resignation to thy will, and every virtue which has been thy delight, may it also be the delight of my heart. Be thou its guide in the dangerous ways of this world, its consolation in afflictions, its refuge in persecutions, its shield and defence against its enemies; effect, in fine, that dying to itself, it may no longer live but for thee. Amen.

And thou, immaculate Mary, most holy and dear mother of sacred love, thou, who so much desirest that thy divine Son may be loved by all, obtain for me, by thy most powerful intercession, that he may receive and accept this solemn consecration, which I this day make of my whole self in thy presence, to the end that my name may be written in indelible characters in the number of those happy souls who, faithful and constant in his service, shall never be separated from the most sweet love of thy dear and most amiable Son, Jesus. Amen.