The Sacred Heart Novena Prayer

Day 3

O beloved Jesus, my heart is deeply moved at the thought that you, Almighty God, should take upon

yourself our human nature in order to enable you to become our brother and to make his

children of God.

But your loving heart was not satisfied to raise us to such a high dignity.

You also desired to make us partakers in your inheritance in the kingdom of heaven.

How greatly we are indebted to you for these favors.

Oh, how I grieve to think that, until this very day, I have been so ungrateful for your many gifts.

Most humbly, do I ask for your forgiveness.

And pray that you will, through the merits of your sacred heart,

grant me the grace which I place before you.

Grant me the grace to follow you in all things

so that at death I may be with you in heaven,

with our Heavenly Father.

Furthermore, I beg your most merciful heart to have pity on me in my present need.

Grant me the favor I place before you that I hope to obtain from you.

O divine Jesus who has said,

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be open to you.

Behold me, prostrate at your feet.

Animated with a lively faith and confidence in the promises dictated by your sacred heart,

and pronounced by your adorable lips, I come to ask your aid.

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