The Sacred Heart Novena Prayer

Day 5

O divine Savior, the infinite love of your sacred heart was so inflamed for us that it brought you as a sacrifice of propitiation for our sins to the altar of the cross. You have given us the

wounded heart and kept it open, not only that we might find therein a protection against the

justice of the Eternal Father whom we have offended by our sins, but also that His source of

grace and mercy may always be open to us and our needs.

Why then do I come to you so seldom and so indifferently?

Why do I not fly to the source of all grace?

O dearest Jesus, forgive me these insults which, through want of confidence in you, I have

so often committed against you. Behold, I now come to you with living faith, with the intention

never to leave you. Here I shall seek what I need so much. First, the forgiveness of my sins, the grace to do better,

and then I pray for your assistance in my need.

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.

From whom shall I ask, O sweet Jesus, is not from you whose heart is an inexhaustible

source of all graces and merits? Where shall I seek, if not from the treasure which contains all the riches of your clemency and bounty?

Where shall I knock, if it not be at the door of your sacred heart through which God himself comes to us, and through which we go to God?

Do you then, O heart of Jesus, I have recourse.

In you I find consolation when afflicted, protection when persecuted, strength when overwhelmed

with trials and light in doubt and darkness.

I firmly believe you can bestow on me the grace I implore, even though it should require a miracle.

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