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Friday, September 17, 2010

Chaplet of the Sacred Heart - variations

Variation #1:

Beads same as above.
On 1st large (X) bead:

Incline unto mine aid, O God.  O Lord, make haste to help me.
1st set:
Most loving Jesus.  My heart leaps for joy in thinking on Thy loving Sacred Heart, all tenderness and sweetness for sinful man; and, with trust unbounded, it never doubts Thy ready welcome.  Ah me!  My sins!  How many and how great!  With Peter and Madgalen, in tears, I bewail and abhor them, because they are an offense to Thee, my sole and chief good.  Grant me, O grant me pardon for them all!  O may I die, I beseech Thee, by thy loving Heart; may I die rather that offend Thee; and may I live only to correspond to Thy love.
Our Father
Glory Be (5x)
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
2nd set:
My Jesus.  I bless Thy most humble Hear, and I give thanks to Thee, Who, in making it my model, not only dost urge me with such pressing to imitate it, but, at the cost of so many humiliations, dost Thyself stoop to point me out the path and smooth for me the way to follow Thee.  Foolish and ungrateful that I am, how have I wandered far away from Thee.  Mercy, my Jesus, mercy!  Away hateful pride and love of worldly honour!  With lowly heart I wish to follow Thee, my Jesus, through humiliations and the cross, and thus to gain peace and salvation.   Only be Thou at hand to strengthen me, and I will ever bless Thy Sacred Heart.
Our Father
Glory Be (5x)
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
3rd set:
My Jesus.  I marvel at Thy most patient Heart, and I thank Thee for all those wondrous examples of unwearied patience which Thou didst leave me to guide me on my way.  It grieves me that I have still to reproach myself with my extravagant delicacy, shrinking from the slightest pain.  O, pour then into my hear, dear Jesus, eager and enduring love of suffering and of the cross, of mortification and of penance, that following Thee to Calvary, I may with Thee attain the joys of paradise.
Our Father
Glory Be (5x)
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
4th set:
Dear Jesus.  At the sight of Thy most gentle Heart, I shudder to see how unlike min is to Thine, since at a shadow, at a look, at word of opposition, I fret and grieve.  O then, pardon my excesses, and give me grace that in every contradiction I may follow the example of Thy unchangeable meekness, and so enjoy an everlasting holy peace.
Our Father
Glory Be (5x)
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
5th set:
Sing praise to Jesus for His most generous Heart, the Conqueror of death and hell; yet never wilt thou reach its due with all thy praise.  More than ever am I confounded looking upon my coward heart, which through human respect dreads even a passing word.  Courage, my soul!  It shall be so with thee no more.  My Jesus, I pray Thee for such strength that, fighting and conquering on earth, I may one day rejoice triumphantly with Thee in heaven.
Our Father
Glory Be (5x)
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
On the remaining beads:
Let us turn to Mary, consecrating ourselves to her more and more, and trusting in her maternal Heart, let us say to her:
By the gracious gifts of thy sweetest Heart, obtain for me, great Mother of my God and my Mother Mary, a true and lasting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, thy well beloved Son, that, united in every thought and affection with that Heart, I may fulfill all the duties of my state of life with ready heart, serving my Jesus ever more, but especially on this day.
Heart of Jesus, burning with love of us, Inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
Lord, we beseech Thee, let Thy Holy Spirit kindle in our hearts that fire of charity which Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, sent forth from His inmost Heart upon this earth, and willed that it should burn with vehemence.  Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever.  Amen.

Variation #2:

One extra large (X) bead immediately after the Crucifix and a Sacred Heart Medal.
Same prayer on the Crucifix as above.

On the large (X) beads:
O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love Thee more and more.
On the small (0) beads:
Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love.
Conclude each set with:
Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.
Conclude with:
May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be blessed, adored and loved with grateful affection at every moment in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time.

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