Eucharistic Reflection - Prayer to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
.jpg)
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, lonely Heart,
humiliated Heart, abandoned Heart, forgotten Heart, despised
Heart, outraged Heart, Heart ignored by men, Heart which loves our own
hearts; Heart pleading for our love, Heart so patient in waiting for us, Heart
so eager to listen to our prayers, Heart so anxious for our requests,
Heart, unending source of new graces, Heart so silent, yet desiring to speak to
souls, Heart, welcome refuge of the hidden life, Heart, teacher of the secrets
of union with God, Heart of Him Who sleeps but watches always, Eucharistic
Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Jesus Victim, I desire to comfort Thee; I unite
myself to Thee; I offer myself in union with Thee.
I regard myself as nothing in Thy Presence. I
long to forget myself in order to think only of Thee, to be despised and
forgotten for love of Thee. I have no desire to be understood or loved by
anyone but Thee.
I will keep silent in order to listen to Thee,
and I will abandon myself in order to lose myself in Thee.
Grant that I may thus satisfy Thy thirst for my
salvation, Thy burning thirst for my holiness, and that once purified I may
give Thee a sincere and pure love. I am anxious not to tire Thee further with
waiting: take me, I hand myself over to Thee. I give Thee all my actions, my
mind to be enlightened, my heart to be directed, my will to be stabilized, my
wretchedness to be relieved, my soul and body to be nourished by Thee.
Eucharistic Heart of my Savior, Whose Blood is
the life of my soul, may I myself cease to live and Thou alone live in me.
Amen."
(Indulgence 500
days. Brief, February 6, 1899, Leo XIII; Sacred Penitentiary Apostolic,
November 8, 1934. Today the 500 days has been replaced by a partial indulgence,
which no longer has a specific time associated with the indulgence).