Don't Miss Out! Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary This Friday

This Friday, June 7, is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and a wonderful time to consecrate ourselves to the hearts of Jesus and Mary. This holds much power spiritually. When we consecrate ourselves to them, we place ourselves under their care and protection, and allow them to embrace us even more closely as we learn to follow more closely in their footsteps.

What is Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immculate Heart of Mary?

June is the month that the Catholic Church focuses more closely on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and that automatically includes the Immaculate Heart of His Mother, Mary (see consecration prayers below).

If we consecrate ourselves to the hearts of Jesus and Mary consciously, they too give themselves to us in a new way. It's a covenant of two loves. When we commit ourselves to Jesus and Mary we become their property. They will take care of us as their property. A new life starts in us, formed after the hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Promises to Those Who Consecrate Themselves to the Sacred Heart:
There are special promises for those who consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart and venerate it:

1. This consecration rejoices the Sacred Heart and terrifies the devil, against whom it is a powerful weapon.
2. Consecration to the Sacred Heart is a sovereign remedy against mortal sin.
3. Consecration puts souls on the road to perfection.
4. Consecration will procure peace.
5. Consecration is the key which opens the Sacred Heart to us.
6. Consecration to the Sacred Heart is a pledge of salvation.

• Learn more about Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus here
• Where did devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus come from? Learn here
• Learn more about Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary here

Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Abyss of Mercy and Source of every grace and blessing, I consecrate and unite myself to You without exception or reserve – all that I am and all that I have, both temporal and spiritual, past, present, and future, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your Mother. I leave myself entirely at Your disposal with complete confidence in Your Mercy and Love, and beg You to look upon my offering and use me for Your own glory, for the honor of Your Mother, and for the salvation of souls.  Help me to seek You alone in all things. Hide me in the shelter of Your Most Sacred Heart and be my only consolation and refuge.

Grant me the graces I need to joyfully accept the Cross daily, to lead a holy life, and to die a holy death in Your service. Help me to trust completely in Your Mercy and Love and never to fear to humbly throw myself before the infinite ocean of mercy which is Your Most Sacred Heart. Through this weak and miserable instrument that I am, may Your Mercy, Love, glory and power shine forth. Above all, set my heart on fire with the Flame of Love which burns in Your Most Sacred Heart, and teach me how to return love for Your Love. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on me. I put all my trust in You.

Prayer for consecrating one’s family:

Prostrate before You, Lord Jesus Christ, we consecrate to Your Sacred Heart ourselves and everything dear to us: our thoughts, words and actions; our sorrows, our hopes, our relatives and friends. We desire to belong entirely to You, to know all things, and to despise the pleasures, riches and honors of this world and everything which could be an obstacle in Your service.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, teach us, by Your example in the stable of Bethlehem and by Your whole life, meekness and humility. Teach us, by Your agony and sufferings on the Cross, patience and resignation to the holy Will of God. Teach us, in the mystery of the holy Eucharist, to admire Your power, wisdom and love. Three hundred years ago, You revealed to Saint Margaret Mary Your desire to receive the special homage of Your creatures. In obedience to that divine entreaty, behold us at Your feet to consecrate to Your service and love our hearts, our family and our home in a special manner.

Heart of Jesus, in the name of Mary and under the patronage of Saint Joseph we consecrate to You our whole household. Like Nazareth, may it always be a centre of faith, hope, charity and peace; a hive of prayer and true zeal for Your glory. Guide our lives, direct our steps, and sustain us in all our ways. We earnestly consecrate to You all the trials, afflictions, joys and events of our domestic life.

We beseech You to pour Your blessing upon every member of this family: those who are gathered here and those who are absent; those who are living and those who are dead. With confidence, we entrust them all to You. If, among them, there be any who have lost Your grace and grieved Your loving Heart by sin, with deepest sorrow we now desire to offer reparation and implore forgiveness for them.

We beg Your mercy and grace, also, for every family in the whole world. O Sacred Heart, shelter the cradle of the newborn babe; bless the child at school; guide the vocation of young men and women; sweeten the lot of the sufferer; support the aged; console the widow; be a Father to the orphan.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, we entrust to You our own dear country and all those, who govern us.

O Jesus, source and infinite ocean of mercy, we beseech You assist us in the sufferings and agony of death. Unite us, then, still more closely to Your Heart and to the Heart of Your Immaculate Mother. Be our refuge and our place of rest; and when our souls have taken their flight to dwell for ever in Your Sacred Heart, may we see again in heaven every member of this family which we now so earnestly and unitedly desire to consecrate without reserve to You. Amen.