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PERSONAL CONSECRATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

The Apostleship of Prayer promotes another individual consecration, that to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our section on the Sacred Heart of Jesus describes the forms of this devotion, but right now we want to focus on the act of consecration itself. The Heart of Christ is a symbolic, visual way to represent the essence of his work of redemption: Expressing the infinite Love of God for fallen humanity, Jesus Christ, the Lord, gave himself to us by his own sinless life, passion, death, and resurrection to save us from sin and death. So when we consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are consecrating ourselves, not just to his heart, but to his Heart, a symbol that comprises the whole Son of God, body, soul, and spirit, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, who dwells in perpetual unity with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Here is the Apostleship of Prayer's Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from one of our popular prayer cards:

Lord Jesus Christ, I want to give myself to you completely. When I see your Sacred Heart, I reflect upon your love. You came from the Father taking a human body with a human heart. You taught us to love God with all our hearts. You suffered and died to save us from sin and death. As you hung on the cross, your Heart was pierced by a lance. Out of it poured blood and water to signify the birth of your Church.

You rose from the dead, Jesus, to live forever with your Father in Heaven. But your heart is still pierced, full of love for us. You still feel pain when people reject or ignore your presence in your brothers and sisters. You rejoice when people heal that pain by serving your little ones, the poor and the needy.

I now consecrate myself to your Sacred Heart, Jesus. You are the Son of God whom I love with all my heart. I offer you my body, my soul, my mind, and my heart. Receive me, make me holy, make my heart like your Heart, and guide me in the way of perfect love today and every day of my life. Amen.

This prayer expresses our longing for identity with the Son of God, that our hearts may also be full of love so that, as Jesus did, we can live serving others, embrace God's will in our sufferings and death, and dwell forever with God in heaven.