{"id":26691,"date":"2011-10-16T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:15:04","slug":"saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-margaret-mary-alacoque-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>The feast day of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque is a fitting reminder of our seeking the Heart of Jesus. What else is the Christian journey the seeking the Heart of Christ??? Or more precisely, allowing the Heart of Jesus to seek us. That He, the Lord, wants to be in a relationship with us personally and forever. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the famous nun of the Order of the Visitation of the 17th century, gives us a personal witness to the deep love Christ had for her, and she had for Him. I encourage you to spend a few moments in prayer with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is not a quaint devotion of a former time. Is it is as Mother Dolores Hart, OSB said, &#8220;love (faith) is an\u00a0<i>antagonism for life<\/i>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"St. Margaret Mary Alacoque3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/St. Margaret Mary Alacoque3-thumb-250x388-10374.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><b>Prayer of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I give myself and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our\u00a0Lord Jesus Christ, my person and my life, my actions, pains, and sufferings, so\u00a0that I may be unwilling to make use of any part of my being other than to\u00a0honor, love and glorify the Sacred Heart. This is my unchanging purpose,\u00a0namely, to be all His, and to do all things for the love of Him, at the same\u00a0time renouncing with all my heart whatever is displeasing to Him. I therefore\u00a0take You, O Sacred heart, to be the only object of my love, the guardian of my\u00a0life, my assurance of salvation, the remedy of my weakness and inconstancy, the\u00a0atonement for all the faults of my life and my sure refuge at the hour of\u00a0death.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before God the Father,\u00a0and turn away from me the strokes of his righteous anger. O Heart of love, I\u00a0put all my confidence in You, for I fear everything from my own wickedness and\u00a0frailty, but I hope for all things from Your goodness and bounty.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Remove from\u00a0me all that can displease You or resist Your holy will; let your pure love\u00a0imprint Your image so deeply upon my heart, that I shall never be able to\u00a0forget You or to be separated from You.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May I obtain from all Your loving\u00a0kindness the grace of having my name written in Your Heart, for in You I desire\u00a0to place all my happiness and glory, living and dying in bondage to You.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><!--EndFragment--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feast day of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque is a fitting reminder of our seeking the Heart of Jesus. What else is the Christian journey the seeking the Heart of Christ??? Or more precisely, allowing the Heart of Jesus to seek us. 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