June For Jesus - John Paul II Renewal Center

**What a wonderful way to spread awareness and devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus –> All while countering the secular devotion to pride that is pervasive in our society.**

Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee. I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted servants.

Amen.

(Learn More about The Sacred Heart below)

**With a free-will offering (That helps us spread awareness and devotion to The Sacred Heart) you’ll receive blessed promotional items to help reclaim the month of June.**

YARD SIGNS (1.5 ft x 2 ft)

CAR MAGNETS (5.75″)

WINDOW CLINGS (5″)

CAR FLAGS (9″x14″)

PRAYER CARDS (3″x 5″)

GET MY BLESSED SACRED HEART GEAR

Upon making your donation (online or via check) please specify what items and quantities you desire.
Items are shipped via USPS beginning the 3rd week of May.
If you desire a different method or quicker turnaround, please contact us.
If you desire international shipping or to ship to multiple addresses, please contact us to coordinate as additional costs will be incurred.
All donations are tax deductible. There is no obligation to donate.
Processing fees when donating by credit card is additional. To avoid processing fees, consider donating by check.
This is an initiative of The John Paul II Renewal Center, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. FEIN number: 45-3839387
Questions: SacredHeart@JP2Renew.org

Want Larger Quantities For Your Church, School, or Group?

Download the Bulk Pricing Sheet For More Information

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, consists of five basic elements that renew the covenantal love between God and humanity:

Thirty-Three Visits: A practice of visiting Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament (or in the poor) thirty-three times to console His Heart and repair the relationship with Christ.
The Image of the Sacred Heart: The veneration of the image of the Sacred Heart through enthronement in homes and the wearing of a badge to publicly honor the devotion.
Nine First Fridays: The requirement to receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months to make reparation for sins committed against the Sacred Heart.
Thursday Night Holy Hour: Keeping a Holy Hour each Thursday night (between 11:00 PM and midnight) lying prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament to console Jesus during His agony in the Garden.
The Feast of the Sacred Heart: The annual celebration of the solemnity of the Sacred Heart, observed on the second Friday after Trinity Sunday, which was instituted by Pope Pius IX in 1856 (universal) and later associated with the World Day of Prayer for Priests.

These five aspects were given during four specific apparitions of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque between 1673 and 1675 at Paray-le-Monial, France.

The devotion focuses on adoring the immense love of God and making reparation for the ingratitude humans show toward that love.

ACT OF REPARATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

(Published with the Encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, May 8, 1928, by His Holiness Pope Pius XI.)

**A partial indulgence is granted to those who recite this prayer.

**A plenary indulgence is granted if it is publicly recited on the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.

Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offenses, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the promises of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law. We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints.

We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy priests are subjected; for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded.

Would, O Divine Jesus, that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honor, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thine Eternal Father on the cross and which Thou continuest to renew daily on our altars; we offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past.

Henceforth, we will live a life of unwavering faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and especially that of charity. We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.

O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with the Father and the Holy Ghost Thou livest and reignest, God, world without end.

Amen.

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO
THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Issued on October 17, 1925 by His Holiness Pope Pius XI.

Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy sacred Heart.

Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to Thy Father’s house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.

Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy toward the children of that race, once Thy chosen people.

Of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.

Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: “Praise to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to It be glory and honor forever.”

Amen.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom come!

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.

The Practice of the Devotion of the First Friday of Each Month

Our Lord asked of Sister Margaret Mary that the First Friday of each month be designated as a day consecrated to honoring His Sacred Heart. The dispositions and motives for the First Friday Communion are the same as on the Feast of the Sacred Heart – honoring Our Lord’s Sacred Heart by making reparation for the outrages which He has suffered and still suffers daily in the Blessed Sacrament.

The devotional practices for the First Fridays are similar to those for the feast of the Sacred Heart:

• Visiting (or making a spiritual visit to) the Blessed Sacrament the night before, reading and meditating on Our Lord’s Sacred Heart, His love for us, His Passion and death;

• On the First Friday offering all our actions to Our Lord and consecrating them to His Sacred Heart;

• Visiting Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament (the five visits recommended for the Feast of the Sacred Heart should be made if possible and for the same intentions; if five separate visits are not possible, then a single visit for the five intentions may be made);

• Going to Confession; assisting at Mass and receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion;

• Reciting the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart and the Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart;

• Other suggested means of making reparation by honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus are praying the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, praying the Litany of the Sacred Heart, meditating on Our Lord’s Passion and death, giving alms and doing extra penances.

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven, …Have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God, the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father,
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Ghost in
the womb of the Virgin Mother,
Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God,
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty,
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God,
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High,
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of
Heaven,
Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of charity,
Heart of Jesus, abode of justice and love,
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love,
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues,
Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise,
Heart of Jesus, King and center of all hearts,
Heart of Jesus, in whom are all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge,
Heart of Jesus, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity,
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well
pleased,
Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all
received,
Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills,
Heart of Jesus, patient and most merciful,
Heart of Jesus, enriching all who invoke Thee,
Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness,
Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, loaded down with reproaches,
Heart of Jesus, bruised for our offenses,
Heart of Jesus, obedient unto death,
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance,
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation,
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection,
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation,
Heart of Jesus, victim for sin,
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who trust in Thee,
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee,
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the saints,

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of
the world, …Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of
the world, …Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the
world, …Have mercy on us.

r Jesus, meek and humble of Heart,
v Make our hearts like unto Thine.

Let us pray.

Almighty and everlasting God, look upon the Heart of Thy most beloved Son and
upon the praises and satisfaction which He
offers Thee in the name of sinners; and do
Thou, in Thy great goodness, grant pardon to
those who seek Thy mercy, in the name of the
same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and
reignheth with Thee, world without end.
Amen

Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
I will give peace in their families.
I will console them in all their troubles.
I will be their refuge in life and especially in death.
I will abundantly bless all their undertakings.
Sinners shall find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
Tepid souls shall become fervent.
Fervent souls shall rise speedily to great perfection.
I will bless those places wherein the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated.
I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.
Persons who propagate this devotion shall have their names eternally written in my Heart.
In the excess of the mercy of my Heart, I promise you that my all powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the first Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the grace of final repentance: They will not die in my displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; and my Heart will be their secure refuge in that last hour.

What a wonderful way to spread awareness and devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus –> All while countering the secular devotion to pride that is pervasive in our society.

With a free-will offering (That helps us spread awareness and devotion to The Sacred Heart) you’ll receive blessed promotional items to help reclaim the month of June.