The EUCHARISTIC HEART of JESUS
On the Thursday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart or 3rd Thursday after Pentecost
On 9 November 1921, Pope Benedict XV instituted the feast of the Eucharistic Heart of JESUS to be celebrated on the Thursday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart with a Proper Mass and Office. The feast continues to be celebrated in some places and by some communities, notably by the Redemptorists who maintain it in their proper calendar.
In instituting the feast, Pope Benedict XV wrote:
”The chief reason of this feast is to commemorate the Love of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST in the Mystery of the Eucharist. By this means the Church wishes more and more to excite the faithful to approach this sacred Mystery with confidence, and to inflame their hearts with that Divine Charity which consumed the Sacred Heart of JESUS when in His infinite love HE instituted the Most Holy Eucharist, wherein the Divine Heart guards and loves them by living with them, as they live and abide in HIM. For in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist HE offers and gives Himself to us as victim, companion, nourishment, viaticum, and pledge of our future glory.”
HYMNS
Prayer to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
gracious companion of our exile, I adore Thee.
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)
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Litany in Reparation to Our LORD in the Eucharist
(For private use)
LORD, have Mercy on us. * LORD , Have Mercy on us
CHRIST, have Mercy on us. *CHRIST, have Mercy on us.
LORD, 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, * Have mercy on us.
GOD the HOLY SPIRIT, * Have mercy on us.
HOLY TRINITY, One GOD, * Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, offered for the Salvation of sinners, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, annihilated on the Altar for us and by us, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, despised by lukewarm Christians, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, mark of contradiction, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, delivered over to Jews and heretics, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, insulted by blasphemers, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, Bread of Angels, given to animals, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, flung into the mud and trampled underfoot, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, dishonored by unfaithful priests, *Have mercy on us.
Sacred Host, forgotten and abandoned in Thy Churches, *Have mercy on us.
Be merciful unto us, *Have mercy on us.
Be merciful unto us, *Have mercy on us.
For the outrageous contempt of this most wonderful Sacrament, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For Thine extreme humiliation in Thine admirable Sacrament, *We offer Thee our reparation
For all unworthy Communions, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the irreverence of wicked Christians, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the profanation of Thy sanctuaries, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the holy ciboriums dishonored and carried away by force, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the continual blasphemies of impious men, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the obduracy and treachery of heretics, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the unworthy conversations carried on in Thy holy Temples, *We offer Thee our reparation.
For the profaners of Thy Churches which they have desecrated by their sacrileges, *We offer Thee our reparation.
That it may please Thee to increase in all Christians the reverence due to this adorable Mystery, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
That it may please Thee to manifest the Sacrament of Thy Love to heretics, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
That it may please Thee to grant us the Grace to atone for their hatred by our burning love for Thee, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
That it may please Thee that the insults of those who outrage Thee may rather be directed against ourselves, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
That it may please Thee graciously to receive this our humble reparation, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
That it may please Thee to make our adoration acceptable to Thee, *we beseech Thee, hear us.
Pure Host, *hear our prayer.
Holy Host, *hear our prayer.
Immaculate Host, *hear our prayer.
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.
LORD, have Mercy on us. *LORD, have Mercy on us.
CHRIST, have mercy on us. *CHRIST, have mercy on us.
LORD, have mercy on us. *LORD, have Mercy on us.
V. See, O LORD, our affliction,
R. And give glory to Thy Holy Name.
Let us pray:
O LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who dost deign to remain with us in Thy wonderful Sacrament to the end of the world, in order to give to Thy FATHER, by the memory of Thy Passion, eternal Glory, and to give to us the Bread of life everlasting: Grant us the grace to mourn, with a heart full of sorrow, over the injuries which Thou hast received in this adorable Mystery, and over the many sacrileges which are committed by the impious, by heretics and by bad Catholics.
Inflame us with an ardent zeal to repair all these insults to which,
in Thine infinite mercy, Thou hast preferred to expose Thyself
rather than deprive us of Thy Presence on our altars, Who with God
the Father and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest one God,
world without end.
R. Amen.