Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Nine
Day Nine: love that brings rest, peace, and joy. Opening Prayer: Father, we rejoice in the gifts of love we have received from the Heart of Jesus your Son. Open our hearts to share His life and continue to bless us with His love. We ask this through Christ our Lord....
Beyond the Convent Doors
By Josepha. Something that I really struggled with after leaving the convent was an overwhelming sense of shame and embarrassment that I had entered that life and then not stuck it through to the end. Â I felt divorced from God and distanced from all the people who had...
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Eight
Day Eight: Love that reaches out to the poor and needy. Opening Prayer: Father, we honor the Heart of your Son broken by our cruelty, yet the symbol of love's triumph, the pledge of all we are called to be. Teach us to see Jesus Christ in the lives we touch, to offer...
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Seven
Day Seven: Love that is patient and forgiving. Opening Prayer: Father, we have wounded the heart of Jesus your Son, but He brings us forgiveness and grace. Help us to prove our grateful love and make amends for our sins. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen....
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Six
Day Six: Love that is active, practical, and effective. Opening Prayer: Father, for Your glory and our salvation, You appointed Jesus Christ eternal High Priest. May the people He gained for your by His blood come to share in the power of His cross and resurrection....
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Five
Day Five: Love that unites and binds together into community. Opening Prayer: Loving Father, when your Son Jesus Christ was lifted high on the cross, He gave His life for us, so much did He love us. From His wounded side flowed blood and water, the fountain of...
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Four
Day Four: Love that is persevering, enduring to the end. Opening Prayer: Father, by the blood of your own Son, Jesus Christ, you have set us free and saved us from death. Continue your work of love within us, that by constantly celebrating the mystery of our...
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Three
Day Three: Love that is Universal, Extending to All Opening Prayer: God our Father, in obedience to you, your only Son Jesus Christ accepted death on the cross for the salvation of humankind. We acknowledge the mystery of the cross on earth. May we receive the gift...
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Day Two
Day Two: Love that is Sensitive and Responsive Opening Prayer:Â Lord God, give us the strength and love of the heart of your Son Jesus, that, by becoming one with him, we may have eternal salvation. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen. Scripture Reading:Â 1 John...
Sacred Heart of Jesus – Praying with Leonie!
Dear Sisters in Christ, I do not think it is a coincidence that today, the Birthday of Leonie Martin, is the first day of the Novena to Sacred Heart, leading up to the Solemnity on Friday, June 8th. Leonie was a Visitation Sister, the very same order as Saint Margaret...
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