First Friday january 5, 2024 

Guards of Honor 1st Friday / January 2024 Fr. David Bellusci, OP 

“My Heart has expected reproach and misery and I looked for one who would grieve together with Me, but there was none; and for one that would comfort me, and I found none!” (Ps. 68)

“BEHOLD THE HEART WHICH HAS SUFFERED SO MUCH!”

Sacred Heart of Jesus, may my heart be consumed by your love.

We can start our new year with the short Act of Consecration that appears in St. Margaret Mary’s letter to Sister Félice-Madeleine

de la Barge at Moulins written in 1686. The prayer reads as follows:

I (Name) give and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, so that I may no longer wish to make use of any part of my being except to honour, love, and glorify Him. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Him, and to do everything for His love, and I renounce with all my heart anything that can be displeasing to Him. I take, thee, then, O Sacred Heart, as the sole object of my love, the protector of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy for my infirmities, the reparation for all the sins of my life and my sure refuge at the hour of my death. Be then, O Heart of Goodness, my justification with God the Father, and turn aside the blows of His just wrath. O Heart of Love, I place all my confidence in Thee. I fear everything from my malice but hope everything from Thy goodness. Consume in me everything that can displease and resist Thee. May Thy pure love impress Thee so deeply in my heart that I can never forget Thee, nor ever be separated from Thee. I conjure Thee by Thy boundless goodness to write my name in Thy Sacred Heart for I wish to live and die as Thy slave. 

Amen.

Prayer to Renew Our Fidelity and Devotion 

Divine Jesus, my Saviour and my King, with all my heart I renew the promise which I have made to love, to glorify and to console Your adorable Heart as a member of the Guard of Honor. Grant O good Master, to make me daily more loving, more devoted and more faithful. I ask this same grace for all the Associates through the Immaculate Heart of Your Mother. AMEN