Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart in Latin

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I love praying the Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart (you know, the one Padre Pio prayed every day?). I’ve only recently begun praying some of my prayers in Latin in order to feel more connected to the faithful across time and space who have used the same prayers.

But I cannot find the official translation of the Efficacious Novena in Latin. Is there a repository somewhere of official prayers in Latin?
 
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I’m sorry!! My mistake thank you for pointing it out!
 
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Yes, thank you for this, but Tis_Bearself is correct. It’s not the Efficacious Novena which includes three “Oh My Jesus, you have said…” and three Our Fathers, Hail Marys, and Glory Bes, before finishing with a concluding “Oh Sacred Heart of Jesus” prayer composed by St Margaret Mary Alacoque, I believe.
 
I don’t think there is an official Latin translation. I tried translating the English version into a few different Latin permutations and Googling, but didn’t turn up anything. I surmise that, like the Fatima Prayer (which was originally in Portuguese), there exists no “official” Latin version. Based on the style of the English translation of this particular novena, I think the original is likely in Italian due to some of the idioms.

Nonetheless, here is my Latin translation (using the Clementine Vulgate for Scriptural quotations):

I. O mi Iesu, dixisti: ‘Amen dico vobis, petite et dabitur vobis, quaerite et invenietis, pulsate et aperietur vobis.’ Ecce pulso, quaero et peto gratiam (name your request here) Pater noster… Ave Maria… Gloria Patri.

II. O mi Iesu, dixisti: ‘Amen dico vobis, si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo, dabit vobis.’ Ecce, in nomine tuo, peto Patrem gratiam (name your request here) Pater noster… Ave Maria… Gloria Patri.

III. O mi Iesu, dixisti: ‘Amen dico vobis, caelum et terra transibunt, verba autem mea non praeteribunt.’ Ecce, in verbis infallibilibus tuis consulatus (or consulata if female) sum, itaque nunc peto gratiam… (name your request here) Pater noster… Ave Maria… Gloria Patri.

O Sacrum Cor Iesu, quem non miserere infelicium impossibile est, miserere nostri miserabilium peccatorum et da nobis gratiam quam petimus te, per Dolorosum et Immaculatum Cor Mariae, Mater pia tua et nostra.

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Thank you for this!

I wonder if St Margaret Mary Alacoque’s prayer at the end was originally in French and was also never translated officially.
 
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