Reparation to the Sacred Heart

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What are some practical, everyday ways of making reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
 
The first thing that popped into my mind… was the “Little Way” of St. Therese of Lisieux.

To just offer all of our little (or big) daily sufferings and sacrifices to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of souls.

I don’t know if this helps, but it’s certainly something we can all do.

God bless.
 
  • Offering Mass and Holy Communion in reparation
  • Offering your daily works and sacrifices
  • Making the 9 First Fridays (Confession and Holy Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months in reparation; the confession can be a few days before or after if not available on Friday)
  • Praying the Litany of the Sacred Heart
 
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *

Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.

St. Margaret Mary (1647-1690) received revelations and apparitions from the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ like St. Gertrude. newadvent.org/cathen/07163a.htm Her confessor, after hearing these, consecrated himself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus himself and told her to write them down, and attempted to circulate this account through France and England. At his death, they found this account plus his reflections on the usefulness of the devotion. Outside of the Vistantines (her order), laymen, priests, and religious espoused the devotion, especially Father Croiset.

The devotion is for free here:
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesusen.wikisource.org/wiki/Devotion_to_the_Sacred_Heart_of_Jesus#FIRST_POINT._.E2.80.94_The_ardent_desire_Jesus_Christ_feels_to_be_with_us.

The Divine Mercy chaplet is another devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Information on saying it is for free here:
Divine Mercy Chapletewtn.com/Devotionals/mercy/dmmap.htm

Furthermore, the Most Holy Rosary and True Devotion to Mary are a great means of devoting oneself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. By going through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we enrich, purify, and embellish whatever we were already going to give to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so that he does not reject it because of our sinfulness or its pitiful nature. Like a Queen putting a peasant’s measly apple on an exquisite golden plate before presenting it to the King. It is more humble to go through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, an intermediary, than to go directly to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in the Bible is say, “Likewise you younger people. Submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another and be clothed in humility for *“God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. *” Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon him for he cares for you.”(1 Peter 5:5-7)

Excerpt from St. Louis Mary de Montfort,
222. If you live this devotion sincerely, you will give more glory to Jesus in a month than in many years of a more demanding devotion. Here are my reasons for saying this:
  1. Since you do everything through the Blessed Virgin as required by this devotion, you naturally lay aside your own intentions no matter how good they appear to you. You abandon yourself to Our Lady’s intentions even though you do not know what they are. Thus you share in the high quality of her intentions which are so pure that she gave more glory to God by the smallest of her actions, say, twirling her distaff or making a stitch, than did St. Laurence suffering his cruel martyrdom on the grid-iron, and even more than all the saints together in all their most heroic deeds! Mary amassed such a multitude of merits and graces during her sojourn on earth that it would be easier to count the stars in heaven, the drops of water in the ocean or the sands of the sea-shore than count her merits and graces She thus gave more glory to God than all the angels and saints have given or will ever give him. Mary, wonder of God, when souls abandon themselves to you, you cannot but work wonders in them!
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.

*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
 
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *

Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
**223. ** 2) In this devotion we set no store on our own thoughts and actions but are content to rely on Mary’s dispositions when approaching and even speaking to Jesus. We then act with far greater humility than others who, imperceptibly, rely on their own dispositions and are self-satisifed about them; and consequently we give greater glory to God, for perfect glory is given to him only by the lowly and humble of heart.
**224. ** 3) Our Blessed Lady, in her immense love for us, is eager to receive into her virginal hands the gift of our actions, imparting to them a marvellous beauty and splendour, and presenting them herself to Jesus most willingly. More glory is given to our Lord in this way than when we make our offering with our own guilty hands.
**225. ** 4) Lastly, you never think of Mary without Mary thinking of God for you. You never praise or honour Mary without Mary joining you in praising and honouring God. Mary is entirely relative to God. Indeed I would say that she was relative only to God, because she exists uniquely in reference to him. She is an echo of God, speaking and repeating only God. If you say “Mary” she says “God.” When St. Elizabeth praised Mary calling her blessed because she had believed, Mary, the faithful echo of God, responded with her Canticle, “My soul glorifies the Lord.” What Mary did on that day, she does every day. When we praise her, when we love and honour her, when we present anything to her, then God is praised, honoured and loved, and receives our gift through Mary and in Mary.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!! Jesus, I trust in you!! May God glorify the Sacred Heart of Jesus through us and love through us. Jesus, I trust in you!! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!! May we receive the graces of the Holy Spirit, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that we most desperately need!! Jesus, I trust in you!! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!!

Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.

*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
 
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