On November 9, 1921, Pope Benedict XV instituted the feast of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, to be celebrated, with its own Mass and Office, on a Thursday within the octave of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The date continues to be observed in some places and communities, notably among the Redemptorists, who keep it on their own calendar.
Indulgence of 500 days. Cf. Leo XIII, Brief, February 6, 1899; Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, November 8, 1934. Today, the 500 days have been replaced by a partial indulgence, without a specific period of time being associated with it.
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
sweet companion of our exile,
I adore you.
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
Lonely Heart,
Humiliated Heart,
Abandoned Heart,
Forgotten Heart,
Despised Heart,
Insulted Heart,
Heart ignored by men,
Heart that loves our hearts;
Heart that implores our love,
Heart so patient in waiting for us,
Heart so eager to hear our prayers,
Heart so anxious for our supplications,
Heart, inexhaustible source of new graces,
Heart so silent, yet eager to speak to souls,
Heart, welcoming refuge of the hidden life,
Heart, master of the secrets of union with God,
Heart of the one who sleeps, yet always watches,
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Victim,
I wish to comfort you;
I unite myself to you;
I offer myself in union with You.
I see myself as nothing in Your presence.
I long to forget myself and think only of You,
to be despised and forgotten for love of You.
I desire to be understood or loved by no one but You.
I will be silent to listen to You,
and I will abandon myself to lose myself in You.
Grant me to satisfy Your thirst for my salvation,
Your burning thirst for my holiness,
and that, once purified, I may give You a pure and sincere love.
I am anxious not to tire You any longer with waiting:
take me, I surrender myself to You.
I give You all my actions,
my mind to be enlightened,
my heart to be directed,
my will to be strengthened,
my misery to be relieved,
my soul and body to be nourished by You.
Eucharistic Heart of my Savior,
whose Blood is the life of my soul,
may I cease to live and only You live in me.
Amen.
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