Let us pray to the Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, who honoured the world with His love.

 Father of Mercy, You sent your Son into the world for its salvation, and you made Him the sovereign on Your creation. May the fire of love burning in his Heart spread into the whole world, and consume it as a praise to your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 

1 Letter of St. John 4: 7-16

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

Meditation with Charles de Foucauld:

Christianism enlightens us by displaying before eyes the sweetest, the brightest, the warmest, the most benevolent truth: the truth of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The revelation of this truth is the revelation of God's love for us. We aren't forsaken, forgotten, alone on the path of the cross, the path of Jesus: there is a Heart that loves us, there we are loved at any moment: before we existed, a Heart loved us of an eternal love, and will continue to love us with the warmest love throughout our lives.  

This Heart is perfect, pure as light, innocent as angels, unsullied. The divine intelligence shines inside of it, and it glows from all beauty and perfection: it's the Heart of Jesus, the Heart of God made man. 

Closing Prayer

Lord Jesus, you love the sinners, and in your mercy you forgive them. We ask you, in the name of your love, help them get closer to your Heart, and find in it a source of mercy and forgiveness for our sins, you who live and reign in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  

Pray the Sacred Heart Chaplet. Here's how to proceed:

• Begin with the following prayer on the Crucifix (written by St. Ignatius of Loyola, or St. Thomas of Aquinas): 

'Soul of Christ, sanctify me/Body of Christ, save me/Blood of Christ, inebriate me/Water from the side of Christ, wash me/Passion of Christ, strengthen me/O Good Jesus, hear me/Within your wounds, hide me/Permit me not to be separated from you/From the wicked foe, defend me/At the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you/That with your saints I may praise you forever and ever. Amen.

• On the large beads say:

'O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love you more and more.'

• On the small beads say:

'Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love.'

• At the end of each decade, say:

'Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation'. 

• Upon completing the chaplet, say:

'May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be blessed, adored and praised with grateful affection, at every moment in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time.'