Sacred Heart Novena
-- Third Day
Christ of the tender and loving heart...
The Infant heart that beat with the impulse of love on Christmas ...
The heart that yearned over the world, which was dark in ignorance and wandering in sin ...
The heart that leaped in response to the love of Mary and knew the warmth of a devoted Son for the foster father who guarded Him tenderly...
The heart that could hardly wait for the beginnings of His work among men ...
The heart that wept over the lost multitudes ...
The heart of the Good Shepherd searching for His lost sheep.
The heart that speaks in the poetry of the parables and the strength of the sermons ...
The heart that yearned for sinners and drove the Savior questing for them far into the night ...
The heart that raised the widow's son from death.
The heart that selected twelve men as intimate friends and then responded gratefully to the love of the innocent John ...
The heart that poured itself out in miracles of healing and forgiveness and mercy and loving kindness ...
This is the Sacred Heart of the historic Savior.
To this heart we say:
O God, who in the heart of thy Son, wounded by our sins, dost deign mercifully to bestow upon us the infinite treasures of thy love, grant, we beseech thee, that we who now pay Him the devout homage of our piety may also perform the duty of worthy satisfaction. Through the same Jesus Christ, Our Lord, who livest and reignest with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Amen.
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