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Act of Adoration
Jesus, my God, I adore You, here present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, where You wait
day and night to be our comfort while we await Your unveiled presence in heaven. Jesus, my God, I adore You in all places
where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved and where sins are committed against this Sacrament of Love. Jesus, my God, I adore
You for all time, past, present and future, for every soul that ever was, is or shall be created. Jesus, my God, who for us
has endured hunger and cold, labor and fatigue, I adore You. Jesus, my God, who for my sake has deigned to subject Yourself
to the humiliation of temptation, to the perfidy and defection of friends, to the scorn of Your enemies, I adore You. Jesus,
my God, who for us has endured the buffeting of Your passion, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the heavy weight of
the cross, I adore You. Jesus, my God, who, for my salvation and that of all mankind, was cruelly nailed to the cross and
hung there for three long hours in bitter agony, I adore You. Jesus, My God, who for love of us did institute this Blessed
Sacrament and offer Yourself daily for the sins of men, I adore You. Jesus, my God, who in Holy Communion became the food
of my soul, I adore You. Jesus, for You I live. Jesus, for You I die. Jesus, I am Yours in life and death. Amen.
Act
of Charity
O my God, I love you above all things with my whole heart and soul because you are all good and worthy of all
my love.
I love my neighbor as myself for the love of you.
I forgive all who have injured me and ask pardon
of all whom I have injured. Amen.
Act of Consecration to Jesus
Lord Jesus Christ, I consecrate myself today
anew and without reserve to your divine Heart. I consecrate to you my body with all its senses, my soul with all its faculties,
my entire being. I consecrate to you all my thoughts, words and deeds, all my sufferings and labors, all my hopes, consolations
and joys. In particular I consecrate to you this poor heart of mine so that it may love only you and may be consumed as a
victim in the fire of your love.
I place my trust in you without reserve and I hope for the remission of my sins through
your infinite mercy. I place within your hands all my cares and anxieties. I promise to love you and to honor you till the
last moment of my life, and to spread, as much as I can, devotion to your most Sacred Heart.
Do with me what you will,
my Jesus. I deserve no other reward except your greater glory and your holy love. Take this offering of myself and give me
a place within your divine Heart forever. Amen.
Act of Consecration to Saint Joseph
O dearest Saint Joseph,
I consecrate myself to your honor and give myself to you, that you may always be my father, my protector and my guide in the
way of salvation. Obtain for me a greater purity of heart and fervent love of the interior life. After your example may I
do all my actions for the greater glory of God, in union with the Divine Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
O Blessed Saint Joseph, pray for me, that I may share in the peace and joy of your holy death. Amen.
Act of
Consecration to the Holy Ghost
On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I offer myself soul and body
to Thee, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Thy purity, the unerring keenness of Thy justice, and the might
of Thy love. Thou art the Strength and Light of my soul. In Thee I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve Thee by
unfaithfulness to grace, and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against Thee. Mercifully guard my every
thought and grant that I may always watch for Thy light and listen to Thy voice and follow Thy gracious inspirations. I cling
to Thee and give myself to Thee and ask Thee by Thy compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of
Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I
implore Thee Adorable Spirit, helper of my infirmity, so to keep me in Thy grace that I may never sin against Thee. Give me
grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son, to say to Thee always and everywhere, Speak Lord, for Thy servant heareth.
Amen.
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
I, a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today
in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism. I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works, and I give myself
entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful
to Him than I have ever been before.
In the presence of all the heavenly court, I choose thee this day for my Mother
and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as they slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and
even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future, leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of
me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and
in eternity. Amen.
Saint Louis de Montfort
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
O
Mary, Virgin most powerful and Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Refuge of Sinners, we consecrate ourselves to thy Immaculate
Heart. We consecrate to thee our very being and our whole life: all that we have, all that we love, all that we are. To thee
we give our bodies, our hearts, and our souls; to thee we give our homes, our families and our country. We desire that all
that is in us and around us may belong to thee and may share in the benefits of thy motherly blessing. And, that this act
of consecration may be truly fruitful and lasting, we renew this day at thy feet the promises of our Baptism and our First
Holy Communion. We pledge ourselves to profess courageously and at all times the truths of our holy Faith, and to live as
befits Catholics, who are submissive to all directions of the Pope and the bishops in communion with him. We pledge ourselves
to keep the Commandments of God and His Church, in particular to keep holy the Lord's Day. We pledge ourselves to make the
consoling practices of the Christian religion, and above all, Holy Communion, an important part of our lives, in so far as
we shall be able to do. Finally, we promise thee, O glorious Mother of God and loving Mother of men, to devote ourselves wholeheartedly
to the spreading of devotion to thy Immaculate Heart, in order to hasten and assure, through the queenly rule of thy Immaculate
Heart, the coming of the kingdom of the Sacred Heart of thy adorable Son, in our own hearts and in those of all men, in our
country, and in all the world, as in Heaven, so on earth. Amen.
Act of Contrition
O, my God, I am heartily
sorry for having offended you. I detest all my sins because of your just punishment, but most of all because they offend you,
my God, who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to sin no more and to
avoid the near occasion of sin.
Act of Contrition
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In
choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against you whom I should love above all things. I firmly intend,
with your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and
died for us. In his name, my God, have mercy
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am sorry for my sins because
I have offended you. I know I should love you above all things. Help me to do penance, to do better, and to avoid anything
that might lead me to sin. Amen.
Act of Contrition
O Lord Jesus, lover of our souls, who, for the great
love with which You loved us, willed not the death of a sinner, but rahter that he should be converted and live, I grieve
from the bottom of my heart that I offended You, my most loving Father and Redeemer, to whom all sin is infinitely displeasing,
who so loved that You she Your blood for me, and endured the bitter torments of a most cruel death. O my God, my inifinite
Goodness, would that I never offended You. Pardon me, O Lord Jesus, as I most humbly implore Your mercy. Have pity on a sinner
for whom Your blood pleads before the face of the Father.
O merciful and forgiving Lord, for the love of Your, I forgive
all who have ever offended me. I firmly resolve to forsake and flee from all sins, and to avoid the occasions of them, to
confess, in bitterness of spirit, all those sins which I committed against Your divine goodness, and to Love You, O my God,
for Your own sake, above all things and for ever. Grant me grace so to do, most gracious Lord Jesus. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Act of Contrition
Merciful Father, I am guilty of sin. I confess my sins before you and I am sorry for
them. Your promises are just; therefore I trust that you will forgive me my sins and cleanse me from every stain of sin. Jesus
himself is the proposition for my sins and those of the whole world. I put my hope in his atonement. May my sins be forgiven
through his name, and in his blood may my soul be made clean. Amen
Act of Faith
O my God, I firmly believe
that you are one God in three divine persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that your divine Son became man and died
for our sins, and that he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the holy catholic
Church teaches, because in revealing them you can neither deceive nor be deceived.
Act of Faith
I believe
in one God. I believe that God rewards the good and punishes the wicked. I believe that in God there are three Divine Persons
- God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I believe that God the Son became Man, without ceasing to be God.
I believe that he is my Lord and Savior, the Redeemer of the human race, that he died on the Cross for the salvation of all
men, that he died also for me.
I believe, on God's authority, everything that he has taught and revealed.
O
my God, give me strong faith. O my God, help me to believe with lively faith.
O my God, who are all-good and all-merciful,
I sincerely hope to be saved. Help me to do all that necessary for my salvation.
I have committed many sins in my
life, but now I turn away from them, and hate them. I am sorry, truly sorry for all of them, because I have offended you,
my God, who are all-good, all-perfect, all-holy, all-merciful and kind, and who died on the Cross for me.
I love you,
O my God, with all my heart. Please forgive me for having offended you.
I promise, O God, that with your help I will
never offend you again.
My God, have mercy on me.
Act of Faith ...in the Real Presence
My divine
Lord, I firmly believe that I am going to receive in Holy Communion you Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I believe this because
you have said it, and I am ready to maintain this truth at the peril of my life.
Act of Hope
O my God, relying
on Your almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Your grace and life
everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen.
Act of Hope
For your mercies'
sake, O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul: "I am your salvation." So speak that I may hear, O Lord;
my heart is listening; open it that it may hear you, and say to my soul: "I am your salvation." After hearing this word, may
I come in haste to take hold of you. Hide not your face from me. Let me see your face even if I die, lest I die with longing
to see it. The house of my soul is too small to receive you; let it be enlarged by uou. It is all in ruins; do you repair
it. There are thing in it - I confess and I know - that must offend your sight. But who shall cleanse it? Or to what others
besides you shall I cry out? From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord, and from those of others spare your servant. Amen. Saint
Augustine of Hippo
Act of Humility
O divine Lord, how shall I dare to approach you, I who have so often
offended you? No, Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof; but speak only the word and my soul shall be
healed.
Act of Love
O my God, I love You above all things with my whole heart and soul, because you are
all-good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of You. I forgive all who have injured me and ask
pardon of all whom I have injured. Amen.
Act of Love
O God, all that I am and all that I have is from you.
You have given me my gifts of body and soul. You have numbered me among your favored children. You have showered me with countless
graces and blessings. From all eternity you have thought of me and loved me. How shall I ever love you in return?
And
now in your merciful goodness you are coming into my soul to unit yourself most intimately with me. You came into the world
for love of man, but now you are coming from the altar for love of me. You are coming to fill me heart with your holy love,
my Creator, my Redeemer, my Sanctifier, my God.
O Jesus, I want to return this love. I want to love you with all the
powers of my soul. I want to belong only to you, to consecrate myself to you alone. Jesus, let me live for you; let me die
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Act of Love
O my divine Jesus, how shall I return you thanks for the goodness in giving yourself to me?
The only way I can repay your love is by loving you in return. Yes, my Lord, I love you, and I desire to love you all my life.
My Jesus, you alone are sufficient for me. Whom shall I love, if I love not you, my Jesus? You love those who love
you. I love you. Oh, do you also love me. If I love you but little, give me the love which you require of me.
O Mary,
my good Mother, and you glorious Saint Joseph, lend me your love wherewith to love my Jesus.
Act of Oblation
to the Sacred Heart
My loving Jesus, out of the grateful love I bear you, and to make reparation for my unfaithfulness
to grace, I give you my heart, and I consecrate myself wholly to you; and with your help I purpose never to sin again. Amen.
Act of Offering
O my divine Lord, I offer you my body and its senses, my soul and its faculties, my heart
and its sentiments. My thoughts, me desires, my words, my actions, my whole being are yours. Since you have given yourself
wholly to me, can I do less than give myself wholly to you? Grant me, O divine Jesus, to persevere in your holy love. Give
me a still greater sorrow for my past sins, and strengthen the sincere resolution I have formed never again to offend you.
Amen.
Act of Petition
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself to me. Behold I love you, and if my love
is too weak a thing, grant me to love you more strongly. I cannot measure my love to know how much it falls short of being
sufficient, but let my soul hasten to your embrace and never be turned away until it is hiddeen in the secret shelter of your
presence. This only do I know, that it is not good for me when you are not with me, when you are only outside me. I want you
in my very self. All the plenty in the world which is not my God is utter want. Amen.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Act
of Resignation
O Lord, my God, from this day I accept from your hand willingly and with submission, the kind of death that
it may please you to send me, with all its sorrows, pains, and anguish. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Act
of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that Thou art present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things
and I desire Thee in my soul. Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. As though
thou wert already there, I embrace Thee and unite myself wholly to Thee; permit not that I should ever be separated from Thee
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