157. Act of Consecration of B. Margaret

Mary. i. 300 Days, once a day. ii. Plenary, once a month. I, II, III, IV. (See Instructions, p. 1.) N.N., give and consecrate to the Sacred Heart , of our Lorp Jesus CHRIST my person and my life, my actions, penances, and sufferings, not wishing to make use of any part of my being for the future except in honouring, loving, and glori- fying that Sacred Heart. It is my irrevocable will to be entirely his, and 156 Leo XIII, December 19, 1885. 157 Leo XIII, January 13, 1898 ; Pius X, May 3o, 1908. THE SACRED HEART 139 to do everything for his love, renouncing with my whole heart whatever might displease Him. I take Thee then, O most Sacred Heart, as the sole object of my love, as the protector of my life, as the pledge of my salvation, as the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, as the repairer of all the defects of my life, and as my secure refuge in the hour of death. Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before Gop the FATHER, and remove far from me the thunderbolts of his just wrath.

O Heart ot love, I place my whole confidence in Thee. While I fear all things from my malice and frailty, I hope all things from thy goodness. Consume then in me whatever can displease or be opposed to Thee, and may thy pure love be so deeply impressed upon my heart that it may be impossible that I should ever be separated from Thee, oPforset Thee; I implore Thee, by all thy goodness, that my name may be written in Thee, for in Thee I wish to place all my happiness and all my glory, living: and dying in very bondage to Thee. Amen