Prayer to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

PRAYER TO THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS

Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,

gracious companion of our exile,

I adore Thee.

Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
lonely Heart,
humiliated Heart,
abandoned Heart,
forgotten Heart,
despised Heart,
outraged Heart,
Heart ignored by men,
Heart which loves our own hearts;
Heart pleading for our love,
Heart so patient in waiting for us,
Heart so eager to listen to our prayers,
Heart so anxious for our requests,
Heart, unending source of new graces,
Heart so silent, yet desiring to speak to souls,
Heart, welcome refuge of the hidden life,
Heart, teacher of the secrets of union with God,
Heart of Him Who sleeps but watches always,
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Jesus Victim, I desire to comfort Thee;
I unite myself to Thee;
I offer myself in union with Thee.

I regard myself as nothing in Thy Presence.

I long to forget myself in order to think only of Thee,

to be despised and forgotten for love of Thee.

I have no desire to be understood or loved by anyone but Thee.

I will keep silent in order to listen to Thee,

and I will abandon myself in order to lose myself in Thee.

Grant that I may thus satisfy Thy thirst for my salvation,

Thy burning thirst for my holiness,
and that once purified I may give Thee a sincere and pure love.

I am anxious not to tire Thee further with waiting:

take me, I hand myself over to Thee.

I give Thee all my actions,

my mind to be enlightened,

my heart to be directed,

my will to be stabilized,

my wretchedness to be relieved,

my soul and body to be nourished by Thee.

Eucharistic Heart of my Saviour,

Whose Blood is the life of my soul,

may I myself cease to live
and Thou alone live in me. Amen.