Not only is Corpus Christi Day celebrated in June, but the Sacred Heart of Jesus is also commemorated on June 16. Therefore, we present to you the prayer dedicated to him on this day.
Every year in the month of June, especially on the 16th, the Catholic Church and its faithful celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The celebration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has its roots in Christ’s apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun, in 1673.
According to the story, Jesus would have asked St. Margaret that all Catholics celebrate the first Friday of each month, receiving Holy Communion and adoring Him in the Holy Eucharist. In addition, he would have requested a party in his honor. In 1675, Jesus expressed to St. Margaret His desire to have an annual feast dedicated to His Sacred Heart.
Finally, in 1865, Blessed Pope Pius IX instituted the Feast of the Sacred Heart, which is celebrated on the Friday following the octave of Corpus Christi each year.
The prayer to pray to the Sacred Heart on the day of its celebration is as follows:
“O Divine Jesus who said, ‘Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock and it will be opened to you; for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it is opened.”
Look at me prostrate to your plants begging you to grant me an audience. Your words give me confidence, especially now that I need you to do me a favor:
(One prays silently asking for the favor)
Whom shall I ask but you, whose Heart is an inexhaustible source of all graces and gifts? Where shall I look but in the treasure of your heart, which contains all the riches of divine clemency and generosity?
Where am I to knock but at the door of that Sacred Heart, through which God comes to us, and through which we go to God?
We come to you, O Heart of Jesus, because in you we find consolation, when afflicted and persecuted we ask for protection; when overwhelmed by the weight of our cross, we seek help; when anguish, illness, poverty or failure impel us to seek a force superior to human forces.
I firmly believe that you can grant me the grace I implore, because your mercy has no limits and I trust that your compassionate Heart will find in my miseries, in my tribulations and in my anxieties, one more reason to hear my request.
I want my heart to be filled with the confidence with which the Roman centurion prayed on behalf of his servant; of the confidence with which the sisters of Lazarus prayed, the lepers, the blind, the paralyzed who came to you because they knew that your ears and your Heart were always open to hear and remedy their evils.
However, I leave my request in your hands, knowing that you know things better than I do; and that, if you do not grant me this grace which I ask of you, you will give me instead another which my soul needs very much; And you will grant me to look at things, my situation, my problems, my whole life, from another angle, with a more spirit of faith.
Whatever your decision, I will never stop loving you, adoring you, and serving you, O good Jesus.
Accept this act of mine of perfect adoration and submission to what your merciful Heart decrees. Amen.”
An Our Father, a Hail Mary and Glory are also prayed.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You (repeated three times).