Skip to the text
Ember
PT

Novena to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Oct 7–15

10 min
Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

Novena to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Opening prayer:

St. Margaret Mary, faithful confidante of the Sacred Heart, who beheld the furnace of love burning for sinners, draw me close to that wounded Heart. Teach me to console Him by my love, and obtain for me the grace I implore in this novena. Amen.

Read the meditation and offer the intention of the day.

Day 1: The Heart that loves us

Jesus showed St. Margaret Mary His Heart as a burning furnace of love, surrounded by thorns and crowned with the cross. He revealed that His one desire is to be loved in return by the souls for whom He gave everything. 'Behold this Heart which has so loved men,' He said, opening to her the very wellspring of mercy, that we might at last understand how deeply and personally we are loved.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, furnace of love that gave everything for me, kindle my cold heart with Your fire. By the grace shown to St. Margaret Mary, let me grasp how deeply You love me, and may my whole life become a return of love to the Heart that loved me first. Amen.

Today's intention:

For the grace to return love to the Heart of Jesus who loves us first.

Pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

Closing prayer:

St. Margaret Mary, apostle of the Sacred Heart and model of reparation, intercede that I may take refuge in the Heart of Jesus all the days of my life. May I love Him who has so loved us, and trust the promises He revealed through you for every faithful soul. Amen.

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

About this prayer

A nine-day novena to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the humble Visitation nun to whom Christ revealed the riches of His Sacred Heart. Through her example we learn to love His Heart, to make reparation, and to trust His twelve great promises.

History

Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in Burgundy, France, in 1647, and from childhood was drawn to suffering and to the presence of God. At twenty-four she entered the Order of the Visitation at Paray-le-Monial, where between 1673 and 1675 the Lord Jesus appeared to her and revealed His Sacred Heart, burning with love for humanity yet wounded by ingratitude. He entrusted to her the devotion of reparation, the Holy Hour, the Communion of the First Fridays, and the Twelve Promises for those who honor His Heart. Aided by her Jesuit director St. Claude de la Colombière, she spread this devotion despite ridicule and resistance, and died in 1690. She was canonized in 1920, and the feast of the Sacred Heart became one of the great devotions of the universal Church.

How to pray it

Pray once each day for nine consecutive days. Begin with the Sign of the Cross and the opening prayer, prayerfully read the meditation and offer the day's intention, then conclude with an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be, and the closing prayer.

Found in