Dear Lord, I adore your Sacred Heart, which I desire to enter with acts of love, praise, adoration, and thanksgiving. I offer you my own heart as I sigh to you from its very depths, asking that you will work through me in all that I do this day; thus may I draw you closer to me than you were before. I offer you all the crosses and sufferings of the world, in union with your life on earth, in expiation for sins. Please join my every action and heartbeat to the pulsations of your Heart. I unite all my works of this day to those labors you did perform while you were on earth, bathing them in your Precious Blood, and I offer them to the Heavenly Father so that many souls may be saved. Amen.
Saint Mechtilde
The closer we draw to God, the more we are overwhelmed with praise and gratitude. The love of God is something that we cannot measure, and cannot contain. Yet, the more we experience His love, the more we long to be filled with it.
And when we are filled with the love He gives, it creates in us a new heart for the suffering, the lost, and the broken. It is His love overflowing in us that spurs us on to share in His labors of mercy and grace, for the sake of others that He continues to draw to Himself.
