anger? Receive it, O merciful Father, in atonement for our many offences; it is most worthy of thy love and everlasting complacency. Amen.
Then conclude the Novena by the following prayer:
MOST amiable Heart of Jesus, beloved object of our most tender affections, may all honor, glory, love and benediction, be ever given to thee! Be thou our comfort in adversity, our guide in prosperity, our safety in dangers, and protection against all our enemies, visible and invisible. Amen.
A NOVENA TO THE SACRED HEART.
O SACRED adorable Heart of Jesus! Furnace of eternal charity! Ocean of infinite mercy! Consolation of the afflicted! Refuge of sinners! and Hope of the whole world! I most fervently adore thee, and unite my heart, my affections, and supplications, to the perpetual homage thou thyself, on our altar, renderest to thy eternal Father.
Most amiable Heart, which hast loved us with an eternal love! supply what is wanting in my love, and receive my desire, at least of loving thee with all the ardor and sincerity thou so justly meritest. But remember, O adorable Heart! that thou hast not disclosed thyself to us only as an object of our adorations; thou desirest much more to engage our love, and to become the ground and tender motive of our tender confidence. For this end thou wert pierced through with a lance on the cross; and for the same purpose thou, remainest a dally victim of thy own love on our altars. O infinitely compassionate Heart of Jesus, which was overwhelmed with sorrow in the Garden of Olives, at the view of our spiritual and corporal miseries! I recur to thee now with all the confidence thou desirest I should repose in the extent of thy power, and the riches of thy mercy. Convinced that those things which are impossible to human
