“Sacred Heart of Jesus, in You I trust.” Five words that entire generations have repeated in times of fear and also in times of joy. We tell you the most prayed prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, where they come from, and how to live this devotion.
The shortest prayer: “in You I trust”
Sacred Heart of Jesus, in You I trust.
It is a jaculatory: a very short prayer to repeat throughout the day, when leaving home, before a medical test, or when putting the children to bed. Many grandmothers had it embroidered or framed at the entrance of the house.
The consecration to the Sacred Heart
The devotion as we know it comes from Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque, a French nun who between 1673 and 1675 received the revelations of the Heart of Jesus in Paray-le-Monial. She herself wrote a personal consecration that begins like this:
I surrender and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ: my person and my life, my actions, sorrows, and sufferings…
To consecrate oneself is, simply, to put one's own life and that of the family in His hands. Many families do it together, in front of an image of the Sacred Heart at home.
The first Fridays and the month of June
- The first Fridays of the month: tradition invites you to go to Mass and receive Communion for nine consecutive first Fridays.
- June is the month of the Sacred Heart.
- Its feast changes every year: it is the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi. In 2027 it falls on June 4.
Praying with its medal or its detente
The “detente” is the small emblem of the Sacred Heart that you carry with you as a sign of trust; we tell you its history in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the detente. Wearing its medal, its scapular, or its bracelet is a way of repeating “in You I trust” without saying a word. If you have doubts, look at how to choose your Sacred Heart medal.
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