Meditation Prayer to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Merciful Jesus Christ, I see in Your Most Sacred Heart the sweetest light of Your living fire.

I beg of You to bless me with a portion of that sweet light and of that divine fire, to undeceive and inflame my heart. 

I still recall those days and hours of my life when my heart was most inflamed with love of God.

With sweet and yet bitter recollection, I now compare the tranquility of my heart then 

with that which I enjoy at present.  

I ask pardon for having allowed that holy love for Your Heart, the sweetness and peace of which You have formerly made me taste, to be extinguished by my dissipation. 

Grant me Your Grace to disengage myself from things that impede me to increase Your divine love in me, and consequently the impediment also to the acquisition and increase of the happiness of my heart even in this life.

Amen.

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Rest in the Heart of Jesus with this beautiful meditation

The Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

O Lord Jesus Christ, Who, before ascending into heaven, did promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me, that He may perfect in my soul the work of Your grace and Your love.

Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal.

The Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth.

The Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining Heaven.

The Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You, and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation.

The Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints.

The Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable.

The Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God, and may dread in any way to displease Him.

Mark me, dear Lord, with the sign of Your true disciples and animate me in all things with Your Spirit 

Amen.

Advent Song: Ang Panginoon ay Darating

Sung during Advent Season in a Catholic Liturgical Mass, Ang Panginoon ay Darating is a beautiful Filipino song penned by Lester Delgado.  It captures in melody and lyrics mankind's joyful anticipation and poignant longing for the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the very essence of Advent.


Ang Panginoon ay darating
Ang pag-ibig Niya ay magniningning
Sa harap ng altar kami'y lumalapit
Umaawit ng masayang papuri

Buksan ang kandila ng buhay
Ang liwanag sa paghihintay
Sa pagdating ni Hesus nawa'y pagpalain
Ito ang aming dalangin

Ang Panginoon ay darating
Ang pag-ibig Niya ay magniningning
Sa harap ng altar kami'y lumalapit
Umaawit ng masayang papuri

Sa harap ng altar kami'y lumalapit
Umaawit ng masayang papuri

Listen to the song as sung by the Teatro Pilipino Choir: Ang Panginoon ay Darating