First Fridays at St. Joseph
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Join us for as much of the evening
as your schedule allows.
Confessions: 5-5:20pm
Holy Mass: 5:30pm
Holy Hour: 6:00-7:00pm
The First Friday of each month
was designated by our Lord as a day to be consecrated to honoring His Sacred Heart.
"Every one of us, when he/she pauses in silence, needs to feel not only his/her own heartbeat, but deeper still, the beating of a trustworthy presence, perceptible with faith's senses and yet much more real: the presence of Christ, the heart of the world."
~Pope Benedict XVI
THE PROMISES OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS TO ST. MARGARET MARY
1. I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.
2. I will establish peace in their families and will unite families that are divided.
3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
4. I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all in death.
5. I will bestow the blessings of Heaven on all their undertakings.
6. Sinners will find in my Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls will become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall quickly grow in perfection.
9. I will bless every place in which an Image of my Heart is set up and honored
and will imprint My love on the hearts of all those who wear this image on their person.
10. I will give the priests who are animated by a tender devotion to my Divine Heart the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who promote this devotion will have their names written in my Heart,
never to be blotted out.
12. I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who honor the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence;
they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their Sacraments.
My divine Heart will be their safe refuge in this last moment.
A Powerful Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
St. Pio of Petrelcina recited this novena every day for all those who requested his prayers.
I. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you."
Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (here name your request).Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be to the Father
"Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you."
II. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you."
Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (here name your request).Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be to the Father
" Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you ."
III. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away."
Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (here name your request).Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be to the Father
" Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you ."O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears! Turn, then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.St. Joseph, pray for us.
Amen