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I thank thee with all my heart, that thou vouchsafest to show me mercy; I desire to repair the injuries which I have had the misery to inflict upon thee, by my coldness and indifference to thy service. O, that I could honour thee as thou deservest to be honoured, in all places where now thou art the least honoured and the most neglected. Amen.

And thou, immaculate Mary, most holy and dear Mother of fair love, who so earnestly desirest that thy divine Son should be loved by all, obtain for me, by thy most powerful intercession, that he may receive and accept this solemn consecration, which I this day make of my whole self in thy presence; to the end that my name may be written indelibly in the number of those happy souls, who, faithful and constant in his service, shall never be separated from the most sweet love of thy dear and most amiable Son Jesus. Amen.

FORM OF ADMISSION INTO THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS.

I, N.N., for the greater honour of Jesus Christ crucified, and of his divine Heart, burning with love in the Blessed Eucharist, and also to repair the outrages he receives in this august Sacrament, associate myself of my own free will to the faithful received into this pious Confraternity. I desire to participate in the indulgences with which it is enriched, and in the good works therein performed, both for the expiation of my own sins, and for the assistance of the suffering souls in purgatory.

O sweet Jesus! enclose in thy Sacred Heart all the members of this Association; grant that, faith-