According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart ... one God, . . . Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal ...

Jesus called the people to him again and said to them, 'Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a ...

Take every faculty of my soul and body, draw me day by day near and nearer to your sacred heart, and there, as I can bear the lesson, teach me your blessed way. O sacred heart of Jesus ...