First Friday February

>>>Today we arrive at another First Friday which is a day many Catholic Churches hold adoration and benediction and we pray the litany of the Sacred Heart. Today I help extend the hours of adoration for my new parish, Most Holy Trinity, and will preside at Benediction tonight. It is my prayer that this will be just the beginning of a new tradition at MHT. As I awoke this morning I found this beautiful First Friday prayer on the website A Concord Pastor Comments. Please enjoy and pray this beautiful prayer:


February finds the stores overflowing with cards, gifts and boxes of chocolates all heart-shaped. The Heart we celebrate here on the First Friday of February is deeper than the heart of romance, stronger than the heart of courage, truer than any heart we might offer one another: this is the Heart of Wisdom who offers and gives us his Heart every minute of every hour of every day...

As Valentines' Day approaches, whose heart do you hold in your heart of prayer? For the healing, strengthening, easing of whose heart do you pray? What do you pray for your own heart?

Let us pray...

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

So loving
So humble
So gentle
So compassionate
So faithful
So wise
So patient
So steadfast
So tender
So spacious

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

God’s joy
God’s shalom
Harp of the Trinity
Wingbeat of the Spirit
Breath of God
Five-petaled rose

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Womb of justice
Birthplace of peace
Our dearest hope
Longing of our lives

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Freely flowing fountain
Spring of grace
Freshet of forgiveness
Merciful river
Mystical dew

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Warmth of our hearts
Transforming fire
Cosmic furnace
Enflamer of hearts

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Heart of evolution
Beginning and ending
Center of all

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Garden of virtues
Mystical dew
Table and food

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Our refuge
Our shelter
Our comfort
Our rest
Our welcoming breast

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Wounded by love
Pierced by our cruelty
Broken by our hardness
Mystic winepress
Poured out as gift

Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer!

Have mercy, gracious heart,
Give us gratefulness
Teach us tenderness
Let us learn to love.

Hear our prayer!

- Wendy Wright

Let us pray...

Lord of all our hearts,
open wide your Heart of mercy
and refresh us with the peace that flows
from the font of your love.
Gracious Lord,
hear and answer our prayer.
Amen.