[Officium]
Sacratissimi Cordis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi

[Ant Vespera]
Put thy easy yoke * upon all mankind, O Lord, and be thou ruler, even in the midst of thine enemies.;;109
This merciful * and gracious Lord hath given Meat unto them that fear him..;;110
Unto the godly * there ariseth up light in the darkness, even the Lord merciful and gracious.;;111
What reward shall I give * unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?;;115
With the Lord * there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.;;129

[Hymnus Vespera]
v. Lo, how the savage crew
Of our proud sins hath rent
The heart of our all-gracious God,
That heart so innocent.
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The soldier's quivering lance
Our guilt it was that drave,
Our wicked deeds that to its point
Such cruel sharpness gave.
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O wounded heart, whence sprang
The Church, the Saviour's bride;
Thou door of our salvation's ark
Set in its mystic side.
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Thou holy fount, whence flows
The sacred sevenfold flood,
Where we our filthy robes may cleanse
In the Lamb's saving blood:
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By sorrowful relapse,
thee will we rend no more;
But like the flames, those types of love,
Strive heavenward to soar.
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Father and Son supreme
And Spirit, hear our cry;
Whose is the kingdom, praise and power,
Through all eternity.
Amen.

[Versum 1]
V. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.
R. For I am meek and lowly in Heart.

[Ant 1]
I am come to send Fire * on the earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled?

[Oratio]
O God, who hast suffered the Heart of thy Son to be wounded by our sins, and in that very Heart hast bestowed on us the abundant riches of thy love: grant that the devout homage of our hearts, which we render unto him, may of thy mercy be deemed a recompence acceptable in thy sight.
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[Octava 1]
!Commemoration for the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ
v. I am come to send Fire * on the earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled?
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V. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.
R. For I am meek and lowly in Heart.
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O God, who hast suffered the Heart of thy Son to be wounded by our sins, and in that very Heart hast bestowed on us the abundant riches of thy love: grant that the devout homage of our hearts, which we render unto him, may of thy mercy be deemed a recompence acceptable in thy sight.
$Per eumdem

[Invit]
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was wounded for love of us, * O come, let us worship.

[Hymnus Matutinum]
v. O Christ, the world's Creator bright,
Who didst mankind from sin redeem,
Light from the Father's glorious light,
True God of God, in bliss supreme.
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Thy love compelled thee to assume
A mortal body, man to save;
Reversing the old Adam's doom;
Our ransom the new Adam gave.
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That love which gloriously framed all
The earth, the stars, and wondrous sea
Took pity on our parents' fall,
Broke all our bonds and set us free.
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O Saviour, let thy potent love
Flow ever from thy bounteous heart;
To nations that pure fount above
The grace of pardon will impart.
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His heart for this was opened wide,
And wounded by the soldier's spear,
That freely from his sacred side
Might flow the streams our souls to clear.
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Glory to Father and to Son,
And to the Holy Ghost the same,
To whom all power, when time is done,
And endless rule, in endless fame.
Amen.

[Ant Matutinum]
The thoughts of his Heart * shall endure from generation to generation.;;32
For with thee * is the well of life, O Lord; and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures.;;35
Even mine own familiar friend * who did eat of my Bread, hath laid great wait for me.;;40
God is King * upon all the earth: he reigneth over the heathen.;;46;
When my Heart * was in heaviness, thou didst set me up upon a rock.;;60
In the multitude * of the sorrows that I had in my Heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.;;93
O ye that love the Lord, * give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness.;;96
All the ends of the world * have seen the salvation of our God.;;97
I will sing praises unto thee * among the nations, for thy mercy is greater than the heavens.;;107

[Nocturn 2 Versum]
V. I said: Lord, be merciful unto me.
R. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

[Nocturn 3 Versum]
V. The merciful Lord hath instituted a memorial of his wondrous deeds.
R. He hath given meat unto them that fear him.

[Lectio1]
Lesson from the book of Jeremias
!Jer 24:5-7
5 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.
6 And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 
7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.

[Responsory1]
R. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, and I will not cease from doing them good, and I will put my fear in their hearts, 
* So that they shall not depart from me.
V. Yea, I will rejoice over them, to do them good with my whole Heart.
R. So that they shall not depart from me.

[Lectio2]
!Jer 30:18-19; 30:21-24
18 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded according to the order thereof. 
19 And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: 
21 And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord? 
22 And you shall be my people: and I will be your God. 
23 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked. 
24 The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.

[Responsory2]
R. It was not an open enemy that has done me this dishonour, for then I could have borne it, 
* But it was even thou, mine own familiar friend, who did also eat of my Bread.
V. Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me, for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him.
R. But it was even thou, mine own familiar friend, who did also eat of my Bread.

[Lectio3]
!Jer 31:1-3; 31:31-33
1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 
2 Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest. 
3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee. 
31 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: 
32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord. 
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

[Responsory3]
R. And we, being dead in our sins, hath God quickened together with Christ, 
* For his great love wherewith he hath loved us.
V. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace.
R. For his great love wherewith he hath loved us.
&Gloria
R. For his great love wherewith he hath loved us.

[Lectio4]
Among the wonderful developments of sacred teaching and piety, by which the plans of the divine Wisdom are daily made clear to the Church, hardly any is more manifest than the triumphant progress made by the devotion of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Very often indeed, during the course of past ages, Fathers, Doctors, and Saints have celebrated our Redeemer's love: and they have said, that the wound opened in the side of Christ was the hidden fountain of all graces. Moreover, from the Middle Ages onward, when the faithful began to show a more tender piety towards the most sacred Humanity of the Saviour, contemplative souls became accustomed to penetrate through that wound almost to the very Heart itself, wounded for the love of men. And from that time, this form of contemplation became so familiar to all persons of saintly life, that there was no country or religious order in which, during this period, witnesses to it were not to be found. Finally, during recent centuries, and most especially at that period when heretics, in the name of a false piety, strove to discourage Christians from receiving the most Holy Eucharist, the veneration of the most Sacred Heart began to be openly practised, principally through the exertions of St. John Eudes, who is by no means unworthily called the founder of the liturgical worship of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

[Responsory4]
R. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him,
* Yea, unto all such as call upon him faithfully.
V. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering and of great goodness.
R. Yea, unto all such as call upon him faithfully.

[Lectio5]
But in order to establish fully and entirely the worship of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to spread the same throughout the whole world, God himself chose as his instrument a most humble virgin from the order of the Visitation, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, who even in her earliest years already had a burning love for the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and to whom Christ the Lord had very many times appeared, and was pleased to make known the riches and the desires of his divine Heart. The most famous of these apparitions was that in which Jesus revealed himself to her in prayer before the blessed Sacrament, shewed her his most Sacred Heart, and, complaining that in return for his unbounded love, he met with nothing but outrages and ingratitude from mankind, he ordered her to concern herself with the establishment of a new feast, on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi, on which his Heart should be venerated with due honour, and that the insults offered him by sinners in the Sacrament of love should be expiated by worthy satisfaction. But there is no one who knoweth not how many and how great were the obstacles which the handmaid of God experienced, in carrying out the commands of Christ; but, endowed with strength by the Lord himself, and actively aided by her pious spiritual directors, who exerted themselves with an almost unbelievable zeal, up to the time of her death she never ceased faithfully to carry out the duty entrusted to her by heaven.

[Responsory5]
R. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent;
* Yea, thou hast revealed them unto babes.
V. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
R. Yea, thou hast revealed them unto babes.

[Lectio6]
At length, in the year 1765, the Supreme Pontiff Clement XIII approved the Mass and Office in honour of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus; and Pius IX extended the feast to the universal Church. From then on the worship of the most Sacred Heart, like an overflowing river, washing away all obstacles, hath poured itself forth over all the earth, and, at the dawn of the new century, Leo XIII, having proclaimed a jubilee, decided to dedicate the whole human race to the most Sacred Heart. This consecration was actually carried out with solemn rites in all the churches of the Catholic world, and brought about a great increase of this devotion, leading not only nations but even private families to it, who in countless numbers dedicated themselves to the Divine Heart, and submitted themselves to its royal sway. Lastly, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius XI, in order that, by its solemnity, the feast might answer more fully to the greatly widespread devotion of the Christian people, raised the feast of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus to the rite of a double of the first class, with an octave; and moreover, that the violated rights of Christ, the supreme King and most loving Lord, might be repaired, and that the sins of the nations might be bewailed, he ordered that annually, on that same feast-day, there should be recited an expiatory form of prayer in all the churches of the Christian world.

[Responsory6]
R. All nations whom thou hast made shall come,
* And they shall worship thee, O Lord.
V. Yea, they shall glorify thy Name, for thou art great, and doest wondrous things.
R. And they shall worship thee, O Lord.
&Gloria
R. And they shall worship thee, O Lord.

[Lectio7]
From the Holy Gospel according to John
!John 19:31-37
At that time: The Jews, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath Day, for that Sabbath Day was an high day, besought Pilate that their legs might broken, and that they might be taken away. And so on.
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A Homily by St. Bonaventure the Bishop
!Book of the Tree of Life, num. 30
In order that the Church might be taken out of the side of Christ, in his deep sleep on the Cross, and that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced: it was divinely ordained that one of the soldiers should pierce his sacred side with a spear, and open it. Then forthwith there came flowing out blood and water, which was the price of our salvation, pouring forth from its mountain-source, in sooth, from the secret places of his Heart, to give power to the Sacraments of the Church, to bestow the life of grace, and to be as a saving drink of living waters, flowing up to life eternal for those who were already quickened in Christ. Arise, then, O soul beloved of Christ. Cease not thy vigilance, place there thy lips, and drink the waters from the fount of salvation.

[Responsory7]
R. If I be lifted up,
* I will draw all men unto me.
V. This he said, signifying what death he should die.
R. I will draw all men unto me.

[Lectio8]
!Of the mystical vine, Chap. 3
Because we are now come to the sweet Heart of Jesus, and because it is good for us to be here, let us not too soon turn away therefrom. O how good and joyful a thing it is to dwell in this Heart. What a good treasure, what a precious pearl, is thy Heart, O most excellent Jesu, which we have found hidden in the pit which hath been dug in this field, namely, in thy body. Who would cast away such a pearl? Nay, rather, for this same I would give all my pearls. I will sell all my thoughts and affections, and buy the same for myself, turning all my thoughts to the Heart of the good Jesus, and without fail it will support me. Therefore, o most sweet Jesu, finding this Heart that is thine and mine, I will pray to thee, my God: admit my prayers into the shrine of hearkening: and draw me even more altogether into thy Heart.

[Responsory8]
R. Be ye therefore followers of God;
* And walk ye therefore in love.
V. For Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us.
R. And walk ye therefore in love.
&Gloria
R. And walk ye therefore in love.

[Lectio9]
For to this end was thy side pierced, that an entry might be open unto us. To this end was thy Heart wounded, that in it we might be able to dwell secure from alarms from without. And it was wounded none the less on this account that, because of the visible wound, we may perceive the wound of love which is invisible. How could this fire of love better shine forth than for him to permit that not only his body, but that even his Heart, should be wounded with the spear? Who would not love that Heart so wounded? Who would not, in return, love one who is so loving? Who would not embrace one so chaste? Wherefore let us who are in the flesh love in return, as much as we can, him who so loveth, embrace our wounded one, whose hands and feet, side and Heart, have been pierced by wicked husbandmen; and let us pray that he may deign to bind our hearts, still hard and impenitent, with the chain of his love, and wound them with the dart thereof.
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[Ant Laudes]
One of the soldiers * with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out Blood and Water.
Jesus stood * and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
With an everlasting love * hath God loved us, and from the day that he was lifted up over the earth, he hath drawn us with loving-kindness unto his Heart.
Come unto me, * all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.
My son, * give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

[Capitulum Laudes]
!Eph 3:8-9
v. Brethren: Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the Mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.
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[Hymnus Laudes]
v. Jesus, behind thy temple's veil,
Hid in an ark of gold,
On stones engraven, lay the law
thy finger wrote of old.
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But in thy body's temple new,
thy life-blood's throbbing shrine,
Held, upon fleshly tables graved,
The law of love divine.
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And when that heart in death was stilled,
Each temple's veil was riven:
And lo, within thy love's red shrine,
To us to look was given.
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There make us gaze and see the love
Which drew thee, for our sake,
O great high-priest, thyself to God
A sacrifice to make.
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Thou, Saviour, cause that every soul
Which thou hast loved so well,
May will within thine open heart
In life and death to dwell.
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Grant it, O Father, only Son,
And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done,
In every time and place.
Amen.

[Versum 2]
V. With joy shall ye draw water.
R. Out of the fountains of the Saviour.

[Ant 2]
For these things were done * that the Scripture should be fulfilled which saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

[Octava 2]
!Commemoration for the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ
v. For these things were done * that the Scripture should be fulfilled which saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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V. With joy shall ye draw water.
R. Out of the fountains of the Saviour.
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O God, who hast suffered the Heart of thy Son to be wounded by our sins, and in that very Heart hast bestowed on us the abundant riches of thy love: grant that the devout homage of our hearts, which we render unto him, may of thy mercy be deemed a recompence acceptable in thy sight.
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[Lectio Prima]
!Eph 3:17-19
v. Being rooted and grounded in love, may ye be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height: and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.

[Responsory Breve Tertia]
R.br. Take my yoke upon you * And learn of me.
R. Take my yoke upon you * And learn of me.
V. For I am meek and lowly in Heart.
R. And learn of me.
&Gloria
R. Take my yoke upon you * And learn of me.

[Capitulum Sexta]
!Eph 3:14-17
v. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
$Deo gratias

[Responsory Breve Sexta]
R.br. I said: Lord, * Be merciful unto me.
R. I said: Lord, * Be merciful unto me.
V. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
R. Be merciful unto me.
&Gloria
R. I said: Lord, * Be merciful unto me.

[Capitulum Nona]
!Eph 3:17-19
v. Being rooted and grounded in love, may ye be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height: and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
$Deo gratias

[Responsory Breve Nona]
R.br. The merciful Lord hath instituted * A memorial of his wondrous deeds.
R. The merciful Lord hath instituted * A memorial of his wondrous deeds.
V. He hath given meat unto them that fear him.
R. A memorial of his wondrous deeds.
&Gloria
R. The merciful Lord hath instituted * A memorial of his wondrous deeds.

[Ant Vespera 3]
One of the soldiers * with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out Blood and Water.;;109
Jesus stood * and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.;;110
With an everlasting love * hath God loved us, and from the day that he was lifted up over the earth, he hath drawn us with loving-kindness unto his Heart.;;115
Come unto me, * all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.;;127
My son, * give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.;;147

[Ant 3]
But when they came to Jesus * and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out Blood and Water.

[Oratio3]
O God, the protector of all them that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply upon us thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal.
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[Octava 3]
!Commemoration for the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ
v. But when they came to Jesus * and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out Blood and Water.
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V. With joy shall ye draw water.
R. Out of the fountains of the Saviour.
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O God, the protector of all them that trust in thee, without whom
nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply upon us thy
mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through
things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal.
$Per Dominum
