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Annual renewal of consecration

Each year, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, renew your personal and family consecration.

Why this practice

A consecration made once at twenty-five is not the consecration the same soul would make at fifty. The soul has lived; it knows itself differently. Annual renewal is not redundant — it is the deepening that comes from offering the same gift after more years of receiving back.

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is the natural day for this renewal. By the time the feast comes each year, the soul has either grown nearer to His Heart or further. Either way, the renewal is the right response.

How to begin

1Mark the Feast of the Sacred Heart each year on your calendar.
2On the feast, attend Mass, then make the renewal of consecration — alone, or together as a family if you have made a Family Consecration.
3Use the same words you used originally, or a renewal text written for the purpose. Either is fine.
4Take a few minutes afterward to reflect on what has changed in you since last year — and to thank Him for it.

The annual renewal is the act by which a covenant becomes a marriage.

— Traditional

A prayer for this practice

Sacred Heart of Jesus, on this feast another year I come to renew what I gave Thee. What I gave then I give again now, knowing it more truly. Take what is Thine, and bring me closer in the year to come.

Amen.

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