Oh Sacred Heart of Jesus,

give me a heart that is one with your own:
a humble heart
    that knows and loves its nothingness;
a gentle heart
   that holds and calms its own anxieties;
a loving heart
    that has compassion for the suffering of others;
a pure heart
    that recoils even at the appearance of evil;
a detached heart
    that longs for nothing other than the goodness of heaven;
a heart detached from self-love and embraced by the love of God,
its attention focused on God,
its goodness is its only treasure   
in time and in eternity.

                        Amen.