A devotional aide for souls
seeking to make amends for offenses
to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary

REFLECTIONS ON REPARATION

On the day of my judgment when I am asked, “And where is your Brother?” What
will be my response? I pray that I may answer that I have searched out for the
priests, my brothers, and opened to them the path that will again lead them to
Jesus, our High Priest. The path is through me, by the prayers and reparations
offered for their soul. I pray I have not lost sight of a single Brother in Christ. I
want to say- Lord, all my Brothers are present!
– Jackie Zurowski, Foundress of Reparatrix

“Offer everything in your power as a sacrifice to the Lord, as an act of reparation
for the sins by which He is offended and of supplication for the conversion of
sinners….. Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings the Lord may
send you..…”
– Our Lady of Fatima

All historians of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart agree that the spirituality of the
Heart of Christ was well-developed before the revelations given to the saint of
Paray-le-Monial, St. Margaret Mary. Nevertheless, she was instrumental in
bringing the devotion out of the cloister and into the mainstream of popular
spirituality. Through her, Jesus Christ made specific requests of the Universal
Church for public acts of consecration and reparation to His Sacred Heart: the
veneration of the Image of His Heart, the annual Feast of the Sacred Heart, the
First Friday Communions, and the Holy Hour.
– Marian Fathers: The Divine Mercy

“Do Me the favor of giving some relief to My Divine Heart.” And she understood
Him to mean that whoever suffers willingly, in union with the love with which
Christ suffered, brings relief to that Divine Heart which so ardently desires the
salvation of humanity, and is so ill repaid.
– Jesus to St. Mechtilde

In a famous vision, when she was ten years old, Our Savior crucified had revealed
to her the depth and the extent of His suffering. “Who has treated Thee so, O
Lord?” asked the Saint. “Those who despise and reject My love,” answered the
Savior. And often the Saint almost fainted during her prayers at the sight of the
human iniquity which was revealed to her. “Happily,” she tells us, “love tempered
the cruelty of these insults.” And whence came this love? From the reparation that
was offered to God.
– Jesus to St. Bridget

“You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps. The
only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for
Satan has no humility.”
– St. Moses the Black

“..… I want souls who are dedicated with fervor, with determination and without
looking for rest, to plead day and night for my priests…”
– Jesus to Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

“O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer
Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in
all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and
indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”
– Angel to children of Fatima

“And the Lord said to me, ‘My child, you please me most by suffering. In your
physical as well as your mental sufferings, My daughter, do not seek sympathy
from creatures. I want the fragrance of your suffering to be pure and
unadulterated. I want you to detach yourself, not only from creatures, but also
from yourself… The more you will come to love suffering, My daughter, the purer
your love for Me will be.’”
– Jesus to St. Faustina

The conversion of Giacomo Benedetti was due to his discovery that his young wife
was devoted to reparation. The facts are these. After he had finished his studies in
law, Giacomo married and he was very proud of his wife. One day in the year
1288, which happened to be a great festival at Todi, the platform on which his
wife stood, collapsed. He rushed to her rescue, and would have freed her from her
garments. She refused, and when he insisted, his fingers felt a hair shirt next to
her skin. The lips of the dying woman could not speak, but her look seemed to
say: “This was for you.” God was awaiting this moment. He sold all his
possessions, became a beggar, and ten years later entered the Franciscan Order as
a lay-brother.
– Jacopone de Todi, Author of the Stabat Mater

“Do not give up prayer on any account, no matter how dry or rotten you feel;
every moment, especially before Him in the tabernacle, is a certain positive gain;
the effect will be there though you may not feel it.”
– Servant of God Fr. Willie Doyle, S.J.

“The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with
extreme effort.”
– St. Padre Pio

“I am suffering to console Our Lord. What a pity He is so sad.”
– St. Francisco Marto

“The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when
we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much.
He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.”
– St. Anthony of the Desert

“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers
make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the
consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so
paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off
our knees for the rest of our lives.”
– Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy

“I know when you pray for me, and it is the same with all of the other souls here
in Purgatory. Very few of us here get any prayers; the majority of us are totally
abandoned, with no thought or prayers offered for us from those on earth.”
– Message from a soul in Purgatory

The Golden Arrow Prayer
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and
unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified
in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the
Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Amen.
– Sr. Mary of St. Peter (as revealed by Our Lord)

“Our Lady wants all Her requests heard, but especially the First Saturday
Communions of Reparation. They are most important, because this devotion
renews our purpose once a month to live up to what Our Lady asks.”
– Venerable Sr. Lucia of Fatima

“Let us live for souls, let us be apostles, let us save especially the souls of
priests…Let us pray, let us suffer for them, and, on the last day, Jesus will be
grateful.”
– St. Therese to her sister, Celine

“He who wishes to love God does not truly love Him if he has not an ardent and
constant desire to suffer for His sake.”
– St. Aloysius Gonzaga

“Suffering born in a Christian way is the condition that God, the author of all grace
and of all the gifts that lead to salvation, has established for granting us glory.”
– St. Padre Pio

“Those who pray and suffer, leaving action for others, will not shine here on earth;
but what a radiant crown they will wear in the kingdom of life! Blessed be the
apostolate of suffering!”
– St. Josemaria Escriva

“One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up
his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much, more truly than one
who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out
a few tears, thinks that is prayer.”
– St. Teresa of Avila

“Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults
and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the
wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the Divine medicine.”
– St. Augustine of Hippo

“If we only knew the precious treasure hidden in infirmities, we would receive
them with the same joy with which we receive the greatest benefits, and we
would bear them without ever complaining or showing signs of weariness.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

“Prayer is the only channel through which God’s great graces and favors may flow
into the soul; and if this be once closed, I know no other way He can communicate
them.”
– St. Teresa of Jesus

“What souls we can convert by our prayers. The one who saves a soul from hell
saves this soul and his own as well.”
– St. John Vianney

“When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that
were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake
of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor
sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior
answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful
mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours
to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for
sinners.”
– St. Faustina Kowalska

“Have confidence in prayer. It is the unfailing power which God has given us. By
means of it you will obtain the salvation of the dear souls whom God has given
you and all your loved ones.” “Ask and you shall receive,” Our Lord said. “Be
yourself with the good Lord.”
– St. Peter Julian Eymard

“Fasting is the soul of prayer. Mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So, if you pray, fast.
If you fast, show mercy: if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of
others. If you do not close your ear to others, you open God’s ear to yourself.”
– St. Peter Chrysologus

“Pray, therefore, for the priesthood. Ask that vocations to it may be multiplied.
Obtain for the people holy priests, men of fire and flame. This was Mary’s prayer,
her apostolate of predilection. And now She protects holy vocations, She implores
them of her Son. The priest is the privileged child of Mary. It is She who trains
him to piety when young, and shields his virtue. It is She who nourishes his fervor,
who leads him by the hand to the foot of the altar, and who presents him to the
Bishop, as She once offered Jesus in the Temple.”
– St. Peter Julian Eymard

“The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not
know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from
it.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

“Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The
conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The
Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However,
assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God requires our cooperation. She seeks
souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to Her, who will become, in Her
hands, effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God’s
kingdom upon earth.”
– St. Maximilian Kolbe

“By the power of the Holy Spirit our suffering refines our charity just as our charity
transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice.”
– Dr. Scott Hahn

“The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my
activities of service to the Church and to the whole world.”
– Pope St. John Paul II

“There is a vocation to suffer with Christ and thereby to cooperate with Him in His
work of salvation. When we are united with the Lord, we are members of the
mystical body of Christ; Christ lives in His members and continues to suffer in
them. And the suffering borne in union with the Lord is His suffering, incorporated
in the great work of salvation…”
– St. Edith Stein

“….. As it is, all my desires, enthusiasm, and tenderness must remain enclosed and
poured out only to God. Whatever suffering this entails, I offer for those who are
so dear to me. Nothing is lost, not one suffering, not one tear.”
– Servant of God, Elisabeth Leseur

“Why does the testimony of the saints matter? Because the saints are the ‘serious
players’ in the spiritual life. The saints got the business of holiness done. The
saints especially excelled in uniting their hearts to the Heart of Jesus, which
should be our business as well.”
– Dr. Mark Miravalle

“There are two words that sum up for me all holiness, all apostolate: Union and
Love.”
– St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Saying the Rosary daily deepens our Catholic identity, touches our loved ones,
and moves Heaven and earth for our intentions. The saints all recommend daily
meditative prayer; the Rosary is exactly that..…”
– Tom Hoopes, from the Rosary of Saint John Paul II

“A good shepherd is the greatest treasure which the good Lord can grant to a
parish.”
– St. John Vianney

“We are in the hands of our good God and Father of all consolation; all that He
permits will turn to our greater good, although now we do not understand it.”
– St. Teresa Margaret Redi

“Oh, if you knew how necessary suffering is so God’s work can be done in the
soul…”
– St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“How does one acquire this love? By being determined to work and to suffer, and
to do so when the occasion arises. It is indeed true that by thinking what we owe
the Lord, of who He is, and what we are, a soul’s determination grows, and that
this thinking is very meritorious and appropriate.”
– St. Teresa of Avila

“On another day the Lord told me this: Do you think, daughter, that merit lies in
enjoyment? No, rather it lies in working and suffering and loving…When you see
My Mother holding Me in Her arms, don’t think She enjoyed those consolations
without heavy torment. From the time Simeon spoke those words to Her, My
Father gave Her clear light to see what I was to suffer.”
– St. Teresa of Avila

“….. The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Do not let us waste the
trials Jesus sends.”
– St. Therese

“Notice Our Lady’s choice of words. She said, ‘Keep Me company for 15
minutes…’ Our Lady is both our spiritual Mother and our spiritual exemplar. The
implication here is that by meditating upon the mysteries of the Rosary, we draw
near to Mary in a way She finds comforting and consoling, as a mother would feel
consolation from a child who, recognizing the value of the gift of Her maternal
love, spends time with Her to listen to Her and better understand the thoughts
that fill the treasury of Her heart. Our meditation is an action which, in some way,
reciprocates Her love and expresses gratitude to Her for Her benevolence.”
– Lawrence Maginot, Author of The Marian Manifesto

“He did submit himself unto the elements, unto cold and heat, hunger and thirst,
and other insensible creatures, concealing His power and despoiling Himself
thereof in the likeness of man, in order that He might teach us weak and wretched
mortals with what patience we ought to bear tribulation.”
– Bl. Angela of Foligno

“Acts of reparation unite us to the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ and make us
co-workers in the Church’s mission of healing and forgiving. An act of reparation
might be a prayer or a penance done for someone’s conversion, some physical
pain you might experience offered in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, or
giving some money or doing another work of mercy for someone in need.”
– Fr. John Paul Gardner, Diocese of Bismarck

“Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.”
– St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

O Almighty Eternal God our Father, look upon the face of Your Son, and for love of
Him Who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity on your priests. Remember O most
compassionate God, that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in
them the grace of their vocation which is in them, so that they may never do
anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.
– Richard Cardinal Cushing

“If you have lost your taste for prayer, you will regain the desire for it by returning
humbly to its practice.”
– Pope St. Paul VI

“May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us
study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I
want to live there.”
– St. Claude de la Colombiere

“Mary, who kept all God’s words in Her heart, in the fullness of grace granted Her,
understood the great value of suffering. While the apostles fled, She went out to
meet the Savior on the way to Calvary and stood beneath the cross, in order to
share His grief and shame to the end. And She carried Him to the grave, firmly
trusting that He would rise.”
– St. Titus Brandsma

“Venerable brethren, there is only one piece of advice that I offer to you: watch
over your seminaries and over candidates for the priesthood. As you yourselves
know, an air of independence which is fatal for souls is widely diffused in the
world, and has found its way even within the sanctuary; it shows itself not only in
relation to authority but also in regard to doctrine. Because of it, some of our
young clerics, animated by that spirit of unbridled criticism which holds sway at
the present day, have come to lose all respect for the learning which comes from
our great teachers, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the interpreters of
revealed doctrine. If ever you have in your seminary one of those new-style
savants, get rid of him without delay; on no account impose hands upon him. You
will always regret having ordained even one such person: never will you regret
having excluded him.”
– Pope St. Pius X

“The worthy priest is an angel of purity in mind and body, a cherub of light and
knowledge, a seraph of love and Charity, an apostle of zeal in work and sanctity, a
little god on earth in power and authority, in patience and benignity. He is the
living image of Christ in this world, of Christ watching, praying, preaching,
catechizing, working, weeping, going from town to town, from village to village,
suffering, agonizing, sacrificing Himself and dying for the souls created to His
image and likeness. . . He is the light of those who sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death. He is the destroyer of error, schisms and heresies, the converter
of sinners, the sanctifier of the just, the strength of the weak, the consolation of
the afflicted, the treasure of the poor. He is the confusion of hell, the glory of
heaven, the terror of demons, the joy of angels, the ruin of Satan’s kingdom, the
establishment of Christ’s empire, the ornament of the Church..…”
– St. John Eudes

“If there were one million families praying the rosary every day the entire world
would be saved.”
– Pope St. Pius X

“I know by experience that the greatest punishment that can befall a people is a
bad priest. It is best to leave a town without a priest than to send one who is
unworthy. If God does not send me men who are truly called, God himself will
have to take care of the men and souls by means of his angels.”
– St. Anthony Mary Claret

“Do you wish to know if the people of any place are righteous? Look what sort of a
pastor they have. If you find him pious, just, sound, believe the people will be the
same, for they are seasoned with the salt of his wisdom.”
– St. John Chrysostom

“Receive every trial, every annoyance, every lack of courtesy in the light that
springs from the Cross; that is how we please God, how we advance in the ways of
love.”
– St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“I have separated you from other people, that you should be Mine.”
– Leviticus 20:26

“Do Me the favour of giving some relief to My Divine Heart.”
– Our Lord to St. Mechtilde

“….. He who humbly confesses his guilt recompenses Me for the accusations made
against Me by false witnesses, and for the sentence of death passed upon Me. He
who submits to ill-humored superiors lightens the weight of My crown of thorns.
He who, being offended by someone, makes the first approach to reconciliation,
compensates Me for the carrying of My Cross. He who suffers insult or tribulation
in order to save his neighbor from sin, makes up to Me for the death I suffered for
humanity. If anyone suffers insults with humility, he takes Me down from the
Cross. And he who puts his neighbor before himself, deeming him more worthy of
honor and reward, repays Me for My burial.”
– Our Lord to St. Gertrude

“..… I showed you how amidst all the guilty a few remained pure; for among the
wicked I have always some chosen ones whose virtue and good works restrain My
justice and prevent me from bidding the mountains fall and crush the guilty, the
earth to open and swallow them up, the wild beasts to devour them, the demons
to carry them off, body and soul. I want to have mercy on them and make them
change their lives. For this purpose I make use of My servants…and I make them
pray for the guilty.”
– Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena (Dial.124)

“My child, I have need of victims; strong victims, in order to appease the just
anger of My Divine Father. I need souls who, by their sufferings, trials and
sacrifices, make amends for sinners and for their ingratitude. Oh, if I could make
all understand how angry My Father is by the impious world!”
– Our Lord to St. Gemma Galgani

“From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy
Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their
whole life.”
– Pope St. John Paul II

“Know, O Christian, that the Mass is the holiest act of religion. You cannot do
anything to glorify God more, nor profit your soul more, than by devoutly assisting
at it, and assisting as often as possible.”
– St. Peter Julian Eymard

“One merits more by devoutly assisting at a Holy Mass than by distributing all of
his goods to the poor and traveling all over the world on pilgrimage.”
– St. Bernard

“If priests sin, all the people are led to sin. Hence everyone must render an
account of his own sins; but the priests are also responsible for the sins of others.”
– St. John Chrysostom

“How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!”
– St. John Vianney

“….. for many go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray
for them.”
– St. Jacinta Marto of Fatima

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it; truth never
breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
– St. John Henry Newman

“There is so much to make reparation for, so much to ask, that I believe to fulfill such needs one must become a continual prayer, one must love much. The power of a soul given to love is so wonderful as we see from the beautiful example of St. Mary Magdalene.”
– St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly
you will receive all that you ask.”
– St. Albert the Great

“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look,
there by a kindly word….. and doing it all for love.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different
stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.”
– St. Boniface of Mainz

“Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, help my heart to persevere in all that is holy.”
– St. Rita of Cascia

“There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.”
– St. Philip Neri

“By your prayers you can bring down the rain of mercy.”
– St. Charbel Makhlouf

“Here is a rule for everyday life: do not do anything which you cannot offer to
God.”
– St. John Vianney

The 3 swords piercing the heart of Rosa Mystica: 1) the unworthy celebration of
Holy Mass and Communion unworthily received 2) being unfaithful to or giving up
the vocation as a priest or a religious 3) betrayal of the Faith. Our Lady asked for
prayer, sacrifice, and penance.
– Our Lady, Rosa Mystica, to Pierina Gilli in Montichiari, 1947

“I would like to add here another brief comment with some relevance for
everyday living. There used to be a form of devotion—perhaps less practiced
today but quite widespread not long ago—that included the idea of “offering up”
the minor daily hardships that continually strike at us like irritating “jabs”, thereby
giving them a meaning. Of course, there were some exaggerations and perhaps
unhealthy applications of this devotion, but we need to ask ourselves whether
there may not after all have been something essential and helpful contained
within it. What does it mean to offer something up? Those who did so were
convinced that they could insert these little annoyances into Christ’s great
“com-passion” so that they somehow became part of the treasury of compassion
so greatly needed by the human race. In this way, even the small inconveniences
of daily life could acquire meaning and contribute to the economy of good and of
human love. Maybe we should consider whether it might be judicious to revive
this practice ourselves.”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, 40

“One just soul can receive pardon for a thousand sinners.”
– St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“I wish to express my approval and encouragement to all who in any way continue
to foster, study and promote devotion to the Heart of Christ in the Church with
language and forms adapted to our times, so that it may be transmitted to future
generations in the spirit which has always animated it. The faithful still need to be
guided to contemplate adoringly the mystery of Christ, the God-Man, in order to
become men and women of interior life, people who feel and live the call to new
life, to holiness, to reparation which is apostolic cooperation in the salvation of
the world, people who prepare themselves for the new evangelization,
recognizing the Heart of Christ as the heart of the Church: it is urgent for the
world to understand that Christianity is the religion of love.”
– Letter of Pope John Paul II on the 100th Anniversary of the Consecration of the
Human race to the Divine Heart of Jesus, 1999

“The patient and humble endurance of the cross-whatever nature it may be-is the highest work we have to do.”
– St. Katharine Drexel

“There is another reason, also, why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it
has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that
of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy
the soul but shows its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul
practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious.”
– St. John of the Cross

“What did You possess, my Lord, but trials, sufferings, and dishonor?….. In sum, my
God, it does not fit those of us who want to be Your true children and hold on to
their inheritance, to flee suffering. Your heraldry consists of five wounds.”
– St. Teresa of Avila

“Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

Reparation is a Christian theological concept closely connected with those of
atonement and satisfaction. In ascetical theology, reparation is the making of
amends for insults given to God through sin, either one’s own or another’s. The
response of man is to be reparation through adoration, prayer, and sacrifice.
– Wikipedia

“We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works.”
– Hebrews 10-24

“Since we all need to pray, God gives us a prayer which is within our reach: the
Rosary, which can be recited either in common or in private, either in church in
the presence of the Blessed Sacrament or at home, either with the rest of the
family or alone, either when traveling or while walking quietly in the fields….. Our
day has 24 hours in it. It is not asking a great deal to set aside a quarter of an hour
for the spiritual life, for our intimate and familiar conversation with God.”
– Venerable Sr. Lucia of Fatima

“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look,
there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The demons are very anxious in their pursuit of souls, yet, they quickly abandon
their prey merely at the name of Mary.”
– St. Bridget of Sweden

“Oh, if you only knew how necessary suffering is so God’s work can be done in the
soul…”
– St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“The souls who make the five First Saturdays with fervor and to make reparation
to the Heart of your heavenly Mother, please Me..…”
– Jesus to Sr. Lucia of Fatima

For reparation to be truly Christian and “not just a simple act of commutative
justice,” he remarked, it must presuppose “two demanding attitudes: recognizing
oneself guilty and asking for forgiveness.” Indeed, “any reparation, human or
spiritual, begins with the recognition of one’s sin.”
– Pope Francis, May 4, 2024

“The salvation of the whole world began with the ‘Hail Mary.’ Hence, the salvation
of each person is also attached to this prayer.”
– St. Louis de Montfort

“The door to heaven is the heart of Jesus. The key to this door is prayer and love.”
– St. Andre Bessette

“In bringing about the Redemption through suffering, Christ raised human
suffering to the level of the Redemption. Thus, each man, in his sufferings, can
also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.”
– Pope St. John Paul II

“As we enter heaven, we will see them, so many of them, coming towards us. We will ask who they are, and they will say, ‘ a poor soul you prayed for in purgatory.’”
– Blessed Fulton Sheen

“Our whole lifetime is Advent: bearing fruit in patience, not being curious, not
wanting to see with our own eyes the results of our life of faith.”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar

“God repays trials very well with divine goods for soul and body-there is not a trial
which does not have a corresponding and considerable reward.”
– St. John of the Cross

“It would truly be ‘bad news’ to learn that our good works and prayers could not
help our beloved dead. That would mean death is stronger than love.”
– Peter Kreeft (Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas)

“The Church needs apostles who by living the Eucharist with the heart do great
works; it needs you, my apostles of love.”
– Our Lady Queen of Peace

“Pray for priests…And today I address these words as an appeal, as a plea, to all
the faithful of the Church in the United States. Pray for priests, so that each and
every one of them will repeatedly say yes to the call he has received, remain
constant in preaching the Gospel message, and be faithful forever as the
companion of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
– Pope St. John Paul II

“Father, I beseech You, direct the hearts and wills of the servants of Your Bride,
the Holy Church, unto yourself so that they may follow the poor, bleeding,
humble, and gentle Lamb of God on the way of the Cross.”
– St. Catherine of Siena

“Be assured that we gain more merit in the sight of His Divine majesty in one single day by the tribulations that come to us from God and from our neighbor than during ten whole years by the sufferings and other exercises we voluntarily take upon ourselves.” –St. Teresa of Avila

“You should hold [these sinful ministers] out to Me with tears and great desire, so
that I in my goodness may clothe them with the garment of charity… Indeed, I
have appointed them and given them to you to be angels on earth…as I have told
you. When they are less than that, you ought to pray for them. But you are not to
judge them. Leave the judging to Me, and I, because of your prayers and My own
desire, will be merciful to them. The more you offer Me sorrowful and loving
desires for them, the more you will prove your love for Me. For the service neither
you nor My other servants can do for Me, you ought to do for them instead. Then
I will let myself be constrained by the longing and tears and prayers of My
servants, and will be merciful to My bride by reforming her with good and holy
shepherds.”
– God’s words to St. Catherine of Siena

“We can offer to God a thanksgiving prayer for priests and ask God to bestow on
all of His priests the fortitude and strength that they need to serve as He calls
them to serve. We can pray that priests are fulfilled in their vocation and have the
support and help that they need to serve God’s people with joy.”
– Anonymous Catholic Mom

“The adorers shall apply themselves during their adoration to honor the four ends
of Sacrifice (of the Mass): namely, to offer perpetually to God the Father through
our Lord Jesus Christ a homage of praise and honor, of love and thanksgiving, of
reparation and petition, for the greater service and reign of the sacramental Jesus
Christ; and finally that all may come to love our Lord Jesus Christ and come
eagerly to His sacrament of life.”
– St. Peter Julian Eymard

Reparation for the injuries offered to the Blessed Sacrament was the aim of St.
Norbert’s great work of reform—in himself, in the clergy, and in the faithful.
– Butler’s Lives of the Saints (St. Norbert-June 6)

“….. Particular attention should also be given to Eucharistic adoration, and in every
diocese there should be churches or chapels specifically devoted to this purpose. I
ask parishes, seminaries, religious houses and monasteries to organize periods of
Eucharistic Adoration, so that all have an opportunity to take part. Through
intense prayer before the real presence of the Lord, you can make reparation for
the sins of abuse that have done so much harm, at the same time imploring the
grace of renewed strength and a deeper sense of mission on the part of all
bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful…..”
– Pastoral Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, March 19, 2010

First Thursdays Devotion: Practicing Eucharistic Adoration before the tabernacle
(especially made in front of the most forgotten and abandoned tabernacles) as
part of the First Thursdays devotion is a Catholic devotion to offer reparation for
the Holy Wounds of Christ.
– Acts of Reparation, Wikipedia

“Whereas the primary object of consecration is that the creature should repay the
love of the Creator by loving Him in return, yet from this another naturally
follows–that is, to make amends for the insults offered to the Divine Love by
oblivion and neglect, and by the sins and offenses of mankind. This duty is
commonly called by the name of reparation.”
– Pope Paul VI Apostolic Letter, The Investigable Riches of Christ, 1965

“I do not recognize devotion unless there is mortification.”
– St. Claude de la Colombiere

“….. Consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means drawing near,
through the Mother’s intercession, to the very Fountain of Life that sprang from
Golgotha. This Fountain pours forth unceasingly redemption and grace. In it
Reparation is made continually for the sins of the world. It is a ceaseless source of
new life and holiness..…”
– Pope St. John Paul II, homily in Fatima, 1982

“Where there is prayer and fasting, there are no demons.”
– St. Theophan the Recluse

“If then, in foreseeing the sins of the future, the soul of Jesus became sorrowful
unto death, it cannot be doubted that He already felt some comfort when He
foresaw our reparation, when ‘there appeared to Him an Angel from heaven’ (Lk.
22:43) bearing consolation to His heart overcome with sorrow and anguish.
Hence, even now in a mysterious but true manner, we may and should comfort
the Sacred Heart, continually wounded by the sins of ungrateful men.”
– Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Pope Pius XI, 1928

“You shall repeat these words every day: ‘O my Jesus, through Your most loving
Heart, I beg You to inflame with the zeal of Your Love and Glory all the priests of
the world, all the missionaries, all those who are entrusted with the proclamation
of Your Divine Word, so that, ablaze with a holy zeal, they may snatch souls from
the devil and lead them to the refuge of Your Heart, where they may glorify You
unceasingly.’”
– Jesus to Sr. Josefa, 1921 (daily prayer for priestly souls)

“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than
a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or a year of fasting on bread and water.”
– St. Augustine of Hippo

“Penance means to accept every day all the little crosses, and the duties too, in
the spirit of penance…be reassured that your sacrifices will be transformed into
abundant, indeed into triumphant graces, and into rich rewards by the heart of
Our Lord…”
– Our Lady, Rosa Mystica, to Pierina Gilli in Montichiari, 1947

“Each one of us makes reparation in little ways, different ways. We make
reparation in ways that are hard for us as individuals, but ways that may not be
hard for anybody else. We make reparation because we love.”
– Mother Angelica, Foundress of Eternal Word Television Network

“Know for certain that the time you spend with devotion before this most Divine
Sacrament will be the time that will bring you the most good in this life and will
console you the most in your death and in eternity. And know that perhaps you
will gain more in a quarter of an hour of adoration in the presence of Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament than in all the other spiritual exercises of the day.”
– St. Alphonsus Mary Ligouri

“Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude
for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown…Man should always
firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.”
– St. Gertrude the Great

“I promise you, in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all powerful love will
grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday for nine
consecutive months, the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in My
disgrace nor without receiving the sacraments; My Divine Heart shall be their safe
refuge in that last moment.”
– Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary: First Fridays of Reparation, 1674

“Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.”
– Pope St. John Paul II

“..… The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship. Jesus waits
for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet
Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make
reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never
cease..…”
– Pope St. John II (Dominicae Cenae, 1980)

“In one day, the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a
whole lifetime without it.”
– St. Peter Julian Eymard

“He made them, the vicars of His love.”
– St. Ambrose of Milan

CHAPLET OF REPARATION FOR PRIESTS

*On each of the Our Father beads:
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the precious blood of Thy beloved Son, Our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Lamb without blemish or spot, in reparation for my sins
and for the sins of all Thy priests.

*On each of the Hail Mary beads:
By Thy Precious Blood, O Jesus, purify and sanctify Thy priests.

*In place of the Glory Be:
O Father, from Whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named, have
mercy on all Thy priests, and wash them in the Blood of the Lamb.
– from In Sinu Jesu

LITANY OF REPARATION IN HONOR OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Lord, have mercy on us; Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us; Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord, have mercy on us.

God the Father of Mercy, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Mediator between God and man, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, the Enlightener of hearts, have mercy on us.
Holy and undivided Trinity, have mercy on us.

O Sacred Host! Victim of reparation for the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Annihilated on the altar for us and by us, have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Despised and neglected, have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Neglected and abandoned in your temples, have mercy on us.

Be merciful unto us: spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful unto us: hear us, O Lord.

For so many unworthy Communions, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the irreverence of Christians, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the continual blasphemies of the impious, we offer You our reparations, O
Lord.
For the infamous discourses made in Your Holy Temples, we offer You our
reparations, O Lord.

For the crimes of sinners, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the sacrileges which profane Your sacrament of love, we offer You our
reparations, O Lord.
For the coldness of the greater part of Your children, we offer You our reparations,
O Lord.
For their contempt of Your loving invitations, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the infidelity of those who call themselves Your friends, we offer You our
reparations, O Lord.
For the abuse of Your grace, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.

For our unfaithfulness, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For our delay in loving You, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your bitter sadness at the loss of souls, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your long waiting at the door of our hearts, we offer You our reparations, O
Lord.

For Your loving sighs, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving tears, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving imprisonment, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving death, we offer You our reparations, O Lord.

That You spare us, that You hear us, we sinners beseech You, hear us.
That You will make known Your love for us in this most Holy Sacrament, we sinners
beseech You, hear us.
That You will vouchsafe to accept our reparation, made in the spirit of humility, we
sinners beseech You, hear us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: have mercy on us, O Lord.

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus, Who has chosen to expose Yourself to all the outrages of the impious,
rather than withdraw Your Sacred Body from our Churches, grant us the grace to
bewail, with true bitterness of heart, the injuries and sacrileges committed against
You, and to repair as far as lies in our power, and with sincere love, the many
ignominies and contempt You have received, and still continue to receive, in this
ineffable mystery, Who lives and reigns with God, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
forever and ever. Amen.