PRAYER TO THE ADORABLE JESUS

Oh Jesus, most humble, adorable, present in the Blessed Sacrament of your Divine Love. Here on your concealed Sacred throne, I prostate my soul and whole self before you. Out of my nothingness and sins, I implore you to accept my poor prayers, acts of reparation and adoration to quench your thirst for souls and obtain full pardon for the many profanations, ungratefulness and outrages which you receive each and every moment from the countless number of us miserable sinners.

It was your everlasting Mercy towards mankind that moved you so deeply to the point of veiling yourself to remain in love on our altars and Tabernacles all over the earth.

Oh Jesus, by Your Soul, Body and Divinity, present in the most Holy Eucharist, accept the tears of my soul that these very precious souls to you (mention here those you wish to pray for) may not lose their Eternity forever.

The Everlasting ages belong to you. So we entrust our total selves in your loving care and gaze now in life and death. Amen. (24)

(3.00 a.m., 4 April, 1991)

NOTES ON JESUS PRAYER OF ATONEMENT

The last paragraph is a clear reference to Jesus in the Tabernacle. Jesus gazes at us both in the picture and in the Tabernacle. So we pray to Him thus; "we entrust ourselves in your loving care and gaze now in life and death."
This is basically a prayer for the salvation of persons but "we entrust our total selves" in His "loving care and gaze," takes up all the request which the petitioner would put before him.
There is a link between He who gazes from the portrait and He who is concealed in the "Sacred throne" (His presence in the tabernacle): it is the same living Jesus who is in the Eucharist on the altar, in the tabernacle, and in the portrait. So, as we adore Him in the portrait, we should at the same time see ourselves present before Him who is invisibly seated on a throne in the tabernacle. Kneeling before this portrait of the Adorable One, we entrust ourselves in His "loving care and gaze."