Heartbeat Reparation Prayer

A woman sleeps beneath a quilt in a softly lit bedroom with a small crucifix on the wall.
Even the quiet hours can be entrusted to love.

Eternal Father, I desire to rest in Your heart tonight. I make the intention of offering You every beat of my heart, joining to them as many acts of love and desire. I pray that even while I'm asleep, I will bring back souls that offened You. I ask for forgiveness for the whole world, especially those who know You and yet sin. I offer to You my every breath and heartbeat, as a prayer of reparation. Amen

"During the night you will rest in My Heart! My Heart will listen to the beats of yours, wich will be so many acts of love and desire. Thus, even while you are sleeping, You will bring back to Me souls that offened Me ... Ask forgiveness for the whole world, especially those that know Me and yet sin; offer yourself in reparation!" (Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez)

Submitted to Catholic Prayers by Kathy Linney on October 17, 1999.

Further reading

Offering even the hours of sleep gives this prayer its distinctive spirit of reparation. The Way of Divine Love presents Sister Josefa Menéndez’s writings on the Sacred Heart and offers context for the devotional tradition associated with her; it should be read with the distinction between private revelation and the Church’s public faith in mind.

The Way of Divine Love by Sister Josefa Menéndez (Baronius Press leather hardcover) on Amazon (paid link)