Making Acts of Reparation

The Catholic Encyclopedia explains:

“We are restored to grace through the merits of Christ’s Death, and that grace enables us to add our prayers, labors, and trials to those of Our Lord ‘and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ’. (Colossians 1:24) Therefore, we can make some sort of reparation to the justice of God for our own offenses against Him, and by virtue of the Communion of the Saints, the oneness and solidarity of the mystical Body of Christ, we can also make satisfaction and reparation for the sins of others.”

In this way, we can help repair the spiritual damage that others have done and contribute to the healing of the world. Prayers of reparation help us understand that our actions have both physical and spiritual consequences. Justice requires that we repair the damage in both means, invoking God’s healing touch upon our sins and the sins of the world.

Litany of Reparation to 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 reparation, O Lord.
For the irreverence of Christians, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the continual blasphemies of the impious, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the infamous discourses made in Your Holy Temples, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the crimes of sinners, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the sacrileges which profane Your sacrament of love, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the coldness of the greater part of Your children, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For their contempt of Your loving invitations, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the infidelity of those who call themselves Your friends, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For the abuse of Your grace, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For our unfaithfulness, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For our delay in loving You, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For our tepidity in Your holy service, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your bitter sadness at the loss of souls, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your long waiting at the door of our hearts, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your loving sighs, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your loving tears, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your loving imprisonment, we offer You our reparation, O Lord.
For Your loving death, we offer You our reparation, 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, graciously 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 contempts You have received, and still continue to receive, in this ineffable mystery, Who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in the most need of Thy mercy.

My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not trust and do not love Thee.

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.

Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offences committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners.