This weekend we join Jesuit communities around the world in reconsecrating our lives, our work, and our Parish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During Mass, the presider will offer a prayer written by Servant of God Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. in 1972, and we will respond with the Suscipe, the response to God's love with which St. Ignatius ends the Spiritual Exercises. During this prayer, we offer all that God has given us back to God in love and gratitude.
Heavenly Father,
As Ignatius prayed in the small chapel of La Storta, you willed by a singular grace to grant the petition which he had been begging of you for a long time through the intercession of Our Lady: to be placed with your Son. In your words to him you assured him of your support: "I shall be with you." You asked Jesus carrying his cross to take him as your servant, and this he did in turning to Ignatius with those unforgettable words: "It is our will that you serve us."
As the followers of the handful of men who were the first "companions of Jesus," we in our turn address to you the same prayer, asking to be placed with your Son and to serve "under the banner of the Cross" where Jesus is nailed out of obedience, with his side pierced and his heart opened as a sign of his love for you and for all men.
We renew today the consecration of the Society, and its ministry here at St. Ignatius Parish, to the Heart of Jesus; we promise you all our fidelity, and we ask for your grace to continue to serve you and to serve your Son with the same Spirit and the same intensity as Ignatius and his companions.
Through the intercession of the Virgin Mary who received the prayer of Ignatius, and before the Cross where Jesus Christ gives to us the treasures of his open heart, through Him and in Him, we say from the very depths of our being:
Take, O Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. Whatever I have or hold, you have given me; I restore it all to you and surrender it wholly to be governed by your will. Give me only your love and your grace, and I am rich enough and ask nothing more. Amen.