{"id":8949,"date":"2015-12-20T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2015-12-20T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T12:04:19","slug":"au-sainct-enfant-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/au-sainct-enfant-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Infant Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8950\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/au-sainct-enfant-jesus\/enf-jesus-berulle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"493,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Enf Jesus Berulle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle-400x568.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8950\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle-400x568.jpg\" alt=\"Enf Jesus Berulle\" width=\"400\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle-400x568.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Enf-Je\u0301sus-Be\u0301rulle.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Over the centuries, souls have been drawn irresistibly to the mystery of the Infant Christ. Among these was the great Pierre Cardinal de B\u00e9rulle, the &#8220;Apostle of the Incarnate Word.&#8221; The image I chose to illustrate this prayer was originally designed to inspire devotion in souls, who, following the teaching of Cardinal de B\u00e9rulle, would offer themselves to the Infant Jesus. Here is a prayer to Jesus in His adorable innocence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, a kind of <em>amende honorable<\/em> to Jesus in His adorable innocence.<\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lord Jesus Christ<\/strong>,<br \/>\nThou, innocent Lamb of God;<br \/>\nThou, pure Victim, Holy Victim, Immaculate Victim,<br \/>\nWith all the love of my heart,<br \/>\nI adore Thee who art present here,<br \/>\nand I thank Thee that, from this altar, even now,<br \/>\nThou art offering Thyself to the Father<br \/>\nas the sacrifice of propitiation<br \/>\nthat destroys the sin of the world<br \/>\nand restores poor sinners to friendship with God,<br \/>\nnot by changing Thy Father&#8217;s Heart,<br \/>\nbut by opening the hearts of poor sinners<br \/>\nto receive His pardon, His mercy, and His grace.<br \/>\nDo Thou open hearts long closed by sin.<br \/>\nDo Thou deliver souls languishing in darkness<br \/>\nand in the shadow of death.<br \/>\nDo Thou set free souls bound in the fetters and chains<br \/>\nforged by Satan and his hateful allies.<br \/>\nDo Thou give sight to the blind,<br \/>\nmovement to the paralyzed,<br \/>\nhearing to the deaf,<br \/>\nand tenderness to the stony-hearted.<br \/>\nUnite me to Thyself,<br \/>\nand, by Thy Virgin Mother&#8217;s prayers,<br \/>\nso make me one sacrifice with Thee,<br \/>\nthat I may appear before the Father,<br \/>\nconsumed in the flames of Thy holocaust,<br \/>\nand made pure in the fire of love<br \/>\nthat ever burns in Thy Eucharistic Heart. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the centuries, souls have been drawn irresistibly to the mystery of the Infant Christ. Among these was the great Pierre Cardinal de B\u00e9rulle, the &#8220;Apostle of the Incarnate Word.&#8221; The image I chose to illustrate this prayer was originally designed to inspire devotion in souls, who, following the teaching of Cardinal de B\u00e9rulle, would <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmastide","category-prayers-of-mine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-2kl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12168,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions\/12168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}