Blog Post 6/30/2024 – Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

As we conclude this month, June, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, may we take time to allow the Sacred Heart of Jesus to hold us, to embrace us and to envelop us in Jesus Heart, His Most Sacred our most in need of His.  A Glimpse into Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque’s Story [adopted from Franciscan Media] will help us appreciate the Devotion to the Sacred Heart and the First Friday Devotion.

Jesus chose Margaret Mary to ignite the Church regarding the love of God symbolized by the heart of Jesus.  She was a Visitation nun who was “not to be extraordinary except by being ordinary,” however on December 21, 1674, she experienced the first of her revelations and over the next 13 months, Christ appeared to her at intervals. His human heart was to be the symbol of his divine-human love.

Reflect on the idea that “our scientific-materialistic age cannot ‘prove’ private revelations. Theologians … admit that we do not have to believe in them.

Yet, it is impossible to deny the message Margaret Mary heralded: that God loves us with a passionate love. Her insistence on reparation and prayer and the reminder of final judgment should be sufficient to ward off superstition and superficiality in devotion to the Sacred Heart while preserving its deep Christian meaning.”

 

May God Be Praised.