Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us!

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   The Month of June is dedicated to the honor of the Lord's Most Sacred Heart, a devotion of scriptural origins that began in the early Church, but which developed into an established Feast after a series of mystical visions were revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun of the 17th century. It was reported that Jesus appeared to her, revealing His Heart as a symbol of His love and asking her to spread devotion to it to counter the spiritual apathy of the time. This led to the further institution of "First Fridays" as a devotion and reparation for the sins against our Lord's Sacred Heart. This year, the Feast of the Sacred Heart falls on Friday, June 12th! 

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Learn more about this wonderful devotion:

https://carmelitesistersocd.com/devotion-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/

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“Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love; and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what I feel most keenly is that it is hearts which are consecrated to Me, that treat Me thus. Therefore, I ask of you that the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special Feast to honor My Heart, by communicating on that day, and making reparation to It by a solemn act, in order to make amends for the indignities which It has received during the time It has been exposed on the altars. I promise you that My Heart shall expand Itself to shed in abundance the influence of Its Divine Love upon those who shall thus honor It, and cause It to be honored.”

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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,

Have Mercy on Us!​​

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Oremvs Pro Invicem!

Father Albert Beltz, KHS, Pastor​​

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