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It ends with the following salutation to MARY…  Not to God.  Not to Jesus Christ.  to the one they refer to as the Blessed Mary EVER VIRGIN…   even though she had other children with her husband Joseph after The Christ was born.

83. Listening to the Word of God is the starting point and criterion for all ecclesial discernment. The
Sacred Scriptures, in fact, testify that God spoke to his people, to the point of giving us in Jesus the
fullness of all Revelation (cf. DV 2), and indicate the places where we can hear his voice. God
communicates with us first of all in the liturgy, because it is Christ himself who speaks “when Sacred
Scripture is read in the Church” (SC 7). God speaks through the living Tradition of the Church, her
magisterium, personal and communal meditation on the Scriptures and the practices of popular piety.

On June 7, 2024, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Accordingly, I would like to offer some insights into the history and significance of this great feast.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus goes back centuries. It is, of course, rooted in Sacred Scripture’s numerous depictions of God’s love for humankind. According to a helpful information page on EWTN’s website, eleventh-century meditations on the five wounds of Jesus can be viewed as a sort of precursor to the Sacred Heart devotion. Then, in the thirteenth century, St. Gertrude the Great (a German Benedictine nun and mystic from the monastery of Helfta) received private revelations about the Sacred Heart specifically.

Subsequently, as Vatican News writes, “On 20 October 1672, Father Giovanni Eudes [St. John Eudes], a priest from Normandy, celebrated this feast for the first time. But there had already been several German mystics that had begun cultivating devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Middle Ages: Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212–1283), Mechtilde of Hockeborn (1240/1–1298) and Gertrude of Helfta (1256–1302)—and the Dominican, Blessed Henry Suso (1295–1336).”

Most famously, however, the Sacred Heart devotion is tied to a series of apparitions of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690). Some consider these visions of Christ as a response to the Jansenist movement that spread during that time period. As Bishop Donald J. Hying writes: “Over the centuries, many Christians developed harsh images of God and Jesus as fearsome judges, distant from human affairs, ready to impose punishment for moral failure. . . . Jansenism, particularly prevalent in France in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, overemphasized the wrath of God, the unworthiness of human nature and fear as a fundamental response to the divine.” “Viewed in this context,” Bishop Hying continues, “the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque manifest a need for a theological correction and a spiritual balance regarding popular perceptions of Jesus.”

In contrast with the overly wrathful image of Christ, on December 27, 1673, Jesus is reported to have said these words to St. Margaret Mary: “My Divine Heart is so passionately in love with humanity that it can no longer contain within itself the flames of its ardent love. It must pour them out.” Vatican News reports that “the following year, Margaret had two other visions. In the first, Jesus’s heart was on a throne enveloped in flames brighter than the sun and more transparent than crystal, surrounded by a crown of thorns. In the other, she saw Christ shining in glory. Flames of fire were coming out of every part of his chest to the point that it looked like a furnace.” Additionally, as EWTN reports: “[Jesus] asked that Catholics receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays of the month and adore Him in the Holy Eucharist.” Specifically, the request was made that the faithful fulfill this request on nine consecutive First Fridays. Friday is significant, of course, because it is the day of Our Lord’s crucifixion by which he offered himself for our redemption in a supreme act of love.

JESUS CHRIST WOULD NEVER request these things.  The Eucharist a practiced by the ROMAN CHURCH is blasphemous.  The Roman clergy believe that they have the power to call down Christ to become a sacrifice over and over again.  But, Christ DIED ONCE for all.  His sacrifice is already sufficient for all.

Believers are not to worship any image!!!  That is why there is no one who knows what Christ looked like. We are not to worship anyone or anything but GOD.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus would never honor FRIDAY as the that He died…BECAUSE HE DID NOT DIE ON FRIDAY!!!  That is a lie.  He was three days in Hell as prophesied.  That is not possible from Friday to Sunday morning.  There have been many studies, articles and videos about the true timing of the final week of Christ on earth.   

JESUS WOULD NEVER REQUEST THAT ANYONE TAKE AN OATH/VOW.  

Matthew 5

³³ Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

³⁴ But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:

³⁵ Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

³⁷ But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

The website of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Hanover, PA, elaborates further, noting that “he [Jesus] also requested that there be a special liturgical feast for His Sacred Heart in the Universal Church to be celebrated eight days after the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.” As Derek Pettinelli relates, “It wasn’t until 90 years later in 1765, that the feast was officially celebrated in France. In 1856, Pope Pius IX made the feast of the Sacred Heart into a universal celebration.” Pettinelli also provides a list of the twelve promises associated with devotion to the Sacred Heart.

JESUS WOULD NEVER INSTITUTE A NEW FEAST DAY.   GOD himself set the DIVINE APPOINTMENTS known as FEASTS.  GOD said we should not ever add anything to his WORD or take anything away from it.   Jesus has no reason to be at all concerned with Roman Catholic Holy Days. 

While it took almost a century to establish the universal feast requested by Our Lord, several popes have since written fervently about the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its associated devotion. In 1899, Pope Leo XIII wrote the encyclical Annum Sacrum, “On Consecration to the Sacred Heart.” Therein, he notes that he is following the “example of Our predecessors Innocent XII, Benedict XVIII, Clement XIII, Pius VI, and Pius IX, devoutly to foster and bring out into fuller light that most excellent form of devotion which has for its object the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” (2). Leo XIII states further that “since there is in the Sacred Heart a symbol and a sensible image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love one another, therefore is it fit and proper that we should consecrate ourselves to his most Sacred Heart—an act which is nothing else than an offering and a binding of oneself to Jesus Christ” (8), adding, “for these reasons We urge and exhort all who know and love this divine Heart willingly to undertake this act of piety” (9).

A few decades later, in May of 1928, Pope Pius XI likewise wrote an encyclical on the Sacred Heart: Miserentissimus Redemptor (“On Reparation to the Sacred Heart”). Therein, the pontiff explicitly connects devotion to the Sacred Heart as a remedy against the Jansenism mentioned earlier: “In the most turbulent times of a more recent age, when the Jansenist heresy[, . . .] hostile to love and piety towards God, was creeping in and preaching that God was not to be loved as a father but rather to be feared as an implacable judge; then the most benign Jesus showed his own most Sacred Heart to the nations lifted up as a standard of peace and charity” (2). Later, he insists that “among those things which properly pertain to the worship of the Most Sacred Heart, a special place must be given to that Consecration, whereby we devote ourselves and all things that are ours to the Divine Heart of Jesus, acknowledging that we have received all things from the everlasting love of God” (4).

First of all, any bible believer should already be solidly aware that EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAVE COMES FROM GOD.  We should always walk with a heart of Thanksgiving.  We should always have our hearts and minds stayed on the LORD and HIS PLAN.  BUT WE DO NOT WORSHIP RELICS.   AND CHRISTS heart never had a crown of thorns… only his head…and it is gone.  Hallelujah.  He is no longer on the cross…  HE IS RISEN VICTORIOUS!!  Hallelujah.  He is not suffering.  AND HE himself heals us, delivers us, saves us.  

Following this papal tradition, Pope Pius XII penned his own lengthy encyclical Haurietis Aquas, “On Devotion to the Sacred Heart,” promulgated on May 15, 1956. Pius XII offers wonderful meditations on the connection between the Sacred Heart and other elements of Catholic faith, such as the Incarnation (including Jesus’s divine and human love), the gift of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Most Holy Eucharist, among others. He also describes the essence and purpose of this devotion, saying:

of its very nature, [it] is a worship of the love with which God, through Jesus, loved us, and at the same time, an exercise of our own love by which we are related to God and to other men. Or to express it in another way, devotion of this kind is directed towards the love of God for us in order to adore it, give thanks for it, and live so as to imitate it; it has this view, as the end to be attained, that we bring that love by which we are bound to God to the rest of men to perfect fulfillment by carrying out daily more eagerly the new commandment which the divine Master gave to His Apostles as a sacred legacy when He said: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you.” (107)

Growing up, my own family was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We prayed nightly the Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus before an image of the Sacred Heart displayed prominently in our home. That devotion has stuck with me and has been a regular part of my own prayer life. I regularly pray it after Mass while kneeling before the tabernacle. I encourage all individuals and families to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart, following the express wishes of so many of our holy pontiffs and, most importantly, the desire of the Sacred Heart of Jesus himself.

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The 12 Promises of the Sacred Heart are a set of promises made by Jesus to St. Margaret Mary: 

• Graces: Jesus will provide all the graces necessary for a person’s state of life
• Peace: Jesus will establish peace in families
• Comfort: Jesus will comfort people in their afflictions
• Refuge: Jesus will be a secure refuge during life and death
• Blessings: Jesus will bestow abundant blessings on undertakings
• Mercy: Sinners will find in the Sacred Heart the source of mercy
• Fervent souls: Lukewarm souls will become fervent
• Images: Jesus will bless every home in which an image of His Heart is exposed and honored
• Priests: Jesus will give priests the power to touch the hardest hearts 
• Devotion: Those who promote devotion to the Sacred Heart will have their names written in Jesus’ Heart
• First Friday devotion: Those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday of the month for nine consecutive months will receive the grace of final penitence 
• United families: Jesus will unite families that are divided

Philip Kemper collected the promises in 1882 and they were printed and distributed around the world.

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