what is the devotion to the sacred heart of jesus

The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Eye of Jesus. The Feast of the Sacred Eye is a movable feast, always falling xix days after Pentecost. This year, it falls on June 28th.

I honey this devotion considering it is all nearly how much Jesus loves united states, despite how tremendously unworthy we are. This message is then of import for us, in fact, that Jesus spoke about it to a not bad many saints: Saints Lutgarde, Mecthilde and Gertrude the Not bad preceded Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and Blest Mary of the Divine Heart and Sister Josefa Menendez.

St John of the Cross said, "it should exist known that if a person is seeking God, his beloved is seeking him much more." I remember the same can exist said of Jesus and His Sacred Heart — we may love Him a whole lot, but our love for Him will never come close to how very much He loves us. In fact, nosotros are only able to dear Him because of His dearest for the states. Knowing that, it's impossible to not be grateful, and to want to do everything I can to love Him back, and to love others because He asks me to.

HISTORY

WHY THE HEART?

"The eye has e'er been seen every bit the 'center' or essence a person ('the heart of the affair,' 'you are my heart,' 'take it to heart,' etc.) and the wellspring of our emotional lives and love ('you break my heart,' 'my middle sings,' etc.). Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is devotion to Jesus Christ Himself, but in the particular ways of meditating on his interior life and on His threefold dearest –His divine dear, His burning love that fed His human being will, and His sensible love that affects His interior life.

–Pope Pius XII, from his 1956 encyclical,Haurietis Aquas  (On Devotion To The Sacred Centre).

Kathy Schiffer does a cracking job summarizing the history of this devotion in her National Catholic Register blog, "Where Did Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Come up From?" She says:

"Devotion to the wounded heart of Jesus has its origins in the eleventh century when pious Christians meditated on the Five Wounds of Christ. There grew upwardly amid the faithful prayers to the Sacred Eye, prayers to the Shoulder Wound of Christ—private devotions which helped Christians to focus on the passion and expiry of Christ, and thus to grow in honey for our Savior who had suffered and died for us."

In the 14th century, St Gertrude the Great received an apparition of Jesus on the feast of St John the Evangelist. Jesus allowed St Gertrude to rest her head well-nigh the wound in his side—and she heard His Sacred Centre beat. She later asked St John why he never said anything about hearing that in his Gospel. The saint told her that information was to be reserved for when man's love for God became then common cold, information technology needed rekindling.

In 1670, a French priest, Fr. Jean Eudes, celebrated the first Banquet of the Sacred Heart.

"The Sacred Heart of Jesus, whether considered in His Divinity or in His humanity, is more ardently enkindled with love for His Male parent, loving Him infinitely more than at whatsoever given moment, than all the hearts of angels and saints can dearest him throughout all eternity."

–St John Eudes

THE REVELATION OF THE SACRED Centre OF JESUS TO ST MARGUERITE-MARIE ALACOQUE

I cannot improve on the words of a saint and of Jesus Christ Himself. Therefore, I will permit the diary of St Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (her non-Anglicized name) tell the story:

"It was to St. Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, a humble nun of the Order of the Visitation of Our Lady that Our Lord chose to reveal to the world His Sacred Heart, thus opening a New Era of Grace and Mercy in the history of the Church and the world. These private revelations took identify during the years 1673-1675, and are drawn from the diary of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the witness of her young man sisters, and that of her spiritual director, St. Claude de La Colombiere."

On December 27th, 1673, at Paray-le-Monial, French republic, Visitation Sister Marquerite-Marie Alacoque was praying. She described what happened:

"I was praying before the Blest Sacrament when I felt myself wholly penetrated with that Divine Presence, just to such a degree that I lost all idea of myself and the place where I was, and abandoned myself to this Divine Spirit, yielding up my heart to the power of His love. He made me tranquillity for a long fourth dimension upon His Sacred Breast, where He disclosed to me the marvels of His Honey and the inexplicable secrets of His Sacred Eye, which so far He had concealed from me. And so information technology was that, for the kickoff time, He opened to me His Divine Heart in a manner and so existent and sensible as to be across all dubiousness, past reason of the furnishings which this favor produced in me, fearful, as I always am, of deceiving myself in anything that I say of what passes in time. Information technology seems to me that this is what took place:"

Jesus said to her:

"My Divine Heart is so inflamed with dearest for men, and for you in particular that, being unable any longer to contain within Itself the flames of Its burning beloved, It needs to spread them abroad through you, and manifest Itself to them (mankind) in society to enrich them with the precious graces of sanctification and salvation necessary to withdraw them from the abyss of perdition. I have chosen you as an abyss of unworthiness and ignorance for the achievement of this corking pattern, in order that everything may be washed past Me."

"After this He asked me for my heart, which I begged Him to have. He did and then and placed it in His ain Adorable Eye where He showed it to me as a little atom which was being consumed in this great furnace, and withdrawing it thence as a burning flame in the form of a heart, He restored it to the place whence He had taken it saying to me:"

"My well-dearest, I give yous a precious token of My dearest, having enclosed within your side a piffling spark of its glowing flames, that is may serve y'all for a middle and consume you to the final moment of your life; its avidity volition never be exhausted, and you will be able to find some slight relief only past bleeding. Fifty-fifty this remedy I shall so mark with My Cross, that it will bring you lot more humiliation and suffering than alleviation. Therefore, I will that you inquire for it with simplicity, both that you lot may practice what is ordered you lot and also to give you the consolation of shedding your blood on the cross of humiliations. Equally a proof that the great favor I have done to you is not imagination, and that it is the foundation of all those which I intend further to confer upon you, although I have airtight the wound in your side, the pain volition always remain. If before, y'all have taken only the name of My slave, I now requite you lot that of the beloved disciple of My Sacred Heart.'

"After such a bespeak favor which lasted for a long time, during which I knew not whether I was in heaven or on earth, I remained for several days, as it were, on burn and inebriated (with divine beloved) and then completely out of myself, that I had to practice myself violence in club to utter a single word. The effort I had to make in order to join in recreation or to take nutrient was so great that itwas all I could exercise to overcome myself, which was a cause of considerable humiliation to me. I was not able to sleep, because of the hurting of the wound, which is so precious to me; it produces such heat within me that it burns and consumes me alive. I too felt such a plentitude of God,that I could not explain myself to my Superioress, as I should accept wished, regardless of whatever suffering and confusion which the recital of these favors might cause me. I would rather accept accused myself of my sins before the whole world than speak of these graces on account of my farthermost unworthiness. It would take been a groovy consolation to me had I been permitted to read aloud my full general confession in the refectory, in order thereby to make known the depth of corruption which is in me, so that none of the favors I received might be attributed to me."

Our Lord makes known the Devotion of the First Fridays: June 1674

"On the Get-go Friday of each calendar month, the above-mentioned grace continued with the pain in my side was renewed in the post-obit manner: the Sacred Centre was represented to me as a resplendent sun, the called-for rays of which fell vertically upon my heart, which was inflamed with a fire then fervid that information technology seemed as if it would reduce me to ashes. It was at these times especially that my Divine Master taught me what He required of me and disclosed to me the secrets of His loving Eye. On one occasion, while the Blest Sacrament was exposed, feeling wholly withdrawn within myself past an extraordinary recollection of all my senses and powers, Jesus Christ, my sugariness Master, presented Himself to me, all resplendent with glory, His Five Wounds shining like and then many suns. Flames issued from every part of His Sacred Humanity, peculiarly from His Ambrosial Breast, which resembled an open furnace and disclosed to me His most loving and most amiable Heart, which was the living source of these flames. It was then that He made known to me the ineffable marvels of His pure love and showed me to what an excess He had loved men, from whom He received just ingratitude and contempt:"

"I feel this more than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My Love, I should think just little of all I accept washed for them and would wish, were it possible, to suffer even so more. But the sole render they brand for all My eagerness to do them practiced is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness. Do you at to the lowest degree console Me past supplying for their ingratitude, as far as you are able.'

 "On representing to Him my inability, He replied:

"Behold, this volition supply for all that is wanting to you.'"

 "And at the aforementioned time His Divine Heart being opened, there issued from It a flame and then ardent that I thought I should be consumed, for I was wholly penetrated with it, and being no longer able to bear it, I besought Him to have pity on my weakness."

'I will be your strength. Fear nothing, only be circumspect to My vocalism and to what I shall require of yous that y'all may be in the requisite disposition for the achievement of My designs. In the first place, you shall receive Me in Holy Communion as often as obedience (to your confessor and superiors) volition permit you, despite the mortification and humiliation it may cause you lot, which you must receive every bit pledges of My Love. You shalt, moreover, communicate on the First Fri of each calendar month. Every dark betwixt the Thursday and the (first) Fri I will make you share in My mortal sadness which I was pleased to experience in the Garden of Olives, and this sadness, without y'all being able to empathize it, shall reduce you to a kind of agony harder to endure than death itself. And in order to bear Me visitor in the apprehensive prayer that I then offered to My Father, in the midst of My anguish, yous shall rise betwixt 11 P.Thousand. and midnight, and remain prostrate with Me for an hr, not only to gratify the divine anger by begging mercy for sinners, but likewise to mitigate in some way the bitterness which I felt at that time on finding Myself abandoned by My Apostles, which obliged Me to reproach them for non being able to picket one 60 minutes with Me. During that hour you shall exercise what I shall teach yous. Only listen, My girl, believe non lightly and trust not every spirit, for Satan is enraged and will seek to deceive you. Therefore, do zippo without the approval of those who guide you; being thus nether the authority of obedience, his efforts against yous will be in vain, for he has no power over the obedient.'"

Our Lord Requests the Devotion of Starting time Fridays be adept: June xvi, 1675

During the octave in preparation for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, while St. Margaret was shut to the choir grate, Our Lord appeared to her upon the Altar.

"Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared cipher, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to bear witness Its love; and in return, I receive from the greater function simply ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Beloved. But what I feel well-nigh keenly is that it is hearts which are consecrated to Me, that care for Me thus. Therefore, I ask of you that the Friday afterward the Octave of Corpus Christi be set autonomously for a special Banquet to honor My Eye, past 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 Middle shall expand Itself to shed in abundance the influence of Its Divine Dear upon those who shall thus honor It, and cause Information technology to be honored."

The Devotion is Made Known to the World

Our Lord had St. Margaret ask that a Banquet in laurels of His Eye be offered Him by the Church on the Friday subsequently the Solemnity of His Trunk and Claret (Corpus Christi), that such homage be paid to Himself by the King of France, and that the mission of propagating this devotion was to exist entrusted to the Order of the Visitation Sisters and to the priests of the Society of Jesus.

Later St. Margaret made this known to her spiritual director, the future St. Claude de la Colombiere.

He consecrated himself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and began to spread the devotion. From Paray-le-Monial, her convent, this devotion spread rapidly, under the care of the Jesuits, to the entire Church. Today, merely exterior of Paris, France, you lot can visit the Basilica built equally an Human activity of National Reparation to the Sacred Centre of Jesus, which commemorates the Apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. She is buried at Paray-le-Monial, which is between Lyons and Paris. Her feast day is October sixteen.

• On May eight, 1873, the devotion to the Sacred Heart was approved by Pope Pius Ix.
• On June 11, 1899, Pope Leo XIII solemnly consecrated all mankind to the Sacred Center. (Annum Sacrum)
• On May 8, 1928, Pope Pius XI wrote Miserentissimus Redemptor(On Reparation to the Sacred Centre).
• On May 15, 1956, Pope Pius XII wrote Haurietis Aquas(On Devotion to the Sacred Heart)

PROMISES OF JESUS TO ST MARGARET MARY

THE 12 PROMISES of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary for Sacred Heart devotees:

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their land of life.
2. I will institute peace in their homes.
3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
4. I will exist their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death.
5. I will bestow arable blessings upon all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall discover in my Centre the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall apace mount to high perfection.
9. I volition anoint those places wherein the image of My Sacred Eye shall be exposed and venerated.
10. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names eternally written in my Heart.
12. I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Eye that my all-powerful love volition grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in 9 consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this final moment.

THE NINE Kickoff Friday DEVOTION

Conditions required:

• Receive Holy Communion
• on the kickoff Friday of the month
• for nine consecutive months, without interruption
• with the proper disposition (no attachment to sin)
• with the intention of making reparation to the Sacred Middle of Jesus, and to obtain the fruit of this great promise
• Go to confession inside 8 days of the Start Friday.

PRAYERS

DAILY Offering

O Jesus, through the Immaculate Eye of Mary, I offer you lot all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this solar day, for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart, in matrimony with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in reparation for my sins, for the intentions of all my relatives and friends, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Most Sacred Center of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my torso and soul to exist entirely one with Your Heart, existence sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Male parent pleading for the coming of His Kingdom.

Please receive this humble offering of myself. Utilize me as You will for the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls.

Most holy Mother of God, never let me be separated from Your Divine Son. Please defend and protect me as Your Special Kid.

Amen.

PRAYER Past ST GERTRUDE THE GREAT

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary. O my adorable and loving Savior, consume my center with the burning fire with which Yours is aflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which menstruum from Your dear. Let my centre be united with Yours. Allow my will be conformed to Yours in all things. May Your Will be the rule of all my desires and actions.

PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART

O near holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every approving,
I adore you, I dearest you, and with a lively sorrow for my sins,
I offering you this poor heart of mine.
Brand me humble, patient, pure, and wholly obedient to Your will.
Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in Yous and for You.
Protect me in the midst of danger.

Condolement me in my afflictions.
Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs,
Your blessings on all that I exercise, and the grace of a holy death.
Inside Your Heart I place my every intendance.
In every demand let me come to you with humble trust maxim,
Heart of Jesus, assist me.
Amen.

Human activity OF Consecration TO THE SACRED HEART

Written by St Margaret Mary Alacoque

O Sacred Middle of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer upward my person and my life, my deportment, trials, and sufferings, that my unabridged being may henceforth but be employed in loving, honoring and glorifying Thee. This is my irrevocable will, to vest entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy dearest, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee.

I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the 60 minutes of my death. Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification earlier God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my unabridged confidence in Thee, O Heart of Beloved, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so securely in my center that I may never forget Thee or exist separated from Thee.
I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted servants.

Amen.

Featured Prototype: particular of mosaic of the Sacred Heart, used with permission of Unsplash.

Prototype of antiquarian Sacred Centre Holy Carte, Wikimedia Commons.

Epitome of a woman praying, Unsplash.

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Source: https://spiritualdirection.com/2019/06/24/a-sacred-heart-primer

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