Dear Family of God,

What is The Sacred Heart Devotion and why consecration to Him is important?

On this Corpus Christi Sunday I will be talking about the Scared Heart because the Eucharist is His alive, beating Heart, full of love for all Humanity.

Why the devotion? Because Jesus said, “Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of Heart.” (Matthew 11:29). It is Jesus Himself inviting all of us to enter into the very center of His Divine and Human love. Many saints (St. Bernard Clairvaux, St. Bonaventure, St. Gertrude, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Philip Neri, St. John Eudes, St. Margaret Mary, etc.) and Popes (Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XII, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Pope Benedict XVI), have understood and proclaimed this with fire.

When Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice on the cross, his heart was pierced with a lance and there “flowed out blood and water” (John 19:34). The Church Fathers interpreted this blood and water as representing the waters of Baptism and the Blood of the Eucharist, hence; the Sacred Heart is the source of the Sacramental life of the Church.

The Sacred Heart is not sentiment. It is theological reality—the infinite love of God made visible, tangible, that is, the Holy Eucharist, is Body, Blood, Soul and divinity of Jesus offered up for the sake of every soul.

Jesus wants us to know Him; to know how much He loved us, he wants to enter a relationship with us. Devotion the Sacred Heart, then, is devotion to the very essence of God, the deepest core of His Divine nature. We expressed this devotion by coming to Mass every First Friday of the Month, spending a Holy Hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, by Consecrating ourselves and our Family to him and doing Enthronement in our home, celebrating his feast Day on a Friday after Corpus Christi Sunday.

May Mary, the Mother of God help us all to have an intimate relationship with Jesus.

Yours in Christ through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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