The Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647 to 1690), a nun of the Order of the Visitation in France, was responsible for propagating the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At two years of age she had already developed a horror for sin and a love of the Blessed Sacrament, and at the age of 17, she had a vision of Our Lord Jesus Christ as in His passion. It was in 1673 that Our Lord began His revelations to her of the devotion to His Most Sacred Heart.

Jesus' heart appeared to Margaret Mary as a blazing furnace of divine charity that was “so enflamed with love for mankind, that it can no longer contain within itself the flames of its burning charity.” Jesus’ own sorrow that His unfathomable love for us has been met with ingratitude, coldness and neglect, means that we must make reparation through devotion to His Most Sacred Heart.

This year the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is June 12.