First Friday tomorrow, Oct. 3

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Just a reminder that tomorrow is First Friday and for those familiar with this devotion, a day to offer special reparation to the Heart of Jesus:

…it is related in the life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun of the Visitation Order, that our Savior revealed to this servant His wish that the devotion and the Feast of His Sacred Heart should be established and propagated in the Church. In this way, devout believers would, by their adoration and prayer, make reparation for the injuries His Heart constantly receives from ungrateful humanity when He is exposed in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. It is also related that while this devout nun was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus Christ showed her His Heart surrounded by thorns, with a cross on the top, and in a throne of flames.

“Behold the Heart,” she reports that Jesus spoke to her, “that has loved humanity, and has spared nothing for them, even to consuming itself to give them pledges of Its love, but which receives from the majority of people, no other return but ingratitude, and insults toward the Sacrament of Love.”… (Underlining is mine)

For those unfamiliar with this devotion, see HERE

May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be praised adored and loved with grateful affection at every moment in all the tabernacles of the world even to the end of time.