June 5 - First Friday - Communions of Reparation

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

There are still some Churches who are not yet offering “public Masses” but if you are among those who can only watch Mass on Live-streamed TV or Computer, hopefully you will still offer your “Spiritual Communion” in Reparation to the Sacred Heart, today.

God willing there are still Catholics all over the world who remember the First Friday Devotion revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and Jesus’ words to her:

“Behold this heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to the point of spending itself and being consumed to prove its love to them. And in return, I receive from most men only ingratitude because of their irreverence and sacrileges and the coldness and scorn they have for me in this Sacrament of love. But what offends me most is that hearts consecrated to me act in this way. Do thou at least console me by supplying for their ingratitude, as far as thou art able.”

After hearing these words, Margaret could only express to Jesus her impotence, and He replied:

“Behold, this will supply for all that is wanting in thee.” And at the same time His Divine Heart, being opened, issued a flame so ardent that she thought she should be consumed, for she was wholly penetrated within it, and no longer being able to bear it, she asked Him to have pity on her weakness. He then responded:

“I will be thy strength, fear nothing, but be attentive to my voice and to what I shall require of thee that thou mayest be in the requisite dispositions for the accomplishment of my designs.”
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For more on St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and her life and the the apparitions of Jesus to her see: https://www.piercedhearts.org/theology_heart/life_saints/margaret_mary.htm