What's the difference between the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the devotion to Divine Mercy?

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They seem so similar. Do most people who have devotion to one have devotion to the other?
 
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Me too had this thought ,personally i thing ,the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Beginning and the Devotion to the Divine is the End ,the heart was opened by the Roman Soldier Lance-nus and now open it’s flood Gates as an ocean of Mercy.

Revelation 21:6 Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
 
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it’s not the same thing. Devotion to the Sacred Heart is focused on making reparation to Jesus, on spending time with Him and receiving Him in Communion, to make up for all the people who ignore him or don’t care. The Sacred Heart devotion also had a purpose of encouraging more frequent Holy Communion, since at the time St. Margaret Mary had her visions regarding the devotion, people often didn’t receive Communion for long periods of time as it was perceived that you had to be in a really holy state to receive Jesus and even if you’d just been to confession and received absolution, you were likely still too sinful to receive.

Divine Mercy devotion by contrast is more focused on trusting in Jesus’ Divine Mercy to save us and to save other people. It’s not so much about making reparation to Jesus.

Both devotions are good and I practice both. I do First Fridays for the Sacred Heart and pray the Divine Mercy chaplet regularly and do Divine Mercy Sunday. But not the same thing.
 
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