Fr. Dan Cambra: June is the Month of the Sacred Heart

By Fr. Dan Cambra, MIC,  Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M., May 30, 2021

June is the Month of the Sacred Heart, in recognition of Jesus’ apparitions starting in 1673 to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a member of the Visitation Sisters, through whom He asked for devotion to His Sacred Heart.

In that first apparition, Jesus enveloped St. Margaret Mary in a mystical experience of His love. She reported that Jesus allowed her “to recline for a long time on His divine breast, where He disclosed to me the marvels of His love and the unutterable secrets of His Sacred Heart.”

In His second apparition to her, a First Friday in 1674, Jesus showed St. Margaret His Heart, “more dazzling than the sun and transparent as crystal.” The Cross stood above it, and a crown of thorns encircled it, signifying the wounds it had endured as a result of our sins. …

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