Msgr. Roger Landry: June 16.. the 350th Anniversary of the Great Apparition of the Sacred Heart
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By Msgr. Roger Landry, National Catholic Register, June 16, 2025
Monsignor Roger Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River (MA), is National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. He can also be heard on EWTN radio’s Conversations with Consequences every weekend.
COMMENTARY: As devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus reaches a major milestone, Christ’s words remain a challenge: to return love for love and console his heart in the Holy Eucharist.
Those devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus have been looking forward to this June 16 for a long time.
That’s because it is the 350th anniversary of the most significant of Jesus’ apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, in which he revealed to her the mysteries of his heart and requested the inauguration of what would become the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It happened on June 16, 1675. St. Margaret Mary was praying close to the Eucharistic Jesus in the tabernacle in the monastery of the Visitation nuns in Paray-le-Monial, France. Jesus — she later wrote down at the behest of St. Claude la Colombière, her spiritual director — appeared to her over the altar, pointed to his heart, and said: …
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