“Behold this Heart, which, notwithstanding the burning love for man with which it is consumed and exhausted, meets with no other return from the generality of Christians than sacrilege, contempt, indifference, and ingratitude.” (Our Lord’s words to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque)
In his 1915 letter to Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey encouraging his work of consecrating families to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Benedict XV wrote of the pressing needs of the time:
“Nothing, as a matter of fact, is more suitable to the needs of the present day than your enterprise. To pervert, both in private and in public life, the concept of morality engendered and fostered by the Church, and, after having almost effaced the last vestige of Christian wisdom and decency, to lead human society back to the miserable institutions of paganism, such is the plan which too many are trying to realize today. Would that their efforts were fruitless! Moreover, the attacks of the wicked are directed primarily against the family.” (Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey, Jesus, King of Love, p. 196) …