The Wonderful Secret About Reparations to the Sacred Heart, by M.C. Holbrook

Because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. (Mt. 24:12)

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in seventeenth century France, at a time when religion in her native country had grown cold. What is interesting about the “coldness” of the hearts of the faithful in France during this time is that it had nothing to do with the French Revolution—the event which would later cause the near-eradication of the Christian religion from a nation that once housed the chair of Peter.

The French Revolution would not take place for nearly one hundred years after St. Margaret Mary’s death; therefore, the spiritual error of her time was not a consequence of this political uprising. In fact, the growing indifference towards religion was not the result of ignorance of Church teaching or disinterest in the things of God at all. It was the result of the opposite: religious practice had become severe and stern. In executing the “rules” of their religion to such an exacting degree, the faithful had lost sight of that to which those rules were meant to point: to the understanding and acceptance of Christ’s life-saving mercy and love. …

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