Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

This Friday, June 16
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Join us for Mass this Friday to honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

In his apparitions to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17^th century, Jesus said:

“See this Heart that has loved men so much and has spared itself nothing until it has exhausted itself and consumed itself in order to show them its love. I receive in return scarcely anything but ingratitude because of their irreverence and sacrileges, and because of the coldness and disdain they show towards Me in this sacrament of love. But what hurts me still more is that it is hearts who are consecrated to me who treat me thus. This is why I ask you that…a special feast day may be dedicated to the honor of my Heart by receiving Communion on this day and making reparation with some act of atonement.”

The Eucharist never exhausts the ways in which Jesus can be present among us…He is with us in many ways…Christ is present in the needy…He is present among us whenever we gather in his name. In a special way he is present in the divine Word. All these are real ways of being present among us, but in the Holy Eucharist, God is present among us in a way par excellence, given that in this sacrament Christ is there in his very person, in a true, real, and substantial way.  This presence, Paul VI teaches, is called ‘real’ not in an exclusive sense as though the other forms of presence were not ‘real’ but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence, by which Christ is made present here among us, whole and entire, without doubt, both God and man.
Fr. Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God. Vol. 5, p 280