Today's Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus gained liturgical status in the late 17th century, but popular devotion existed before that for people who wanted more than doctrinal ideas about the ...
June, the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, emphasizes importance to devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the ...
National Catholic Register: 5 Ways to Celebrate Jesus’ Sacred Heart This Month
The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion that began in the 12th century and became more popular after Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s, ...
America Magazine: No one wants to be meek. But that’s how Jesus finds us.
No one wants to be meek. But that’s how Jesus finds us.
National Catholic Register: St. Gemma Galgani’s Visions and Visits of the Sacred Heart
This Sunday’s Gospel gives a rare opportunity to enter into Jesus’ personal prayer. Listening to his prayer allows for a glimpse of his interior life and mysticism. Shifts in grammar and language ...
The eighth psychological portrait I have to convey is that of Jesus. Uh, how does a believer properly share his impressions of the psychology of Jesus? This is matter for fear and awe. Well, I will ...
Who of us wants to be called meek? That alone should tell us how distanced from this virtue our contemporary lives have become. We think of “meek” as meaning “deficient in spirit or courage.” Two ...