FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS; THIRD FRIDAY AFTER PENTECOST

 FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

THIRD FRIDAY AFTER PENTECOST





The Missal provides, as for this Feast, as follows:
Though the devotion to the Scared Heart of Jesus is of great antiquity in the Church, yet it was reserved to the Holy Mother Mary Alacoque, of the Order of the Visitation, in the year 1690, to make this devotion public. During the Octave of Corpus Christi, in the year 1690 our Blessed Lord appeared to His devoted handmaid, and disclosing to her his heart, said: ‘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.’ But what will it avail us to have listened to these so just complaints of our Saviour, if we are not moved with compassion and generously resolved to testify our sorrow for our past indifference by honouring His Sacred Heart and by repairing, as far as lies in our power, the insults to which His ardent desire to dwell with the children of men daily exposes Him in the august Sacrament of His love?
The Collect:
O God, who, in the Heart of Thy Son, wounded by our sins, dost mercifully bestow on us infinite treasures of love: grant, we beseech Thee, that whilst we render It the devout homage of our affection, we may also fulfil our duty of worthy satisfaction. Through the same Jesus Christ Thy Son….
The Gospel of Today, is St John 19.31-37
At that time: The Jews (Because it was the Parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the Cross on the Sabbath day (for that was a great Sabbath day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with Him. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened His side, and immediately there came out blood and water. And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true, that you may believe. For these things were done that the Scripture might be fulfilled” You shall not break a bone of Him. And again another Scripture saith: They shall look upon Him whom they pierced.

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