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PROMISES OF THE SACRED HEART TO ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE I will give them all of the graces necessary for their state of life. I will establish peace in their houses. I will comfort them in all their afflictions. I will be their strength during life and above all during death. I will bestow a large blessing upon all their undertakings. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy. Tepid souls shall grow fervent. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection. I will bless every place where a picture of my heart shall be set up and honored. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts. Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out. I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their sacraments; My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.

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IN FESTO SACRATISSIMI CORDIS JESU (Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) Protestantism in the XVI century and Jansenism in the XVIII century have attempted to deface one of the essential dogmas of Christianity: the love of God toward all men. The Holy Spirit, who is spirit of love, and that leads the Church to oppose herself to the intrusive heresy, so that the Bribe of Christ, far from seeing her love for Jesus diminish, she felt Him grow more, she inspired the feast of the Sacred Heart. The office of this day shows “the triumphant progress made by the devotion of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Very often indeed, during the course of past ages, Fathers, Doctors, and Saints have celebrated our Redeemer's love: and they have said, that the wound opened in the side of Christ was the hidden fountain of all graces. Moreover, from the Middle Ages onward, when the faithful began to show a more tender piety towards the most sacred Humanity of the Saviour, contemplative souls became accustomed to penetrate through that wound almost to the very Heart itself, wounded for the love of men.” (First Nocturnal). - St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) talks in this sense: “For to this end was thy side pierced, that an entry might be open unto us. To this end was thy Heart wounded, that in it we might be able to dwell secure from alarms from without.” (Third Nocturnal). The two Benedictine virgins St. Gertrude (1256-1302) and St. Mechtilde (1241-1299) in the XIII century had a vision very clear of the greatness of the devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. John the Evangelist appearing at the first announced her that “the preaching of the delight of these heartbeats was kept for the present time, so that the world, now growing old and sluggish in the love of God, may grow warm again from hearing of such things.” (Herald of Divine Love, IV book, chapter 4). This Heart, say the two Saints, is an altar on which Jesus Christ offers Himself to the Father, perfect victim and completely pleasant. Is a golden thurible from which rise toward the Father so many puffs of incense smoke as much as the men whom Christ suffered. IN this Heart the praises and the thanksgivings that we give to God and all the good works that we do, are dignified and become pleasant to God. - The cult of the Christian people toward the Most Holy Heart of Jesus, aimed at worshiping the fleshly Heart of the Redeemer and His immense love for humanity, had its foundations also in the teachings of St. Albert the Great (1200-1280), of the blessed Henry Suso (1295-1366), of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), of St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), of St. Francis of Sales (1567-1622). To give this cult public and official, Providence aroused at first St. John Eudes (1601-1680), who composed since 1679, for the Congregation called of the Eudists, an Office and a Mass in honour of the Divine Heart, of which feast was for the first time celebrate, with the approval of many Bishops of France, the 20th of October 1672. Then choose one of the spiritual daughters of St. Francis of Sales, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom the Lord appeared between 1673 and 1675; He showed her His Heart, in Paray-le-Monial, on June 16, 1675, the day of Corpus Domini, and He requested to be instituted a special feast of His Most Holy Heart to be celebrated every year the Friday that followed the Octave of Corpus Domini. Lastly, God used to propagate such devotion, of the blessed Claude de La Colombière (1641-1682), religious of the Society of Jesus, “who put all his zeal for the propagation of devotion to the Sacred Heart” (D. Guéranger, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). In 1765, Clement XIII approved the feast and the office of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the 23th of August 1856 Pius IX extended it to the whole Church. Leo XIII the 25th of May 1899 consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus the Church and mankind. In 1929 Pius XI, devout lover and propagator of the Sacred Heart, provided the feast of a new Mass and a new Office, and elevated it to double rite of I class with a privileged Octave.

This participation in the Eucharistic life of Jesus is the great means of making reparation with Him, and entering fully into the spirit of the feast of the Sacred Heart, as Pius XI explains very well in his Encyclical Miserentissimus (Second Nocturne of the Octave) and in the Act of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which must be read on this day before the Most Holy Sacrament exposed.

The Vicar of Christ, against the heresy of secularism or laicism, intended to protest “in the face of heaven and earth that there is no God but the Lord” (Cardinal A.I. Schuster, Liber Sacramentorum. Note storiche e liturgiche sul Messale Romano. Vol. V. Le nozze eterne dell'Agnello (La Sacra Liturgia dalla Domenica della Trinità all'Avvento), Turin, Marietti, 1930, pages 92-106). Pius XII lastly, on May 15, 1956, he dedicated the monumental Encyclical Haurietis aquas to the cult of the Sacred Heart. In this fundamental document the Supreme Pontiff masterfully taught on the relationship between the Sacred Heart and the Eucharist, Sacrament and Sacrifice: “Even before He ate the Last Supper with His disciples Christ Our Lord, since He knew He was about to institute the sacrament of His body and blood by the shedding of which the new covenant was to be consecrated, felt His heart roused by strong emotions, which He revealed to the Apostles in these words: "With desire have I desired to eat this Pasch with you before I suffer." (Lk. 22:15); And these emotions were doubtless even stronger when "taking bread, He gave thanks, and broke, and gave to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you, this do in commemoration of Me.” Likewise the chalice also, after He had supped, saying, “This chalice is the new testament in My blood, which shall be shed for you.” (Lk. 22:19-20.). It can therefore be declared that the divine Eucharist, both the sacrament which He gives to men and the sacrifice in which He unceasingly offers Himself from the rising of the sun till the going down thereof,"(Mal. 1:11) and likewise the priesthood, are indeed gifts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”. Coming after all the feasts of Christ, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart completes them by bringing them all together in a single object, which materially is the heart of flesh of a Man-God and formally is the immense charity, of which this Heart is a symbol. This feast does not refer to a particular mystery in the life of the Savior, but embraces them all. It is the feast of God's love for men, a love that made Jesus descend to earth with His Incarnation for all (Offertorium), who went up on the Cross for our Redemption for all (Gospel, II antiphon of Vespers) and which for all He descends every day on our altars with the Transubstantiation, to apply to us the fruits of His death on Golgotha (Communio). - These three mysteries show us more especially the divine charity of Jesus in the course of the centuries (Introit). "Thy love compelled thee to assume A mortal body, man to save" (Matins hymn). It is his love that wanted this heart to be pierced on the cross (Invitatory, Gospel) so that a torrent of mercy and graces (Preface) flowed through it that we go to draw with joy (Vespers verse); a water which in Baptism purifies us of our sins (Office of the Octave) and the blood which in the Eucharist nourishes our souls (Communio). And, as the Eucharist is the extension of the Incarnation and the memorial of Calvary, Jesus asked that this feast be placed immediately after the Octave of the Most Holy Sacrament. - The manifestations of Christ's love bring out more the ingratitude of men, who correspond to this love with an ever greater coldness and indifference, therefore this solemnity essentially presents a character of reparation, which demands detestation and indifference. atonement for all sins, the actual cause of the agony that Jesus endured two thousand years ago. - If He foresaw our sins then, he also knew in advance our participation in his sufferings and this consoled him in his pains (Offertorium). He saw above all the Holy Masses and Holy Communions, in which we make ourselves victims every day with the great Victim, offering to God, in the same dispositions of the Sacred Heart in all the acts of His life, at Calvary and now in Heaven, all our pains and all our sufferings, accepted with generosity.

Sancte Vite, Modeste, Crescentia Martyres, orate pro nobis!

Occured the liberation, the ungrateful emperor not being able to persuade him with the greatest rewards to venerate the gods, loaded with chains he had him thrown in prison together with Modestus and Crescentia. The, finding them even more inflexible, commanded to had them thrown in an enormous caldron filled with of liquefied lead, of resin and boiling pitch; in which singing they, like the three Hebrew children, sacred hymns, were removed and exposed to the lions, who, crouching down, began to lick their feet. Then the emperor was furious, because he saw the multitude being moved in front of the miracle, he ordered that stretched out on an easel, their limbs be cut off and their bones plucked out. Meanwhile there were thunder, lightning, and great earthquakes, whereby the temples of the gods collapsed and many were oppressed. Florentia, noble lady, embalmed their remains and buried them honourably. The fame of St. Vitus from Southern Italy extended to the extremities of Christianity, such is his thaumaturgical power - he is one of the fourteen Holy Helpers - against epilepsy and chorea or "dance of St. Vitus"; against excessive need for sleep and catalepsy; against insomnia and the bites of mad dogs and demonic obsession.

SAINT VITUS, MODESTUS AND CRESCENTIA, MARTYRS Vitus was baptized still child – he was fifteen years old – to the unbeknownst to the Pagan father; who, just after getting to know it, did not omit anything to detach the son from the Christian religion. And since he remained inflexible, he handed him to the judge Valerian to punish him by beating him. But persisting always in his resolution, he was returned to the father. But the father thought of punishing him more severely, Vitus, warned by an Angel, emigrated, accompanied by his preceptor Modestus and his nurse Crescentia, in foreign land, from Sicily to Lucania; where he reached such reputation of sanctity, that when the fame reached Diocletian, this emperor called him, so that he would free the son from diabolical nuisance.

Sancte Basile Magne, Episcope Confessor et Ecclesiæ Doctor, ora pro nobis!

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