O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. The wounds and thorns symbolize the manner of His death, and the fire represents His burning undying love.ĭay 1 – Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Jesus’ Sacred Heart is typically pictured as a flaming heart, pierced, surrounded by a crown of thorns and bleeding. By order of Pope Leo XIII in 1899, all of mankind was solemnly consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Jesus attached twelve promises to those who practiced devotion to His Sacred Heart including peace in families, consolation in time of trouble, abundant blessings, and refuge at the hour of death. He asked her to promote devotion to His sacred heart, symbolic of His love for humanity.
John, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a sister at the Visitation convent in France, began to have visions of Jesus. On December 27, 1673, on the Feast of St. Little by little the devotions separated and the first feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was celebrated on August 31, 1670. He shared devotion to the Sacred Heart along with his devotion to the Immaculate Heart. Eudes made the devotion public in the seventeenth century, gave it an Office, and established a feast for it. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries the devotion was practiced by different congregations such as Franciscans, Dominicans and Carthusians but remained an individual or private devotion. Passages from the published work “Vitis mystica” inspired the devotion and were used by the Church for the lessons of the Second Nocturn of the feast. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, devotion to the Sacred Heart arose in Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries.
It is the love He shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit for humanity. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a special form of devotion to the physical heart of Jesus.
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