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My dearest Lord Jesus, I will now receive this Holy Communion for love of Thee, in atonement for all the coldness and for all the sins whereby mankind has ever offended Thee in the Sacrament of Thy Love. Amen.



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Jesus complained to St. Margaret Mary of the coldness and ingratitude he received just from Christians alone, much less from the rest of humanity, considering all He did for us in opening up the gates of heaven for us in His Passion so that we might have Eternal Life!

Interestingly enough, Jesus provides a remedy for such spiritual anemia in what has been called His Great Promise, a special devotion to His Sacred Heart he revealed to St. Margaret Mary that involves faithful Catholics taking Communion in a state of grace on nine consecutive First Fridays of each month.

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The main thing, as touched upon earlier, is to approach Jesus’ Sacred Heart with love, contrition, trust in our Lord’s mercy, and a desire to make atonement for all the offenses and indifference He has suffered.

This devotion can increase our capacity for love, and not just for Jesus by any means! Pope Leo XIII, who consecrated the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1899, called the Sacred Heart of Jesus “a symbol and clear image of Jesus Christ's infinite love, a love which impels us to love one another.” Or as Pope John Paul II put it in broader terms, "The heart-to-heart withJesus broadens the human heart on a global scale."

Jesus clearly wishes devotion to His Sacred Heart to enkindle in us, as we say in the Prayer to the Holy Spirit, the fire of His love! As we often see in scripture, Jesus was not one to express himself in a tepid or indifferent fashion.

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Christ’s love for us is unlike any other in this world. All you have to do is look at a crucifix to realize this. Remember that, as St. Paul said, God shows us His great love “because when as yet we were sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8 ).

We see symbols of His Passion in the Sacred Heart as well, both in the Cross which surmounts it and the thorns which surround it. The thorns symbolize Christ’s sorrow over all the ingratitude He’s been shown by mankind over His Passion. (Remember also that His Sacred Heart was pierced with a lance upon His death on the cross.)

And yet, we see triumph in this image as well. The cross is a symbol of Christ’s victory over sin and death. And what do we see all around Jesus’ Sacred Heart? Rays of light! Rays of light that in themselves suggest rays of love for fallen humanity, a love just waiting to be requited by our repentance of sins and trust in Him to see us through good times and bad!

(Incidentally, Our Blessed Mother had an image of our Lord’s Sacred Heart placed on the famous Miraculous Medal she inspired for people to receive graces and grow in Holiness.)

And speaking of repentance, one that comes straight from the heart, think of these lines from Psalm 51: “Have mercy on me, O God….wash away all my guilt…Create a clean heart in me, O God…a contrite heart and humbled heart you will not spurn.”

It is in humility that that we can come closest to Jesus. And then we can place our contrite, yet trusting hearts in the shelter of His Sacred Heart, joining them together as one!

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