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Why the Name "Sacred Heart"?

Devotion to the Sacred Heart (also known as Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) is one of the most widely practiced and well-known devotions in modern Church history, taking Jesus' physical heart as the representation of his divine love for humanity and emphasizing the unmitigated love, compassion, and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards all of humanity.


The Feast of the Sacred Heart has been in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar since 1856, but many prayers and practices with Jesus' Sacred Heart as the explicit focal point have existed in various forms since even the earliest centuries of the Christian Church. The feast is always celebrated 19 days after Pentecost, falling somewhere in late spring or early summer. As Pentecost is always celebrated on Sunday, the Feast of the Sacred Heart always falls on a Friday.

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"Take away, O my Jesus, the blindness of my heart, that I may know Thee; take away the hardness of my heart, that I may fear Thee; take away the coldness of my heart, that I may resist everything that is contrary to Thy will; take away its heavy, earthly sluggishness and selfishness, that I may be capable of heroic sacrifice for Thy glory, and for the souls whom Thou has redeemed with Thy own most precious blood." Amen