The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a heart illuminated to bursting point with the most powerful force in the universe and beyond - Love. The Sacred Heart has existed from before the beginning of time, throughout it and beyond it, into eternity. Consider taking all the nuclear bombs, missiles and warheads in the world, filling them with love, and exploding them at the one time simultaneously. It would not even come near the amount of love that the Sacred Heart has for human souls. It is the source of Jesus' love for us, (as well as the love our Blessed Mother has for us through her Immaculate Heart), for as it comes from the heart it comes from the deepest recesses of soul and spirit. Yet the task of unconditional love for all humanity is made all the more inspiring and beautiful considering that most human beings do not even acknowledge the love from His Sacred Heart, and some reject it, either through ignorance or sinfulness. Like loving a child who spits into your face. Would Jesus ever stop loving? No, for he is Love Itself. If a soul consecrates itself to the Sacred Heart, they can be assured help in times of need, for Jesus cannot help but shower graces upon souls entrusted to him in this way. He cannot refuse great graces to those who seek solace, refuge and assistance in his Sacred Heart. Beyond the glory of a million exploding sunsets, the love contained in the Sacred Heart is a love that we mere humans will never understand. But He does give us a small taste of that love, a power which can almost lift a soul off its feet. We pray, O Lord, that more and more, especially beloved Christians Lord, may acknowledge and praise your Sacred Heart for ever and ever. We pray, Lord that all our actions be pleasing to you, and all we do today we do for the glory of your Love contained in Your Sacred Heart, O Jesus. May Your Heart be praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified for ever and ever, throughout eternity, Amen. Seán
I will testify to the power and depth of this consecration. Many years ago, our parish priest celebrated an Enthronement Mass in our home where my family was consecrated to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts and their images were placed on the wall above our family altar. This is where our family devotions occur and where Mary's Litanies are recited. Such concrete acts express what must be an interior surrender, yet Our Lord is pleased when visitors to our home witness the outward expressions of our love. The protection and grace provided by the Consecration was key to securing the two vocations of my sons, my loving and stable marriage to Geralyn, and teenagers who love the Lord. As the Psalmist says: 91:1-2 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust." Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
I have a certain fascination with the primordial symbolic role that the heart occupies in Sacred Scripture and in the fundamental devotions throughout the history of the Church, such as those dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I feel as though God is highlighting this organ of the human body above all others, giving it a fundamental role as the starting point of our salvation when united with God's grace. The poetic language of Psalm 50 presents the contrite and humbled heart as a sacrifice truly pleasing to God. However, we also see another model of sacrifice: that of the suffering heart which, in an act of self-renunciation, endures all pain in silence out of love for God and for humanity. We see the supreme representation of this in Our Lady at the foot of the Cross, renouncing her rights as a mother over her own Son and allowing Him to give Himself up for us, for our salvation and for the fulfillment of God's plan. I believe that this is why devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has been placed alongside devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout the history of the Church. This is not about removing Christ from the center in order to place Mary on equal footing with Him with regard to His divine nature and His redemptive office. Rather, it is about highlighting the model of the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God as a light for our journey. It is the model of a heart that endures suffering united with Christ and out of love for Him. Just as martyrdom offers us an ultimate model of witness to the faith without overshadowing the centrality of Christ on the Cross, Mary's suffering heart constitutes a supreme example of loving self-giving for us, without ever placing itself above Christ, our Savior. On the contrary, it highlights Mary's interior dimension. Although she did not undergo martyrdom by the shedding of blood, she lived what may traditionally be described as a white martyrdom, becoming a model for many, especially in times when persecution against the Church does not manifest itself so explicitly before the eyes of the world.
I was just listening to a guy from the Fatima Centre saying that we cannot have Devotion to the Sacred Heart without Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That the two Devotions go together like left and right. Some people say this Devotion to the Immaculate Heart started in 1917 in Fatima ,although we could trace it back further to the 17th century and St John Eudes. Although I guess for 99% of Catholics when we speak of the Immaculate Heart we think of Fatima, not least because of the Fatima Statue. The heart in prayer and the spiritual life is such a mystery. There have been several saints who said in prayer that their hearts were pierced. Later after they died Doctors looked at their hearts and they were indeed pierced. So it is not just a symbol love can indeed affect our hearts physically. Even in a human sense we talk of the pangs of love. That love can cause the heart to hurt and we speak even of a broken heart. In prayer St Teresa of Avila speaks of darts of love and even of the heart being pierced by a real spear of love (Transverbation). Numerous saints have spoken of this. So the heart seems to be actually physically connected to love. A kind of mystical love machine. I think many, many people who have walked the path of prayer can testify to this. How the heart seems to catch fire and burn to actually be pierced and wound by love. This is such a Catholic thing. I don; think I have ever heard Orthodox or Protestant Mystics write of such things. Another thing about the Sacred Heart is that they are wounded. Love comes at a price. Loves costs. In order for the flames of the furnace of love in the furnace of the heart to be stoked the thorns of wood must be kindled. I think the one thing that really surprises and surprised me about all this is the physical, supernatural effect. Modern man does not easily accept the supernatural and this of the hearts is very,very supernatural. The fact that the heart can be physically touched is kind of mind blowing to modern man. I think the best way we can follow such devotions is to relate it to ourselves. By seeing the Twin Hearts of Jesus and Mary we can the more easily relate to our own.
Interestingly, on this subject there is a footnote in the book In Sinu Jesu: Although not customary in English, the expression "the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary" was popularised by St. John Eudes (November 14, 1601 - August 19, 1680) and express the truth that Our Lady's heart, just like her Son's, is a temple of the Holy Spirit, a consecrated place set apart for God alone. The traditional Roman Martyrology (1956 ed.) describes St. John Eudes on August 19 as "the promoter of the liturgical cult of the Most Sacred Hearts of Christ and His Mother." This footnote refers to a passage in In Sinu Jesu where Jesus says the following to the heart of a monk, who has just offered a number of souls to His open Heart: "I bless them all and My Immaculate Mother blesses them. We give to each one according to his desire and his readiness to receive the graces made ready for him in our Sacred Hearts." I can only imagine that Cardinal Fernandez would frown upon this. It would not be good for ecumenical efforts with our Protestant brothers and sisters. However, it is part of the tradition of the Catholic Church. Personally, I always refer to the "Immaculate Heart of Mary" but I keep in mind that such may be a deprecation of sorts. "Oh Jesus living in Mary, come and live in Thy servants."
I think one of the main reasons put forward to have the New Mass was for False Ecumenical Reasons. It was supposed that if we made the Mass more Protestant and so Protestants would join us. Well we know how that went . Not only did Protestants not join us we had an immediate surge of Catholic Priests leaving the Priesthood. It was a deluge really. They say Pope Paul VI used to sit crying when he signed the Dispensations released men from the priesthood. Apparently some 70,000 to 100,000 did so: https://christianity.stackexchange....-priests-left-the-priesthood-after-vatican-ii I remember my father and mother who were married for over 50years and had ten children together got angry at this. They said they took solemn marriage vows which the Church would not release them from but here were all these priests and nuns being released from their solemn vows without a problem. For instance in the USA alone there were some 180,000 nuns in the USA in 1965 and by the mid 1970's their were 50,000. In 1959 about 30,000 Catholic lay people dropped out and by the late 1960's this had risen to 235,000 a year. If the Spirit of Vatican 2 did not cause this I would love to know what did. With the New Church of Synod on Synodality we can see and even more accelerated effect on somewhere like Germany: Only 6.8 % of Germans attend Sunday Mass. 1.13 million Germans left the Church in 2025. I think the only conclusion we can take is that the Church is effectively committing suicide, it is killing itself.
Paul VI called it auto destruction. These interior and exterior forces are indeed trying to kill the Church. But the joke's on them. She will rise glorious like her Bridegroom. The tragedy is the souls who have lost their way--lay and cleric.
The thing about Devotion to the Two Hearts is that it is profoundly Mystical and Supernatural. The whole thrust of the Spirit of Vatican 2 and the Synod and Synodality is that they are profoundly Protestant in thrust and hence lead to the death of the Mystical and Supernatural and along with this, eventually the death of Faith itself. For lets face it with the death of the supernatural and mystical what is the point of Faith itself? If you look at someone like Mother Angelica her real appeal was to touch peoples hearts, to the humble little ones. Satan on the other hand appeals to peoples heads, to pride. I think Mother Angelica reached a conversion moment in all this when Pope St John Paul was visiting the USA and had her blinkers ripped off. It was when they had a women act as Jesus in an event the Pope attended. After that she even changed back to the old Religious Habit. I think it was the same with nearly us all we were fooled. Just as most Catholics are being fooled with the New False Church they are building. But Devotion to the two hearts is a great remedy to this. I have just recently started saying the morning prayers I used to say as a child and I have to say they are a great eye opener. 'Heart of Jesus I adore thee, Heart of Mary I implore thee, Heart of Joseph , pure and Just , In these three Hearts I place my trust. Amen' Amazing it just came back to me this morning this prayer. I had not said it since I was a child and my mother taught me it. How did I forget?
Sigh a memory of long ago came back to me just now of long ago when my Mother used to go about doing the housework singing, 'Sweet Heart of Jesus' and I sang along with her as a little Child. I believe she taught me more by this than all the clever Catholic books I ever read. My parents saw through all the bad changes in the Church . Something I never did. I was totally fooled by them all. Tears spring to my eyes as I recall their simple firm Faith. Another great favourite of hers was . 'Oh Come to throne of grace'. They loved Fatima. All Catholics did back then. Is it any wonder I cry looking at the False Church now? All Catholics should cry, rivers of tears. A False Church being erected in Rome before our very eyes. The Fear of the Ages.
What a bitter Chalice we are Forced now to Drink on Account of Our Many Sins. The very people we had most cause to Trust, our Spiritual Fathers, turn Judas and betray us with Masonic Zeal to the Spirit of the World.
I grew up in a culture saturated with piety. Devotions to the Sacred Heart . The 9 first Fridays. Praying for the souls in purgatory. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament. Daily Mass when possible. And the wonderful statues of saints. Saint Joseph of course and St Therese and St Anthony and the Infant of Prague. How i loved the statue of the Infant of Prague. And beautiful embroidered satin curtains over the tabernacle. The statue of Our Lady crushing the serpent. It was just a local parish. Nothing fancy and yet it had the aura of mystery and sacredness. I could weep to think what we have lost. .
I was crying there now. Perhaps that is the cost of waking up. Well I am glad at least my parents are not alive to see it all. What would they have said? I suppose they would shed bitter tears as I do. May God forgive and save us.
Yes. Punishment for our sins. I often think of my own part in all this--nailing Jesus Christ to the Cross. And yet He forgave me. As He forgives all who come to Him with a sincere heart. But the punishment on this wicked world is baked in i am afraid. My prayers now are for souls to be saved. My own dear ones and every other soul. Nothing else matters. God bless the priests and bishops who see this and speak of it.
I was just listening to a Mystic this morning who said Rome will be the very first to burn. A soon as I heard her say this I knew it was true. Rome will indeed be the very first to burn. Bye, bye Vatican.
If Rome falls, it will inflame messianic expectations among Jews throughout the world because, in Jewish prophetic symbolism, the city and the vast empire it once headed correspond to the ancient biblical kingdom of Edom. Incidentally, the word Edom, in its Hebrew etymology, means "red", precisely because of the red sandstone formations that covered its territory, which, in a certain sense, recalls Revelation 17. Jerusalem fell because of the apostasy of the Jews, not because of the Christians. In Rome's case, however, the sin of apostasy within the Church could be the cause of its downfall and, consequently, of the downfall of the entire world. As I said in another thread, I believe that a possible decline of the United States on the global stage could elevate Europe to the status of a kind of United Federation. I think that the synodal religion may possibly move in that direction, and that this is why God will raise up Russia as a scourge. Imagine a unified European state power standing in opposition to a divided Church, as if it were composed of several independent states. True Catholics would go into the catacombs, just as they did during the time of the Roman persecutions, and only a global divine intervention could save us.
By the way, the city that served as Edom’s administrative center was called Bozrah, which in Hebrew means "sheepfold" or "sheep enclosure". To me, this seems to point to an almost obvious connection with the city of Rome.
Another city that served as a fortress of great strategic and military importance to Edom was Sela, better known today as Petra, which literally means Stone or Rock,something that seems to point to another obvious connection with Rome.
I think then three Persecutions. One from Islam . One from Russia. And one from the Satanic Globalist Elite and the False Church, I think this last may already be starting in Canada. This maybe the worst of all. I wonder if Canada is a test ground? The Bishops there are weak as water.
It is worth adding that this entire symbolism of Edom as Rome, so deeply rooted in Jewish thought, indirectly points to the Roman Church as the true New Israel. This becomes particularly significant when we carefully consider this remarkable prophecy from the book of Isaiah: Isaiah 63:1 Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save." For any Jew, it would make sense for the Messiah to come from Jerusalem. If the writings of the Old Testament merely confirmed this expectation, that would, to some extent, amount to saying that they would not need to expect the Messiah to come from outside their own ethnic and regional sphere. However, this prophecy, when understood in its intertestamental context, points to the Messiah coming from a kingdom hostile to Israel, a kingdom whose continuation the Jews themselves, in a certain sense, see in the Roman Empire. Christ appears clothed in red, His garments stained with His own blood, shed during His sorrowful Passion. However, the meaning of Isaiah's prophecy also takes on new significance in the sacrament of the Eucharist: the Body and Blood of the Lord.
