Nine consecutive FIRST FRIDAYS IN REPARATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF
JESUS Our Lord appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alocoque (1647-1690), a
French nun in the Visitation Order, and gave her the special task to
spread devotion to His Most Sacred Heart at a time when religion was
growing cold in the hearts of mankind. He said to her: “Behold this
heart which, not withstanding the burning love for men with which it
is consumed and exhausted, meets with no other return from most
Christians than sacrilege, contempt, indifference and ingratitude,
even in the sacrament of my love [the Eucharist]. But what pierces my
heart most deeply is that I am subjected to these insults by persons
especially consecrated to my service.” Jesus asked for special
prayers and practices to make amends (REPARATION) for this great
neglect to the proper reverence owed to God. For those who did this
faithfully, he made what St. Margaret Mary referred to as the “Great
Promise” which was the last and greatest of the Twelve Promises of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus. “I promise you in the unfathomable
mercy of my heart that my omnipotent love will procure the grace of
final penitence for all those who receive communion on nine successive
FIRST FRIDAYS OF THE MONTH; they will not die in my disfavor [the
grace of final repentance], or without having received the sacraments,
since my divine heart will be their sure refuge in the last moments of
their life.” Read more here
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