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This is a way to place our families under special protection and offer special devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

One of the most important ways we can put these devotions into practice in our lives is through consecration, particularly family consecration. The First Saturday devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary consists in receiving Holy Communion, praying the rosary, extra meditation for 15 minutes on one or more of the mysteries of the rosary, and going to Confession within eight days before or after. Many people practice the First Friday devotion, by which they receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months, specifically with the intention of honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in reparation for offenses against the Blessed Sacrament. We can also practice the First Friday and First Saturday devotions.

Catholic Brain even has a nice coloring page of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, found under the “printables” tab, then “coloring pages,” and then “Jesus.” Another way to keep them always in our minds is to place pictures of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart in our homes or classrooms. The first thing we can do is to go to Mass on the feast days. There are many ways we can commemorate these two hearts with our children, in June and throughout the year. Her heart, pierced by a sword as she watched her son die, opens wide for all of her children, those who belong to her Son. They remind us of the love Jesus has for each of us, shown in His death and the piercing of His Sacred Heart as well as Mary’s maternal love for us. The feasts of these two hearts are important for us. On MaPope John Paul II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The feast was extended to the universal Church by Pope Pius XII in 1944. John’s death, though, the devotion continued to spread, and in 1799, Pope Pius VI gave the first permission for a diocese to institute a feast for the Immaculate Heart. He even petitioned (unsuccessfully) for a feast in 1669.Īfter St. John in the 17th century who labored to spread the devotion throughout much of France. Private devotion to Mary’s heart can be found in writings dating to the late 13th century, but it was St. To trace the history of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we must return to our friend St. Margaret Mary, ∻ehold the Heart that has so loved men…instead of gratitude I receive from the greater part of mankind only ingratitude.” Immaculate Heart of Mary

It is no surprise, then, that the Heart of Jesus was pierced on the Cross, as He gave His life for us in love. In Jewish tradition, the heart was recognized as the organ that pumped life-giving blood throughout the body, but also, symbolically, as the seat of love. In 1856 Pope Pius IX extended the feast to the universal Church, and on JPope Leo XIII consecrated all mankind to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Clement XIII officially recognized and approved the devotion in 1765. Margaret Mary had many visions of Jesus, in which He asked her to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart. However, the saint most commonly associated with the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is Margaret Mary Alacoque, a seventeenth century nun and mystic. John Eudes deserves credit for establishing a feast for it, which was first celebrated on Augin the Grand Seminary in Rennes, France. By the eleventh century, devotion to the Heart of Jesus could be found in some monasteries. Justin Martyr described the pierced side of Christ as the source from which graces flow. Although the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus wasn’t extended to the universal Church until 1856, history of the devotion can be traced as early as the second century, when St.