“Behold this Heart (Sacred Heart of Jesus), which has loved so much but has received nothing but coldness, indifference, and ingratitude in return.”  - Jesus' voice to St Margaret Mary

We live in a world that information is never lacking in access. Our minds are full.  

Our attention is the most valuable commodity that is desired. Our eyes are occupied.  

Yet we are found endlessly seeking for our hearts to be full as the world offers us food that lacks fulfillment. But Our Lord and our Blessed Mother are seeking our hearts to love as they love. You and I are loved. We are called to love as He loves us. 

As we seek to dive into the depths of an eternal dialogue between the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart, may our hearts be transformed to be like Our Lord's and Our Lady's.

The Lord, in His mercy and love, seeks to liberate each one of us from chains that bind us in our day-to-day lives, and indeed it is only the Lord who can truly liberate us from whatever keeps us down in this life.

Welcoming Jesus into your home as King, Savior, and Friend, through the enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a conscious decision to place Jesus at the center of your lives and home. This devotion is unique because it has been spoken about in papal letters and is centered on the love of Jesus Christ.

Coming to a neighborhood near you - Fr. Brian's Homily on Feast of the Holy Family (12/29)

Along with a commitment to living the 5 stones by households in our community we will be organizing neighborhood gatherings for communal Enthronement's of the Sacred Heart. Launching on the Feast of the Holy Family we are building momentum in this movement for hearts to be transformed by the grace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  

The Enthronement to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a ceremony where Jesus is invited into your home and is given authority over your family/household. 

"Wherever the Image of My Sacred Heart is publicly expose and honored, I will pour out graces of sanctification and salvation; I will touch unfeeling hearts, I will reunite divided families, I will help them in all their needs." (Jesus promised to St Margaret Mary)

Steps to Enthronement: 

1. Choose a date: Identify a Neighborhood Enthronement Ceremony and attend Mass together on that day or at least the Sunday before. 
2. Select a Sacred Heart Image:  
3. Establish a Prominent Place: prepare a place in your home where you will display the image. Consider placing pictures of family near the image. 
4. Prepare your Hearts: Three days prior to the enthronement, recite the prayers of preparation together as a household.
5. Enthronement Day: Gather together as a neighborhood/household community and place Jesus on the throne of authority in your home. 

The center of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Enthronement of an image of the Sacred Heart in the home. The Enthroned image of the Sacred Heart, which may be a picture or a statue, expresses Christ’s true Kingship, daily reminding each member of the family to follow in His royal way by making reparation for sins committed and by striving to serve God and neighbor more lovingly.  

By the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, we link the tabernacle of our parish church to our home, inviting Our Lord to be our constant and most intimate Companion.  The Enthronement is a way of life. It means that Christ is King of our hearts, and that we desire Him to be present with us always. By the Enthronement, we signify our desire to make our hearts and our homes holy, to sanctify our lives in every aspect.

The Essential Elements of Devotion to the Sacred Heart include: 

• Worship of Jesus as the Sacred Heart  
• Belief in the merciful love of Jesus 
• Reparation for offenses against Jesus, particularly on First Friday 
• Special love and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. 

Requests of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary: 

• Acknowledge Jesus as your King 
• Place an image of the Sacred Heart in your place of dwelling 
• Consecrate your hearts to the Sacred Heart of Jesus 
• Make reparation to Jesus for indifference and hostility to Him 
• Live a life of love and confidence in Him 
• Share this devotion with others 
• Increase devotion to the Holy Eucharist 
• Attend Mass on the First Friday of the month 

Raymond Cardinal Burke on enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the home:
The center of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Enthronement of the image of the Sacred Heart in the home. By the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, we link the tabernacle of our parish church to our home, inviting our Lord to be our constant and most intimate companion. The Enthronement is a way of life. It means that Christ is King of our hearts and we desire Him to be present with us always. In other words, by the Enthronement, we signify our desire to make our hearts and our homes holy, to sanctify our lives in every aspect. 

Inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical released in October of 2024, Dilexit nos (He Loved Us) we will be setting up opportunities for homes to Enthrone the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to live daily under the promises given to St. Margaret Mary to those who commit to consoling the heart of Jesus. 

“I ask our Lord Jesus Christ to grant that His Sacred Heart may continue to pour forth the streams of living water that can heal the hurt we have caused, strengthen our ability to love and serve others, and inspire us to journey together towards a just, solidary and fraternal world. Until that day when we will rejoice in celebrating together the banquet of the heavenly kingdom in the presence of the risen Lord, who harmonizes all our differences in the light that radiates perpetually from his open heart. May he be blessed forever” (Dilexit nos, 220). 

Our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to St. Margaret Mary between 1673-1675. Among the words spoken to her, she heard Jesus make 12 promises to those who would respond to the pleading of His Heart and make an effort to return His love.

St. Margaret Mary once said, “I do not know of any other exercise in the spiritual life that is more calculated to raise a soul in a short amount of time to the height of perfection and to make it taste the true sweetness to be found in the service of Jesus Christ.”

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The Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary

(1) "I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.

(2) I will establish peace in their homes.

(3) I will comfort them in all their afflictions.

(4) I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death.

(5) I will bestow abundant blessings upon all their undertakings.

(6) Sinners will find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.

(7) Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.

(8) Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.

(9) I will bless every place in which an image of my Heart is exposed and honored.

(10) I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.

(11) Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in my Heart.

(12) I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment."

Keep your devotion to the Sacred Heart strong! Check out the nine First Fridays Devotion to do with your family. This is an easy way to renew your devotion to the Sacred Heart each month.

On the anniversary of the enthronement, you can have a little celebration to remember and reconsecrate your home. It would be especially great to invite the priest who enrolled your home to participate in the annual celebration!

The month of June is always dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This June marks the 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial. 

June 27th, 2025 is the Solemnity of the feast of the Sacred Heart.