Sacred Heart of Jesus / Immaculate Heart of Mary

Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (6/12) / Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (6/13)

Sacred Heart of Jesus

When we contemplate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, our hearts change.  We want to have his heart.  We want to be changed.  We want to love with his heart.  It’s something real.  Something we can’t teach so much as show.  The most effective preacher radiates love from his heart.  And we then better understand our thirst for him and even more remarkably, his thirst for us.  Devotion to the heart of Jesus is especially directed to the "divine heart" as overflowing with love for humanity.

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary refers to the view of the interior life of Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and above all, her virginal love for God, her maternal love for her son Jesus Christ, and her motherly and compassionate love for all mankind.  In the devotion to Mary, however, the attraction is the love of her heart for Jesus and for God.

Happy the soul which maintains a loving devotion to both.

One Sacred Heart and One Immaculate Heart

The month of June we celebrate two feasts of importance in our relationship with Our Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother.   We honor the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and we recognize the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“The main difference between the devotions to the hearts of Jesus and Mary is that the one concerned with Jesus emphasizes his divine heart as being full of love for mankind, but with this love for the most part being ignored or rejected, while the devotion to Mary’s heart is essentially concerned with the love that her heart has for Jesus, for God.  It is not an end in itself, the love of her heart is meant to be a model for the way we should love God.  The fact that her heart is immaculate, that is sinless, means that she is the only fully human person who is able to really love God in the way that he should be loved.

Honoring Mary’s Immaculate Heart is really just another way of honoring Mary as the person who was chosen to be the Mother of God, recognizing her extraordinary holiness and the immense love she bestowed on Jesus as his mother, the person who was called to share in and co-operate in his redemptive suffering.” (Catholic News Agency Jun ’24)

We know that the Blessed Mother is always in the presence of her Divine Son; and that her Divine Son is really and truly present in our Tabernacles and Monstrances. So if you want quality time with Our Blessed Mother visit her son.

www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi

click on “Weekly Commitment”

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

 What’s Love Got To Do With It?

“God is love” (1 Jn 4:8).  Not just one who loves, but God is complete love itself.  Complete love itself includes 1) a lover, 2) a beloved, and 3) the act of love that flows between the lover and the beloved.  In God, these are 1) the Father, 2) the Son, and 3) the Holy Spirit, one God in three divine Persons, who make up complete love.  This is the doctrine of the Trinity, the tri-unity of God.  There is only one God, not three, but this one God is the three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  They are not three parts of God; all three are God totally. God can’t be divided into parts.”  (“Because God Is Real” - Peter J Kreeft p21) 

Because God cannot be divided we find the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit together in our Adoration Chapel at all times.  God gives us the opportunity to visit the chapel and pray to one or all three at the same time.  What a Divine Gift … show your thankfulness by going to the chapel to spend some time in his priceless presence.

                                           Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Jesus and Our Mother Always Ready To Help

 Calling on Jesus and Mary for Help!

“O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore you profoundly.  I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, scarileges and indifferences by which he is offended.  By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners”.    (The Angel of Peace at Fatima, third apparition)

The prayer of quiet is just ‘resting’ in the Lord’s presence, and is a good start to asking for the conversion of sinners.  See   
                         you in the chapel.

                                                www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi

What is the Point of Eucharistic Adoration?

If you would like information on the meaning of Eucharistic Adoration click on the link below that will take you to a four and half minute YouTube presentation by Fr John Bartunek and Dan Burke that addresses 'What is Eucharistic Adoration and Why is it Important'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fy7nrWGy8w

To participate in Eucharistic Adoration at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parrish in Grand Rapids follow this link:

www.adorationpro.org/ihmmi

Adoration resources are available on the IHM Adoration Blog:

https://ihmadoration.blogspot.com