is an enduring love that has existed since before creation and will last throughout all eternity. Despite our failings, God has never stopped loving His people. He is merciful and forgiving and continues to love us without measure as we strive to love Him above all things.

In His Most Sacred Heart we find this love pierced for our offenses and ingratitudes. Jesus said to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, “Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing even exhausting and consuming itself in testimony of its love.”

We practice this devotion with  no other aim than to imitate Christ’s virtues and make His sentiments, desires, and supernatural charity our own. Jesus Himself presented to us His Heart as an example and said, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart” (Matthew 11:29).