SACRED HEART OF JESUS ​​– Church in Aragon

350 YEARS OF THEIR APPEARANCES

Letter from the Bishop of Tarazona, Mons. Vicente Rebollo, for Sunday, June 9, 2024

We’re within the month devoted to the Coronary heart of Jesus, whose feast we celebrated final Friday. This yr has particular relevance since we’re celebrating the Jubilee on the event of the 350th anniversary of his appearances to Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque.

The opening of this jubilee yr passed off on December 27, 2023 since one other December 27 within the yr 1673 appeared for the primary time leaving the next message “my divine coronary heart is so full of affection for males and for you specifically who, now not capable of include the calls of his ardent charity, feels compelled to unfold them via your mediation.”. It would conclude on June 27, 2025, solemnity of the Sacred Coronary heart of Jesus.

The motto for this jubilee yr is “give love for love”. It’s divided into three elements comparable to the three apparitions to Saint Margaret. Within the first we’re invited to introduce ourselves into the center stuffed with the love of Jesus via the Eucharist, we’re proposed as a way to advertise Eucharistic worship via adoration. There are a lot of parishes in our Diocese that dedicate time all through the week or month to this devotion, by finishing up the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hours, and Night time Adoration. Proceed like this, supply the devoted this chance of develop within the intimacy of God’s love via the adoration of Jesus Eucharist.

The second message to contemplate for this Jubilee corresponds to the second apparition that passed off originally of the yr 1674, Saint Margaret tells it to us “He made me see that his ardent need to be beloved by males and to avoid wasting them from the trail of perdition led him to type that plan of manifesting his Coronary heart to the world. AND those that sought to like him, he would enrich them with the abundance of the divine treasures of his coronary heart”. In gentle of this message we’re invited to ponder the redemptive worth of the providing of the center of Jesus, reparation and belief.

For that reason, a congress was held in Rome with the motto “restore the irreparable”. Reparation includes receiving the love of Jesus and loving Him in flip as a solution to compensate for the indifference and offenses that He suffers. Solely by receiving love from him, we will love. Pope Francis within the speech he gave to the contributors mentioned, “reparation to be Christian, to the touch the center of the offended and to not be a easy act of commutative Justice presupposes the next attitudes, admitting guilt and asking for forgiveness”.

Stunning phrases to fill this jubilee yr with content material open to forgiveness and love that all the time springs up once more in our hearts if we ask God for it and are open to reconciliation with our brother as a realization of this reparative love.

The third second will likely be celebrated subsequent yr with the motto “We consecrate ourselves to your Coronary heart”

We ask, via the mediation of Saint Margaret, that this jubilee open us absolutely to merciful love that springs from the Coronary heart of Jesus, might we love him with extra depth daily.

+Vicente Rebollo Mozos.
Bishop of Tarazona