Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary Prayer Group gathers at the Church Cry room every
First Friday from 7 pm -7:30 pm.
NEXT MEETING DATE: FIRST FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2023
"They shall look on Him whom they have pierced” (John: 19:37).
Membership: Open to all
Day and Time: First Friday of every month from 7 pm-7:30 pm
Place: St. Leo Catholic Church – Cry Room
Contact Person (Assistant): Nkechi Amadife of The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (859) 879-9433
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is “devotion” to the person of Jesus Christ symbolized by His Heart as the Lord who loves us. Jesus desired and asked for devotion to His Sacred Heart and that we return love for love. The Catholic Church approved and recommended the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
In the 1673-1675 culmination of the apparitions of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque, a humble French Nun of the order of the visitation of our Lady, Jesus showing His Sacred Heart to her said, “Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love, and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what I feel most keenly is that it is the hearts which consecrated to Me, that treat Me thus … “
Therefore, Jesus asked for special devotion to His Sacred Heart, including: