This traditional devotion will be held on the First Fridays of each month and will include:
- 11:30 am – Novena Prayers
- 12:00 pm – Mass
- 20 Hour Adoration: 12:30 Friday afternoon until 9:00 am Saturday morning
Please join us for this wonderful time of prayer and devotion.
We will have no congregational singing at this time however.
Please note that we require that at least two people accompany the Blessed Sacrament at all times. Please take a moment to sign up on the sheets in the narthex if you plan to attend to help us plan ahead.
Origin and History
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.”
- I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.
- I will establish peace in their homes.
- I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
- I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death.
- I will bestow abundant blessings upon all their undertakings.
- Sinners will find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
- Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.
- Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
- I will bless every place in which an image of My Heart is exposed and honored.
- I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
- Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart.
- 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.
Are the Promises Safe to Believe in?
- They have been approved and cited by the Church.
- They have been fulfilled many times in the life of all kinds of people – the laity and religious.
- Fr. Karl Rahner – “Taken in their entirety, these promises affirm and offer no more than Our Lord Himself promise in the Gospel to absolute Faith. What is new in these promises therefore not their content, but the circumstances of their fulfillment, in fact, that what has already been promised in substance in the Gospels is now attached precisely to devotion to the Sacred Heart.”