The Vatican announced October 21 that Pope Francis will publish an encyclical on the Sacred Heart October 24 titled, "Dilexit ...

Because of Christ’s passion, the archbishop said, “love is not dead,” and Christians can have “hearts open to testify to hope ...

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was given the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in an apparition in France in 1673. From that ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart ... one God, . . . Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal ...

She heard Jesus tell her that he wanted to show his love for people by encouraging a special devotion to his Sacred Heart. Christ revealed ways to venerate his Sacred Heart and explained the ...