Now Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that rooted and grounded in love you
may have the strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth, breadth
and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
These words of today's first reading from the epistle to the Ephesians about the love
of God for the soul, for all of us, the breath of God's love for us, is seen in the life
of St. Margaret Mary Alaco.
She was given many revelations on the sacred heart of Jesus and how much the sacred heart
of Jesus loves us.
From her earliest years, she was led by the Spirit of God to Jesus and to preserve her
innocence.
Even though she didn't fully understand the vow of chastity at seven, she says, she knew
that she wanted to give herself.
I became unwavering, and also regained equal rights that allowed me to meet with God through
theuku and to est ransom.
As her
father, she expressed her Kir SecretAlexa, locally calling herself Jupiterizingрос,
saying to herself, I're missing God.
What's left is all.
I know we're dying.
Listen to me.
I want to come back.
and even though she didn't exactly know what they meant
she knew the intent was to give herself entirely to God
which shows us how important it is for children
to preserve their innocence
and especially in the case of St. Margaret Mary
because she was going to be given great revelations
of the sacred heart of Jesus for our time
and especially for France in the 17th century.
The revelations that Jesus gave her
revealed the great love that the sacred heart of Jesus
has for all of us
and how much he is offended.
He told St. Margaret Mary
to consider his heart.
Jesus revealed to her these words
quote
Behold that heart
which notwithstanding the burning love
for Mary
and for the man
with which it is consumed and exhausted
meets with no other return
from the generality of Christians
than sacrilege, contempt, indifference and ingratitude.
So this great heart of Jesus
that we just read about
the length and breadth, the depth
the knowledge of God and the love that he has for all of us
is seen in the sacred heart of Jesus.
We've all seen the emblem.
The sacred heart of Jesus
burning with love
flames coming above it
and then encircled with the crown of thorns.
This was the sacred heart
that was revealed to St. Margaret Mary.
Hitherto the sacred heart of Jesus
had been revealed to St. Gertrude
as an object of great love.
But here, especially in these times
the 17th century
and thereon
it was revealed
to her
to make reparation
for the many sins
of the world.
Another revelation was given to St. Margaret Mary
in which she was told to have
the
King of France
consecrate France
to the sacred heart of Jesus
and put the sacred heart
the emblem of the sacred heart on his banners
as he went into battle
against the various nations.
Interesting
that was Louis XIV's
King Louis the 14th.
For some reason
it was never done
and a hundred years
after St. Margaret's
revelations to today
we see the French Revolution.
France
was
in throes of a
terrible bloody revolution
and the
king at that time
Louis XVI
did consecrate
France to the sacred heart of Jesus
but it was all gone.
It was already too late.
He himself was
martyred as it were
guillotined
like so many other people.
It was a terrible time
but the sacred heart of Jesus
had warned
the world
during the revelations of St. Margaret
that
reparation was needed.
Integral to the revelations of St. Margaret Mary
the most important
teach...
the revelation
concerning the first Fridays of the month.
We've practiced that over the years.
In the days
when I was young
all the school children
were brought to first Friday mass
and it was customary to
go to the mass on the first Friday
mainly because of the revelation to St. Margaret Mary.
A very very important revelation
and the words of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary.
St. Margaret Mary,
are and I quote,
I promise thee
in the excessive mercy of my heart
that it's all powerful love
will grant to all those
who go to communion
on the nine first Fridays of the month
the final grace of repentance.
They shall not die
in its disfavor
nor without receiving the sacraments.
My divine heart becoming their assured refuge
at the last moment.
My dear friends
that is a very powerful revelation.
Our Lord promises all those who do the nine first Fridays
receiving holy communion
in reparation to the sacred heart of Jesus.
The grace of final repentance.
Final repentance.
They shall not die in God's disfavor.
That means they will die with the
grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
I will not die in God's disfavor. That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
That means they will die with the grace of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit.
And to ensure that they will receive onceaphiggerate
the major sacraments of the church.
That means they will die in our Holy dole.
The final sacraments
Vai tu eterno di
Confession.
Sacrament to the sick.
And Holy Viaticum.
I don't know what more that
the good God the good Lord can do for us.
This should be shouted
from the housetops.
So when these days
when we see so many souls
as Our Lady said at Fatima.
Many souls will go to hell
because no one prays and sacrifices for them.
Souls have it in their own hands
if they accept this condition
from the whole Sacred Heart of Jesus
to go on the nine first Fridays,
Holy Mass and Communion
in reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Another aspect of that revelation,
but not a condition for the final repentance,
is the Holy Hour on the Thursday
before the first Friday.
Holy Hour of reparation.
Here we have in the chapel here, of course,
perpetual adoration.
So it would be nice if we had more people
come on the Thursday night
before the first Friday
to do a Holy Hour in reparation
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Our world is in a desperate,
desperate struggle, as you know.
And we need all the help we can get.
And here we have a tremendous promise
from the Divine Heart of Jesus
burning with love for us.
And what do we do?
We are indifferent,
ingratitude,
and sometimes even blasphemy.
So we need to make up reparation
and pray that many, many souls
would take advantage of this.
Wonderful privilege
of final repentance
at the deathbed.
They will have all the graces necessary
that they need to go to heaven.
My friends, it doesn't get any better than that.
So let us encourage people,
especially when they're young,
especially the school children,
to do this.
It's a wonderful practice.
And of course, it's a practice
that people,
People do, if they've started,
usually they continue it the rest of their lives
out of gratitude and reparation
for the sacred heart of Jesus.
We need to do reparation
because there is so much carelessness
and indifference in our world.
May the Lord bless you.
© transcript Emily Beynon