St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the first to promulgate this devotion. Our Lord appeared to her on Dec. 27, 1673.

It is Dec. 27, 1673, and in the weeks and months that followed, Margaret Mary Alacoque, V.H.M., would see visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in her convent chapel many times.

From the outset, the image had a political edge. During the French Revolution it was adopted as a royalist symbol ...

The union of Jesus’ Sacred Heart and Mary’s Immaculate Heart is more than poetic — it’s a spiritual key to understanding God’s love and our response to it.

The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 9, 2023, at the Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minn., for Sister Annette ...