Welcome to our Rosary meditation. Today I am blessed to be in a little village about an hour outside of Lyon where on December 27th, 1673, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoke revealing to

her his sacred heart.

This is what she writes in her biography.

While I was praying before the Eucharist,

Jesus presented himself to me all resplendent with glory,

his five wounds shining like so many sons, flames issued from every part of his sacred humanity, especially from his heart, which

resembled an open furnace and disclosed to me his most loving heart, which was the living source of these flames.

It was then that he made known to me the indescribable and excessive love he has for all people, most

of whom he receives only ingratitude and contempt. My divine heart, he told me, is so passionately fond of the human race that

it cannot keep back the pent- flames of its burning charity any longer.

They must burst out through you and reveal my heart to the world,

so as to enrich mankind with my precious treasures. I am letting

you see them now, and they include all the graces of holiness, needed to snatch men from the very brink of hell.

Next, he asked for my heart.

I begged him to take it.

He did and placed it in his own divine heart. He let me see it there,

a tiny atom being completely burned up in that fiery furnace,

then lifting it out, now a little heart-shaped flame.

He put it back where he had found it.

There, my well beloved. He put it back where he had found it.

There, my well beloved, I heard him saying.

That's a precious proof of my love for you.

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