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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, June 19th, 2020.

It is also the feast day of the sacred heart of Jesus.

Before we get into anything, we need to talk about this incredible feast day.

Today, more than anything, we are celebrating the love of God.

Perhaps you have seen an image of the sacred heart of Jesus before. The image is usually so,

Jesus Christ, but his heart is shown, and his heart is on fire. Fire is bursting out of the top of his heart and all around

his heart is the crown of thorns. Now this is an important image that Jesus himself brought to a saint

who brought to the rest of the world. This image conveys to us an important reality.

And that reality is this, that the most tremendous expression of God's love for us,

for you in particular, the most tremendous expression of that was Jesus Christ's death on a cross and all of

the suffering that went along with it, the crown of thorns, the scourging at the pillar, carrying the

cross, all of it. That all was the most tremendous expression of love for you. Now, we should always look at the suffering and death of

Jesus and understand just a little bit better every time we come to it, the depth of God's love for

us. Of course, we won't ever fully understand this until we are in heaven, but we keep coming

back and we keep looking at this heart, for it is the love of Jesus Christ that placed him

on the cross for us. Devotions to the sacred heart means not only that we acknowledge this

love for Jesus, but that we open ourselves up to this love.

And we are constantly trying to unite our heart with the love and heart of Jesus Christ,

reaching out to him with the absolute core of who we are.

When we talk about our heart, we oftentimes talk about the most basic part of us,

the deepest, most secret part of us, that that is where we are asking Jesus to enter with

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