This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. So welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I am blessed to be in Lacing this evening at Our Lady of Lords in front of a beautiful grotto to our Lady of Lords gathered with a whole bunch of great people and yes we are having good conversation

we're going to pray the rosy we're going to have some food right afterward so

too bad for all you Johnson County people who didn't make the trek down this evening,

but I'm glad that I did.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for,

especially for Steve White to receive a new heart,

for the healing of Olivia Caneli,

and for all those people that you've promised to pray for.

Now on December 27th, 1673, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alicoke revealing to her his sacred heart.

So now we're right in between a very important time. We just had the feast of Corpus Christi and

we're moving toward the Feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday. So in these days in between, we should be doing everything we can to grow in love

for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So our meditations this whole week are going to be focused on the sacred heart.

St. Margaret Mary Alicoke, she explains what happened when Jesus appeared to her revealing his sacred heart.

She writes, 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 chest,

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 from whom he receives only in gratitude

and contempt.

My divine heart, he told me, is so passionately fond of the human race that it cannot

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