This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the rosary.

Welcome to our rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

We offer this Rosary for Troy Bettis, a young father dying of cancer,

and we also offer this

for his wife Kay and his children Bailey and Joel.

We also offer this rosary for Father Jim Shaughnessy.

Because Sunday was the feast of the Holy Family, I was not able to focus on the fact that December 27th is the anniversary of when Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alicoke in 1673, revealing

the love of his sacred heart for mankind. In her autobiography 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. Flames 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. In the Eucharist, Jesus offers his sacred heart, which is a burning furnace of love to transform us as fire transforms whatever it touches.

And the mass is an exchange of hearts.

At mass, the priest will invite you to lift up your heart to which we should respond by offering

our hearts to Jesus saying we lift them up to the Lord. Then Jesus gives his sacred heart to us in communion.

See, the Mass really is an exchange of hearts. The Eucharist really is the sacred heart of Jesus. But people

reject his sacred heart. They go to communion and receive him as if they were receiving a useless piece of bread.

Or worse, they don't go at all.

Jesus revealed to Margaret Mary that one of the greatest ways we can love him in return

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