The Sacred Heart reveals the love of the Trinity. The divine love that brings about our redemption — the love of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit — overflowed into the human will of Christ and into his Sacred Heart. That love led him ...

The Litany of the Sacred Heart, composed of 33 invocations — one for each year of Jesus' earthly life — was formally approved and promulgated by Pope Leo XIII in 1899, the very same day he consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart. Since...

Jesus reminds us that purity of heart is not just about external behavior — it's about the orientation of our desires, the ordering of our love. When our hearts are preoccupied with lesser loves, disordered desires or inordinate attachments, we...

A central theme of the Sacred Heart devotion is reconciliation — not only with God, but with one another. The love that flows from Christ's pierced Heart restores not just our relationship with the Father (the vertical dimension), but also invi...

To be firm in heart is to be grounded in Christ, unshaken in faith, anchored in the truth. The early Church saw that St. Barnabas possessed this kind of spiritual stability. And why? Because his heart was marked by faith and the Holy Spirit. Th...

As St. Paul wrote, “The love of Christ impels us.” Love, by its very nature, cannot stay hidden. It is diffusive of itself, meaning it spreads, it radiates, it seeks to be shared. The Sacred Heart teaches us that real love demands mission.<...

Just as Eve was formed from the side of Adam, so too the Church is formed from the side of the new Adam — Christ himself. The Church, the Bride, is taken from his Heart. That means that our life in the Church, our sacramental grace and our very...

The Holy Spirit is the love of the Sacred Heart poured into the world. What Christ reveals in his pierced Heart is made present and powerful in our lives by the Spirit. The human heart of Jesus, aflame with divine charity, becomes the vessel th...

There's also a subtle spiritual danger in misunderstanding God's love. We might think that if God loves us all equally, shouldn't we all be given the same gifts? But that's not how divine love works. God's love is not equal — it's personal. It ...

Why Friday? Because Friday is the day of the Passion — the day Christ's Heart was pierced for love of us. When we receive the Eucharist, we touch that Heart. We come into contact with the living, beating love of Jesus present in the Blessed Sac...

Jesus says, "I wish that where I am they also may be with me." At first, that might sound like mere sentiment — something wistful, almost like a hope. But in reality, this is a declaration of divine will. Christ wills that we be with him, not o...

Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that "all people feel the interior impulse to love authentically." That desire — planted by God in every human heart —  is never fully extinguished. But it must be guided. He writes, "Truth is the light that gi...

That promise of rest and peace that the Sacred Heart of Christ offers us is not just poetic. It's personal. It's the very consolation that St. Augustine clung to when he wrote, "Our hearts are restless until they rest in you." It's the peace sh...

The Sacred Heart of Jesus isn’t just an artistic image or an emotional comfort. It’s a profound teaching about the mystery of the Incarnation. Jesus Christ is true God and true man. And that means he has a heart like ours. When we gaze upon the...

To help us kick off this month of devotion, I want to look back to one of the great champions of the Sacred Heart: Pope Leo XIII. Not our current Pope Leo XIV, but his great predecessor who, in 1899, consecrated the entire world to the Sacred H...

If we are rooted in Christ — if he is truly growing in us — then he will make his way into the world through our lives, just as he did through Mary. We may feel unworthy or insignificant, unsure of what difference we can make. But none of that ...

When Scripture contrasts "the world rejoicing" with the Christian's sorrow, it is not talking about fleeting feelings. Sadness and happiness belong to the passions; they rise and fall like the tide. Joy, in the biblical sense, is sturdier — bor...

Why does the date of the Ascension matter? Because the logic of the liturgy is a logic of love. The timetable of salvation is meant to form our hearts. Today, Christ our Head rises in glory; soon the Spirit will be poured out upon the Body. Hol...

Paul challenges us to do what he did: to look at the altars of today — the quests for meaning in science, self-help, art and activism — and proclaim the God who is "Lord of heaven and earth," who "does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human han...

The fears that grip us — fear of failure, of loneliness, of unworthiness — can be transformed when they meet the charity of Christ and when we show that same charity to one another. Rather than being an obstacle to grace, fear can become a door...

St. Philip once said, “The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of paradise.” These gifts — peace and joy — are signs that the Spirit is at work in us. But how do w...

In his masterwork “The City of God,” St. Augustine reflects on what this heavenly life will be like, writing “There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. This is what shall be in the end without end. For what other end do we pro...

Today's passage captures the incredible dynamism of the early Church. There’s a sense of movement, energy and purpose. The apostles and disciples are teaching, evangelizing, forming communities — and the Church is growing! People are encounteri...

The structure of the Church is a gift. It gives us confidence that the teaching we receive today is the same truth Christ entrusted to the apostles. We don’t have to figure everything out on our own. We’re not tossed about by every new voice or...

Inspired by the witness of St. Rita, I invite you to renew your own commitment to the rule of charity. Let love be your guide. Let unity, mercy and peace shape the way you live. And let us ask St. Rita to intercede for us, especially in those p...