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OUR LADY OF FATIMA

CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Two Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary

June 20, 2009

Yesterday I pondered some of Our Lord’s own words to His beloved St. Margaret Mary:

“See this Heart that has loved men so much and has spared itself nothing until it has exhausted itself and consumed itself in order to show them its love. I receive in return scarcely anything but ingratitude because of their irreverence and sacrileges, and because of the coldness and disdain they show towards Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what hurts Me still more is that it is hearts who are consecrated to Me who treat Me thus. This is why I ask you that on the First Friday after the octave of the Most Holy Sacrament a special feast be dedicated to the honour of My Heart by receiving Communion on that day and making reparation with some act of atonement…”

After I read these words, some other words surfaced in my memory about St. Margaret Mary that I had copied down, that I had read last year sometime, one of the readings from the Breviary:

To Jesus through Mary. St. Margaret Mary saw that the normal way, of reaching Jesus was through the Blessed Virgin.

“Our Lady will make her true children into perfect disciples of the Sacred Heart and will be their special protector to lead them to Him.” The holy nun saw the Heart of Jesus offering Himself in sacrifice to His Divine Father on the altar of His Mother's Heart. St. Margaret Mary's one ideal was to enthrone everywhere “the Divine Heart of Jesus living in Mary's heart:.” May we say with theological precision that the Heart of Jesus is Our Lady's? Suppose for a moment that Mary had refused to pronounce her fiat, as indeed she was quite free to do, would the Word of God have gone elsewhere for His human heart? If then, the glorious star of the Sacred Heart shines today in the firmament of the Church we owe It to Mary. Formed from her blood, warmed with her love, the Sacred Heart dwelt long months in Her Immaculate womb, a living Host in a most precious tabernacle; and after this long abode, after the joyful intimacy of Nazareth, after Calvary where she saw Her Son's Heart laid open by the lance, what wonder that Mary, even now that so many centuries have gone by, seems to us all fragrant with Jesus. At her feet we feel ourselves close indeed to the Sacred Heart.

Here, Jesus and Mary form the “Morning Star”, the title given to Our Lady in Her Litany. St. Louis Marie De Montfort states in his True Devotion To Mary, that it were easier to “separate the light from the sun than to separate Jesus from Mary”. Today in the traditional liturgical calendar, (prior to the institution of the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, by Pius XII in 1944, which he set on August 22^nd) was celebrated the feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary a perfect start for this humble column. Deo gratias !

s.m.mi.