As you surely know, not least because it has been mentioned repeatedly in these pages, the bishops of the United States, in preparation of the celebration for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence have consecrated the entire nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
No doubt you also know, faithful readers of The Catholic Thing, that the image of the Sacred Heart was revealed by Jesus himself to a 17th-century French nun named Margaret Mary Alacoque. If you didn’t know this before, you probably learned it just yesterday from Msgr. Charles Fink’s wonderful reflection on how holy images, including the Sacred Heart, can captivate the imagination and so move us toward greater devotion.
What you may not know, but should know, is this: the major relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the Apostle of the Sacred Heart, are coming to our nation’s capital just in time for the Fourth of July. They will be available for public veneration at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, DC, from June 29th through July 4th.
I mention this for several reasons.
First, I mention this because I work at the Shrine and I would like very much for
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