Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Mass Schedule

A unique form of devotion to the physical heart of Jesus is known as the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is the love He shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit for humanity. The Sacred Heart devotion developed in Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Church’s lessons for the Second Nocturn of the feast were based on passages from the published work “Vitis mystica,” which served as inspiration for the devotion. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries the devotion was practiced by different congregations such as Franciscans, Dominicans and Carthusians but remained an individual or private devotion.