The feast of St Margaret Mary Alacoque, which we celebrate today, Saturday October 16, reminds us of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It was on December 27, 1673, the Feast of St John the Evangelist, when this French nun of the Visitation Monastery in Paray-le-Monial, received this incomparable grace of seeing the Lord Jesus Himself. Here is the witness Sr Margaret Mary herself gave of this Divine experience in writing:
The Lord said to me, ‘My Divine Heart is so passionately in love with humanity that it can no longer contain within itself the flames of its ardent love. It must pour them out through [you], and manifest itself to them with its precious treasures, which contain all the graces which they need to be saved.