{"id":1779,"date":"2018-05-22T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:52","slug":"act-of-consecration-to-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Act of Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June is the month dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Find the Prayer of Consecration here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>St\u00a0Margaret Mary Alacoque<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1781 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Margaret-Mary-Alacoque-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Margaret-Mary-Alacoque-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Margaret-Mary-Alacoque-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Margaret-Mary-Alacoque-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Margaret-Mary-Alacoque.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She was a French Visitation nun and mystic, who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.\u00a0She worked to prove the genuineness of her vocation and her <strong>visions of Jesus and Mary<\/strong> relating to the Sacred Heart. She was initially rebuffed by her mother superior and was unable to convince theologians of the validity of her visions. A noted exception was Jesuit Saint Claude de la Colombi\u00e8re, who supported her.<\/p>\n<p>The devotion to the\u00a0<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Sacred Heart was officially recognized 75 years after her death.<\/span><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In his encyclical <strong><i>Miserentissimus Redemptor<\/i><\/strong>, Pope Pius XI stated that Jesus Christ had &#8220;manifested Himself&#8221; to Saint Margaret and referred to the conversation between Jesus and Saint Margaret several times.<\/p>\n<p>For a copy of St Margaret Mary Alacoque&#8217;s <strong>Act of Consecration<\/strong>, click the link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Act-of-Consecration-to-the-Most-Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus.docx\">Act of Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1777 aligncenter\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&amp;quot; segoe ui&amp;quot;,roboto,oxygen-sans,ubuntu,cantarell,&amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 130.72px; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 327px; margin-right: 327px; max-width: 826px; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sacred-Heart-detail-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sacred-Heart-detail-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sacred-Heart-detail.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is the month dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. 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