First Friday March 4, 2022 

Guards of Honor 1st Friday / March 2022 Fr. David Bellusci, OP 

We pray for all the intentions of our Guards of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 

Suffering with the Sacred Heart

In writing to Mother de Sumaise at Moulin in 1680, St. Margaret Mary’s letter highlights the significance of loving God in this life. St. Margaret Mary understood to be united with Jesus for all of Eternity starts in this life we live. God provides us with this opportunity to love Him by the “precious treasure of His cross.” We can experience our life as an “exile” where the only pleasure is really to “love God and suffer for this love.” St. Margaret Mary recognises the relationship between the Cross that is given to us and “hope in His mercy.” St. Margaret Mary identifies the Heart of Jesus Christ with the Heart of Mercy. We are one with this Heart of Jesus when we carry our Cross. The Heart of Jesus is where we find our pleasure, our delight, our joy. What is this joy?  St. Margaret Mary tells us: “Suffering with Jesus Christ.”

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, let us delight in taking our Cross suffering with you!

Prayer to Renew Our Fidelity and Devotion 

Divine Jesus, my Saviour and my King, with all my heart I  renew the promise which I have made to love, to glorify and  to console Your adorable Heart as a member of the Guard  of Honor. Grant O good Master, to make me daily more  loving, more devoted and more faithful. I ask this same  grace for all the Associates through the most sweet Heart of  Your Mother. AMEN