First Friday April 1, 2022 

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

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

Pure Divine Love

How are we to understand the love that St. Margaret Marie Alacoque desired? A “pure divine love”? As we strive to follow Jesus in the footsteps of this great mystic who was infused by God’s grace, can we experience this “pure divine love” ourselves? In other words, as we deepen our knowledge of the privileged relationship that St. Mary Margaret had with Christ, and the graces she received, our own desire increases to share in this divine intimacy, this pure divine love. But how? St. Mary Margaret’s letters to Mother de Sumaise stress humiliations and suffering by which she is united with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Her own heart purified of worldly attachments including detachment from herself. We respond to pure divine love by building on our own particular vocation, while answering our call to sanctity. And so, our hearts increasingly open to pure Divine Love like springtime blossoms receiving the sun. 

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, open our hearts to pure Divine Love!

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