The Sacred Heart of Jesus Bled for Love of Us

Today in the Catholic Church is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It honors Christ’s infinite love for us, most perfectly illustrated in His Passion and Death, when a soldier pieced Christ’s physical heart with a lance.

Jesus told His apostles right before His Passion (Jn.15:13), “Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.” Jesus died for everyone, all sinners, but He was a little consoled in His immense suffering by the devotion of those who followed His commands and thus were His friends. Jesus expressed the greatest possible love by dying for us and our sins, and we should repay Him by doing everything possible to obey and love Him in return.