Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - "The Final Effort of His Love"
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - "The Final Effort of His Love"

Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my Love
Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by Rev. Irenaneus Schoenherr, O.F.M (1879-1972)
God has always dealt with men in a way consonant with their nature--by drawing them to His Holy Will by promises of reward. It was so with His dealings with the chosen people under the Old Dispensation. It was the way of Christ in the New, promising even a hundredfold return for compliance with His desires. And so it is in the history of the revelation and propagation of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart.
"That men might more readily respond to that wonderful and overflowing desire of love," wrote Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Annum Sacrum (1899) on the Devotion, "Jesus, by the promise of rich rewards, called and drew all men to Him."
Saint Margaret Mary in her writings insists again and again on the ardent desire of Christ to pour out blessings with a royal generosity on those who would honor His Divine Heart and return Him love for love.