A message from the Salesian Studies Office:

This Friday, October 4, Visitation School offers the opportunity for Eucharistic Adoration in the Visitation Chapel from 8 am to 3 p.m. Mass, celebrated with our chaplain, Father Stefano Colombo, is at 11:40 a.m. 

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is revealed in Saint John’s Gospel: John rests his head upon the heart of Jesus at the Last Supper, both to receive Christ’s love and to love Him in return. It was on the Feast of Saint John, December 27, 1673 when Jesus first revealed himself to Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation sister in Paray-le-Monial, France. Jesus asked Margaret Mary to help make His love known. As a Visitandine, Margaret Mary’s practices of the little virtues, specifically humility, charity and patience, helped her as she endured much suffering in her life. 

Margaret Mary’s devotion to the Sacred Heart instilled a greater observance of Eucharistic Adoration and First Friday Mass worldwide. 

Saint Francis de Sales wrote about the connection to the Sacred Heart of Jesus when describing his vision of the coat of arms for the new Visitation Order:

I thought we ought to take as our arms, a heart pierced by two arrows, enclosed in a crown of thorns, this heart serving as a setting to a cross which will rise from there, and will be inscribed with the Sacred names of Jesus and Mary….Truly our little Congregation is a work of the hearts of Jesus and Mary. The dying Savior gave birth to us through the wound of His Sacred Heart. Saint Francis de Sales to Saint Jane de Chantal

Please sign up to spend time in Adoration in the Visitation Chapel here. Or stop in if you cannot commit to an hour. You are also invited to join us for Mass at 11:40 am on Friday. Enter through the Portress door and sign in before visiting the Visitation Chapel.

Sacred Heart of Jesus
I adore you. I praise you. I bless you.
I love you with all the strength
And all the love in my heart.
But make my heart bigger.
And increase my love.
So that I may love you more.
This is the grace I ask of you.
O Sacred Heart.
For all the hearts that can love you.

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, VHM