Dear Friends,

FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART: I am writing this message on Friday morning. It is the feast of the Sacred Heart. This feast is always special to me. I was baptized, educated, confirmed, and said my first Mass at Sacred Heart in Jersey City. I have a picture in my room of the beautiful sanctuary. My parents were married there. My grandparents worshipped there. I can remember a prayer my mother taught me to pray to the Sacred Heart. She told me she said it many times especially when I am praying for something important. I still say it when I need something very special: 

“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I have asked you for many favors but I plead for this one.  Take it, place it in Your open broken Heart, and when the Eternal Father sees it covered with the mantle of your Most Precious Blood He cannot refuse it, for then it is your prayer, not mine.”