An internet friend posted this but didn't know anything about it. Google image search is kind of useless these days, but there are a dozen Pinterest posts that attribute this to iconographer Marek Czarnicki and link to his site -- which doesn't have this image, though it does have other icons in this style.
Still a nice image to close out the month.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us!
I don't like this one nearly as much as my favorite Sacred Heart image, also by Desvallieres. But it's interesting. Click the link and zoom in.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us.
I just ran across this one this week and I love it, but alas don't know anything about it. The person who took it doesn't even remember where she took it.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have mercy on us!
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Chaste Heart of St. Joseph
Jesus, Meek & Humble of Heart, make my heart like unto Thine!
Image Credit: Sacred Heart by Clotilde Devillers for the Abbey of Saint Madeleine
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. ~ Luke 15:7
Sacred Heart Novena, Day 9
Thou comprehendest all I need, dear Lord!
To win my heart, from heaven Thou didst come;
For me Thy blood didst shed, O King adored!
And on our altars makest Thy home.
So, if I may not here behold Thy Face,
Or catch the heav’nly music of Thy Voice,
I still can live, each moment, by Thy grace,
And in Thy Sacred Heart I can rejoice.
~Excerpt from a poem by St. Therese of Lisieux, To the Sacred Heart
Jesus, Meek & Humble of Heart, Make My Heart Like Unto Thine
Hide yourself in the Heart of Jesus; he is our refuge, our shelter, the house of the swallow, the nest of the turtledove, the barque of Peter to carry us over the stormy waters.
~St. Charles de Foucauld in a letter to his sister
Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart. ~Jesus to St. Gertrude the Great
Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love. ―
Sacred Heart Novena, Day 3
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
In the Sacred Heart every treasure of wisdom and knowledge is hidden. In that Divine Heart beats God’s infinite love for everyone, for each one of us individually. – St. John Paul II
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
Day 1 of my visual novena to the Sacred Heart, and Day 15 of my vanity project to post an image/day for the month of June.
The best used hour in our lives is that in which we love Jesus most. ~St. Charles de Foucauld
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
I have been authorized to found a new religious family under the rule of Saint Augustine, under the name of the Little Brothers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for adoring night and day the Holy Eucharist in perpetual exposition, in the solitude of the cloister, in countries of mission, in poverty and work. I am collapsing under the weight of my blessings, of the vision of what I should be, of the vision of the good that I should do and of the good that would be done were I to be sanctified.~St. Charles de Foucauld
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have mercy on us!
The joy and contentment of heart that the Sacred Heart are lavishing upon me make me think myself the happiest missionary in the world.
~St. Damien of Molokai, Missionary of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary
Do not let the past disturb you. Just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Jesus, Meek & Humble of Heart, make my heart like unto thine!
If you're just joining, welcome to June and my vanity project to "share" all my collected images of the Sacred Heart from various travels and internet searches.
The love of Our Lord's Heart was in no way diminished by the treason of Judas, the flight of the apostles, and the persecution of his enemies. Jesus was only grieved at the harm they did themselves; his sufferings helped to assuage his grief because he saw in them a remedy for the sins committed by his enemies. The Sacred Heart was full of most tender love; there was no bitterness in it; no cruelty and injustice that he received moved it to feelings other than those of compassion and affection. ~ St. Claude de la Colombiere, 1674
Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, Have Mercy on Us!
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems. ~Pope St. John XXIII
From a Protestant internet friend:
Before we believed, in 1970 my wife collapsed on the street in Quito; probably the altitude. People ran over, a doctor gave her a pill, and they picked her up and carried her into a convent on the May 24 (Quito independence day and my birthday) square; I sat there by her as she lay in front of a huge rendering of the Sacred Heart. It was incredibly peaceful and comforting.
