In the depth of Jesus' Passion and Mary's compassion

The Church invites us to consider carefully the love that is manifested in the depth of Jesus' Passion and Mary's compassion: "O you who pass by the way, look and see if there is any suffering like my suffering" (Lamentations 1:12).

During the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1) in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to prove Its love; and in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude."

Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him by praying every Thursday evening for an hour to participate in his agony in Gethsemane. He said to her: "There I suffered more than in all the rest of my Passion... there is no creature who can understand the greatness of the torments I suffered then."

The Mary of Nazareth Team

(1) Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690) was a French Visitation nun and mystic from the convent of Paray-le-Monial who had visions of Jesus and promoted the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.