350 YEARS OF PREVENTION
Letter from the Bishop of Tarazona, Mons. Vicente Rebollo, for Sunday, June 9, 2024
We’re within the month devoted to the Coronary heart of Jesus, whose feast we celebrated final Friday. This 12 months is especially related as we’re celebrating the Jubilee on the event of the 350th anniversary of its look for Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
This jubilee 12 months was opened on December 27, 2023 for the reason that different December 27 got here in 1673 for the primary time leaving the next message: “my divine coronary heart is so stuffed with the love of males and particularly to you, who can now not include the calls of his ardent charity, who really feel compelled to unfold them by means of your intercession.“. It’ll finish on June 27, 2025, the solemnity of the Sacred Coronary heart of Jesus.
The motto of this jubilee 12 months is “give love to like“. It’s divided into three elements akin to the three apparitions of Saint Margaret. Within the first we’re invited to insert ourselves into the center stuffed with Jesus’ love by means of the Eucharist, we’re advisable as a way of selling Eucharistic adoration by means of worship. There are various parishes in our Diocese that dedicate time all through the week or month to this knowledge, by means of the presentation of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hours, and Night time Worship. Proceed like this, supply the devoted this chance of develop within the closeness of God’s love by worshiping the Eucharist of Jesus.
The second message to be thought of for this Jubilee corresponds to the second apparition that occurred firstly of the 12 months 1674, which Saint Margaret tells us “He knowledgeable me that it was his nice need to like males and save them from the trail of corruption that led him to kind that plan to point out his Coronary heart to the world. AND those that requested to like him, he’ll enrich them with the abundance of divine treasures of his coronary heart“. Within the gentle of this message we’re invited to mirror on the redemptive worth of the providing of Jesus’ coronary heart, reparation and belief.
Because of this, a convention was held in Rome with the slogan “restore the irreparable“. Reparation means receiving Jesus’ love and loving Him in flip as a solution to make up for the indifference and offenses He suffers. We will solely discover love by receiving his love. Pope Francis stated within the speech he gave to the members, “Reparation is to be Christian, to the touch the center of the offender and to not be a easy reciprocal act of Justice the next attitudes, admitting guilt and asking for forgiveness“.
Stunning phrases to fill this jubilee 12 months with content material open to forgiveness and love which at all times arises in our hearts if we ask God for it and is open to reconciliation with our brother as a realization of this compensatory love.
The third minute can be celebrated subsequent 12 months with the slogan “We consecrate ourselves to your Coronary heart“
We ask, by means of the intercession of Saint Margaret, that this jubilee be open us fully to merciful love which originates from the Coronary heart of Jesus, that we love him extra intensely on daily basis.
+Vicente Rebollo Mozos.
Bishop of Tarazona