The devotion to the Sacred Heart may be summarized in two words:
love and reparation. Love for the Heart of Jesus, who of His great love for us instituted the Holy Eucharist; reparation for the ingratitude, the scorn, the insults, the sacrileges committed against His divine Heart in the Sacrament of His love.
Thus all good Christians would do well to make the first Friday of the month a day of love and expiation, a day of prayer and penance. They ought to offer their communion to the Heart of Jesus in return for His infinite charity. This communion ought to be followed by an act of reparation and an act of consecration to the Sacred Heart.
