First Friday Sept. 1

Adoration and Benediction will begin after the 12:05 PM Mass in the chapel, and conclude at 1:15 PM. First Friday devotions date from long ago, and center on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the seventeenth century, Our Lord asked French nun, now Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, to honor His Sacred Heart on nine consecutive first Fridays, by attending Holy Mass and receiving Holy Communion. Jesus said, “I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that its all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on nine first Fridays of consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they will not die under my displeasure or without receiving their sacraments, my divine Heart making itself their assured refuge at the last moment."