By Dr. David Vegue Corbacho, Permanent Missionary of Regnum Christi
June 27th of the current year 2025, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Friday next to the octave of Corpus Christi, as established in 1856 by Blessed Pope Pius IX, in response to the request that the same Jesus made Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque of institutego to a feast to honor his Heart and to make reparation, through prayer, for the offenses he receives.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart has its foundations in Christianity of the early years. The Apostle John testifies in his Gospel that dthe pierced heart of Christ on the cross «blood and water came out» (Jn 19, 24). Based on St. Paul's teaching on Christ as the second spiritual Adam (1 Cor 15, 45), the Fathers of the Church (among them Tertullian, St. Cyprian and St. Augustine), the Fathers of the Church (among them Tertullian, St. Cyprian and St. Augustine) stated que, from the wound in Christ's side, as an inexhaustible source of love and saving grace, gave birth to the Church and the sacraments, divine gifts. by which Christ acts for the redemption of souls.
According to registers San Bernardo de Clairvaux, at In the Middle Ages, Christians frequently meditated on the «Five Wounds of Jesus», in particular the of the spear, considering it as a the door of access to the Heart of Christ for «to penetrate into the great secret of Dios, where all the riches of wisdom and understanding are hidden» (Col 2, 2 - 3).
Through private disclosures, devotion was established in Europe from the 12th century after the apparitions of the Sacred Heart mystics such as the Belgian Santa Lutgarda from Aywières, the Germans Santa Maria, the Germans Santa Matilde de Hackeborn & Santa Gertrudis de Helfta, the Blessed German Enrique Suso & the Italian St. Angela of Foligno.
August 31, 1670, the French priest St. John Eudes, by divine inspiration, celebrated the first feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and introduced its liturgical worship together with that of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
But the definitive backing for the devotion, which meant its diffusion e institution worldwide, came with the apparitions of Christ to the French nun Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque intre 1673 y 1675. Saw the Sacred Heart «in flames, with the wound, surrounded by a crown of thorns and a cross on top of it». He asked that the faithful who receive it frequently at the Eucharist, especially the first nine Fridays of the month, and to a holy hour of reparation for the sins of the world, Finally requestó «that a special feast be dedicated to honor my Heart on the first Friday after the octave of the Most Blessed Sacrament».
At Spain, Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos, Jesuit priest, May 14, 1733, Ascension Day, while praying after communion so that the devotion to the Heart of Jesus would be spread at Hispanic territories of that time (Kingdom of Spain in Europe, América and Asia), saw the Sacred Heart and received of it a Great Promise: «I WILL REIGN IN SPAIN AND WITH MORE VENERATION THAN ELSEWHERE.».
In Valladolid, Spain, is the National Basilica of the Great Promise, where the apparition of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos is remembered and guarded. This temple also houses an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico. together with the set of coats of arms of the countries that, in the time of Bernardo de Hoyos, Kingdom of Spain.
LThe countriess go tois of what was then er. Spain, donde currently lives ino half of all Catholics at the world, are fortunateis by go tor dthe reign of such a loving Heart, for this reason have historically stood out for their devotion to, promotion, promotion, consecrations website and apostolate inspired by the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
For the member of the Regnum Christi, love personal, real, passionate and faithful to Christ (cf. SRCF 12, 14, 58) is the engine for comply the mission from «the mystery of Christ who goes out to meet people, who reveals to them the love of His heart, the meets and form as apostles, leaders Christians, the send & accompanies to collaborate in the evangelization of men and society» (SRCF 8, 9). «We are called, personally and institutionally, to read the world from the Heart of Christ.» (Communiqué Ordinary General Convention 2024), y we consider devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus like a fundamental pillar of our spirituality and charisma, we promote through our apostolic activity.
Dr. David Vegue Corbacho, has had experience of five years as a teacher in Spanish public schools at the sSecondary and bachillerato. As a lecturer, since 1998 he has given lectures in Spain and Mexico on philosophical, theological, humanistic and educational topics. On a private level, since August year 2000 works as a career professor at the Anahuac Mayab University, teaching Humanities classes for undergraduate students of all careers and postgraduate classes at master's and doctoral level for Education and Humanities programs. In this same university he is Coordinator of Humanities Graduate Studies and professor in two generations of the Master in Human Sciences, and four Diplomas: Great Religions, Myths and Realities of the History of the Church, Religious Art and Ancient Humanism..
Cover photo: Image of the Sacred Heart, in the Basilca of the Great Promise of Valladolid.
