THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
The image of God’s love revealed in the Sacred Heart of Jesus is foundational to the Association of Consecrated Companies
WHY CONSECRATION TO JESUS THROUGH HIS SACRED HEART?
The Holy Spirit has inspired many authentic charisms, spiritualities, and devotions throughout the centuries. If they are authentic, they testify to a dimension of the Mystery of Jesus Christ. Many can be seen as divine responses to historical realities and situations. For example, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity seek to be poor like Christ and to serve the poorest of the poor. The Holy Spirit moved her to respond to the needs of the destitute and dying on the streets of Calcutta.
So, why should business owners consecrate themselves to/through the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus developed especially as a response to the heresy of Jansenism in the 17th century. The heresy overemphasized the corruption and sin of humanity. It also overemphasized the power of God’s grace, negating our freedom and collaboration with God’s grace. According to this heresy, God’s grace was thought to be irresistible, and ultimately, it was God who determined who was saved and who was condemned. This was a pessimistic view of the human person and an almost tyrannical view of God. In our day, in the 21st century, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The modern heresy proclaims falsely that everyone is saved by God no matter what they do!
Just as the devotion to the Sacred Heart was a corrective to Jansenism in the 17th century, it is also a corrective to some of the errors of our own day. The Sacred Heart of Jesus proclaims that God cares for each one of us and is able to transform our hearts. God’s grace is not only powerful but also capable of healing our hearts and elevating us to share in divine life. But God does not take away our freedom. In fact, there is no love without freedom. You cannot force someone to love you. God loves us freely, and we are called to love God freely in return. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus teaches us that we need to collaborate with God’s grace and merciful love. What I do or do not do matters. God is not indifferent to my response to his love.
When we contemplate the Sacred Heart, we are not just contemplating the love of God Incarnate in Jesus. We are contemplating a merciful heart on fire with love for humanity and each human being. The Person of Jesus Christ mysteriously unites the human and divine. As humans, we are called to participate in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). As consecrated business owner, you and your business are called to be radically transformed by God’s love. You are personally invited to be part of this divine transformation, to be valued and significant in God’s plan.
The mystery of this transformation is powerfully contained in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In fact, Jesus made several promises to those who honor his Sacred Heart. Here are the first eight. He will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life. He will establish peace in their families. He will comfort them in their trials. He will be their secure refuge. He will shed abundant blessings on all their undertakings. His heart will be an infinite ocean of mercy. Lukewarm souls will become fervent. Fervent souls will rapidly grow in holiness and perfection.
Rooted in the profound symbolism of the Sacred Heart, we embrace Jesus’ revelation that through his incarnation, grace working through our humanity can bring about personal transformation.
Pius XII’s emphasis in his 1956 encyclical “Haurietis Aquas”, On Devotion to the Sacred Heart, underscored the transformative power of love. When under the influence of the Supreme Being, love unites minds with the divine will, recreating and conforming hearts to God. This doctrine affirms the universality of God’s love and aligns perfectly with our goal to infuse businesses with purpose, moral responsibility, and commitment to the common good.
How can God’s love transform the corporate realm? Based on the theological foundation provided by St. Thomas Aquinas, we believe that when God’s love is infused into the corporate realm, it can effect transformative change. It fosters a business environment that is compassionate and just. We aim to achieve this impact with our association of consecrated business owners.
CONSECRATING BUSINESSES TO THE SACRED HEART IS OUR WAY OF INSPIRING A PROFOUND SENSE OF PURPOSE, CONTRIBUTING TO A WORLD WHERE BUSINESSES ACTIVELY PROMOTE THE COMMON GOOD AND CREATE ETERNAL VALUE.
12 PROMISES
For those who honor His Sacred Heart, our Lord promised the following to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque:
12 PROMISES
For those who honor His Sacred Heart, our Lord promised the following to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque:
- I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
- I will establish peace in their families.
- I will bless every home in which an image of My Heart is exposed and honored.
- I will console them in all their difficulties.
- I will be their refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.
- I will pour abundant blessing upon all their undertakings.
- Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
- Tepid souls shall become fervent.
- Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
- I will give priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.
- Those who promote this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart.
- In the excessive mercy of My Heart, that My all-powerful love will grant to all who communicate on the First Friday of the month for nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My displeasure nor without their last Sacraments: “My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.”
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