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Show Thoughts on the Sacred Heart.. One of the best things that the Sacred Sa-cred Heart devotion has done is to increase the number of Communions. o Our Lord once declared that He had come to cast fire upon earth. How His Sacred Heart must be disappointed disappoint-ed that so many hearts refuse to let that Divine fire to ibe rekindled in them! Shall we not grieve over this? o It does not require a very tender heart to grieve before the tabernacle, when we think of all that Jesus is doing do-ing for us, and of the poor returns He receives. "Behold this Heart, so loving and so little loved!" This He sar3 to each of us, as he said one day to Blessed Margaret Mary. o "Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, desired nothing more," wrote Pope Pius IX, "than to kindle the flame of charity- by which His heart was burning ln all ways in the heart of men. .. . but that He might the more kindle this fire of charity, it was His will that the veneration ven-eration and worship of ' His . Sacred Heart should be Instituted and promoted." pro-moted." , |