Today being the First Friday of the month, our PP celebrated Mass of the Sacred Heart concluding with that lovely old traditional hymn, 'Sweet Heart of Jesus'.
'Sweet heart of Jesus, we implore,
O make us love thee more and more.'
As it is also the Memorial of St Agatha, we also remembered her today. Although the note in the Missal tells us very little about this Virgin and Martyr (and probably just as well, when you read of the torture and mutilation she suffered for her faith!), she must have been very special to be the subject of such widespread devotion in the early Church, and to be mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass. St Agatha is now venerated as the patron saint of those suffering from diseases of the breast.Well, I think we all did very well with our multi-tasking at Mass today - what with the Mass of the Sacred Heart, the Memorial of St Agatha and the readings of the day with the story of the Beheading of John the Baptist, we managed to cover quite a bit of ground in just over half an hour!
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Thank you for this post. Much needed today.
God bless.
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