National Shrine of The Divine Mercy May 2, 2021

Saint Faustina’s Corner During adoration, Jesus said to me [of Olives]. Diary 1664 The Heart of Jesus was conceived beneath the heart of the Virgin Mother, and its earthly life ceased at the moment Jesus died on the Cross. This is testified to by the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance. In the Words of St. John Paul II - The Sacred Heart of Jesus The words of the Psalm – “My soul give thanks to the Lord, all my being bless his holy name” – say that our human “heart” addresses God in all the unimaginable majesty of his divinity and his holiness and, at the same time, in his wonderful “openness” to mankind: in his “condescension”. In this way “heart” meets “Heart”; “heart” speaks to the “Heart”. In the Creed we profess: “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man”. Here we more directly touch upon the reality of the Heart of Jesus. For the heart is a human organ, belonging to the body, belonging to the whole structure, to the spiritual and physical makeup of man: “And the Word was made flesh”. St. John Paul II Homily Sept 18, 1984; go tohttp://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1984/documents/hf_jp- ii_hom_19840918_messa-vancouver.html . During the whole of Jesus’ earthly life, this Heart was the centre in which was manifested, in a human way, the love of God: the love of God the Son, and, through the Son, the love of God the Father.