But why His Heart? Because in every language, in every age, the heart
is regarded as the natural symbol of love and affection. What more
natural and expressive symbol is there, then, of the excessive love of
Jesus than His Sacred Heart? The direct and material object of devotion
to the Sacred Heart is the real, physical Heart of Jesus - the Heart of
flesh, the living and loving Heart of our Blessed Lord; the Heart that
beat in His Divine breast at the moment of the Incarnation; the Heart
that loved us during the life of Jesus on earth, that poured forth its
blood to the last drop on Mount Calvary; the beatified Heart now
glorious in Heaven and still dwelling among us in the Blessed Sacrament;
the Heart ever united to the Person of the Divine Word, to whom is due
supreme homage and adoration.
