Second week in a row on our travels we come to another Sacred Heart Catholic Church. This one is located in Munising, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Just a couple blocks back and in sight of Lake Superior, we attended this Sacred Heart for the Vigil of the Assumption of our Lady into Heaven.
The priest was filling in for the pastor who was on vacation. He was the long time pastor and is now retired to Fort Myers, Florida at Resurrection Catholic Church.
The devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is especially concerned with what the church deems to be the long-suffering love and compassion of the heart of Christ towards humanity. The popularization of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a Roman Catholic nun from France, Margaret Mary Alacoque, who learned the devotion from Jesus during a series of apparitions to her between 1673 and 1675, and later, in the 19th century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic nun in Portugal, Mary of the Divine Heart, a religious sister of the congregation of the Good Shepherd, who requested in the name of Christ that Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.