The news is just in! The Visitation Order of Holy Mary will be celebrating the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary, December 2023-June 2025!
Bishop, Mgr Benoît Rivière of Auton has decreed a Great Jubilee for commemorate the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Heart of Jesus to Saint Marguerite-Marie in Paray-leMonial.
The theme of this Jubilee will be “Giving back love for love”.
The opening will take place on December 27, 2023, anniversary date of the first main appearance and closing on June 27, 2025, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and liturgical date of the great apparition of 1675.
1. On this occasion, the Order of the Visitation being intimately linked to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we invite you to bring especially in your prayer the events of the jubilee year taking place at the following dates: •
Rencontres de Paray (3-day retreat around the 1st Friday of each month)
In 2024: February 1-4, February 29-March 3, May 2-5, October 31-November 3, December S-8, In 2025: February 6-9, March 6-9, April 3-6, May 1-4, June 5-8 •
Feasts of Mercy: April 6-7, 2024 and April 26-27, 2025 •
Feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: June 6-9, 2024 and June 27-29, 2025, closing of the jubilee year
• Feast of Saint Margaret Mary: October 16-20, 2024 •
Symposium from May 1 to 5, 2024
We draw your attention to two of these events: • the feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 2024 and 2025: we suggest that you organize a local spiritual or festive event to celebrate this Jubilee. To help you do this, resources are available on our website https://www.sacrecoeur-paray.org
• the symposium from 1 to 5 May 2024 which will take place in Rome on the theme of Reparation.
For any information, you can contact Béatrice de Bastard: sanctuary@paray.org +33 6 85 04 84 60.
Hoping that this Jubilee will be all to the glory of the Heart of Jesus, we particularly recommend to your prayer and that of your community these preparations and its unfolding.
Kind regards, Sr. Maria Guadalupe PIMIENTA SANDOVAL, vsm Superior of the Monastery of Paray-le-Monial
Father Etienne KERN Rector * This jubilee is/ organized by the Sacré-Coeur Sanctuary: the chaplains. parish. the Jesuits. the Visitandines and supported by all the other religious communities of Paray-le-Monial, France.
If you do attend, enter the Church Building of St Peter and Paul in Williamsburg, at 288 Berry St and go up the stairs for art exhibit, above the Chapel.
You will see many paintings and a special one of our own Sacred Heart Chapel!
