Blessed Sacrament Congregation in Milwaukee celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus devoted to teaching about love and mercy of God.

“This devotion has its origins in the earliest centuries of the Church, but it did not come to greater recognition and widespread use until the Medieval times and in the 1600s,” Matthew Fetch said in the Congregation bulletin. “The point of this feast is to remind us that God’s love is always there for us. God loves us infinitely, and he wants us to accept that love and love him in return.”

 God’s love manifests itself in the forgiveness of our sins and mercy, Ferch said, the bulletin reported.

“He wants to share his heart with us and ours with him, so we can share joys, triumphs, failings, and sorrows with him,” Ferch said, according to the bulletin. “We can do this by going to Mass and receiving the Eucharist, going to Confession.”