by Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli. “The pious practices of devotion to the Sacred Heart are important — especially the nine First Fridays of the month — but they must lead the heart to the imitation of the Heart of Jesus. Otherwise, they lose their value and vitality.... In this month of June, we will compare the Heart of Jesus to the heart of man, so that we may learn from this comparison what the heart of man must do to conform itself to the Heart of Jesus, freeing itself from all the wretched things that set it off kilter, in order to bring about that totality of love to which God calls us.”