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The honor and worship now given to the Sacred Heart of Jesus had its origin through the revelations made to St. Margaret Mary in the seventeenth century. The immediate object of the devotion is the Heart of Jesus, the Son of God, and the burning Love of Christ manifested toward mankind. Its aim is to make our Lord king over our hearts by exciting in them a return of love, by forming them to imitate His meekness, and by offering Him reparation for the ingratitude of man.