Immaculate Heart Communications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation with the goal of promoting and defending Catholic teaching and tradition.
Our primary project is the Sacred Heart billboard campaign in the month of June, in union with America Needs Fatima (ANF.org) and other organizations throughout the United States.
We purchase billboards proclaiming that Jesus Christ is King, and that June is the month of the Sacred Heart.
The dedication of the Month of June to the Sacred Heart dates back to visions of a French nun, Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque, when in 1673 she began to received visions from Jesus.
Jesus appeared to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque, revealing to her ways to venerate his Sacred Heart and explained the immense love he has for humanity, appearing with his heart visible outside his chest, on fire, and surrounded by a crown of thorns.
The ways to venerate the Sacred Heart include partaking in a holy hour on Thursdays, the reception of the Eucharist on the first Friday of every month, Eucharistic adoration, and the celebration of the feast of the Sacred Heart.
Jesus told Sister Margaret Mary: “My Sacred Heart is so intense in its love for men, and for you in particular, that not being able to contain within it the flames of its ardent charity, they must be transmitted through all means.”
On June 16, 1675, Jesus told Sister Margaret Mary to promote a feast that honored his Sacred Heart. He also gave her 12 promises made to all who venerate and promote the devotion of the Sacred Heart.
Our Lord Jesus said: “I ask of you that the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special feast to honor my heart, by communicating on that day, and making reparation to it by a solemn act, in order to make amends for the indignities which it has received during the time it has been exposed on the altars. I promise you that my heart shall expand itself to shed in abundance the influence of its divine love upon those who shall thus honor it and cause it to be honored.”
Sister Margaret Mary died in 1690 and was canonized by Pope Benedict XV on May 13, 1920.
In 1899, Pope Leo XIII promulgated the encyclical Annum sacrum, which consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
On June 1, 2022, Pope Francis Speaking in St. Peter’s Square at the end of his Wednesday general audience said, “Today we begin the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, source of love and peace”.
“Open yourselves to this love and take it ‘to the ends of the earth,’ witnessing to the goodness and mercy that flow from the Heart of Jesus.”
