Excerpt from The Mercies of the Sacred Heart: Twelve Sermons for the First FridaysEver linked with the Lord of the Sacred Heart in the thoughts, and prayers, and devotions of those who love Him, is His sweet Mother, our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The first Friday of last month was a festival of this Lady under the invocation Of our Lady of Sorrows. That day we stood with her in spirit beneath the cross on Calvary. Since then the Easter sun has risen once more on this sad earth Of ours, and, in the liturgy of the Church as in the world around us, gloom has, for a season, given place to gladness. For, 10, the winter is now past, the rain is over and gone, the ¿owers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come, and the voice Of the turtle is heard in our land (the Canticle of Canticles, ii. II, It is the month Of May, the month of green fields and spring ing ¿owers, it is Mary's month, for our Lady of the Sacred Heart is our Queen of the May, and every day of it is dedicated to her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.