At its core, devotion to the Sacred Heart is all about God’s love for humanity. It is with this immense love that the Father gave His Son into our hands, that the Son delivered Himself up to death for us, and that the Father gives His Son and the Son gives Himself to us in the Blessed Sacrament on the altar. Devotion to the Sacred Heart is devotion to the love of God poured out for us in Jesus.
There are many practices Catholics use to carry out this devotion – among the most common are making a morning offering, participating often in Eucharist Adoration, making an act of consecration to the Sacred Heart and renewing it at least once a year, and making a First Friday Devotion. The latter entails going to Mass and receiving Holy Communion on the First Friday of every month for at least nine consecutive months and offering it for the reparation of sins committed against Jesus’ Sacred Heart and the Eucharist.