The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is coming in just a couple of weeks. I wanted to share a couple of things we did for St. Valentine's Day that would also work for celebrating the Feast of the Sacred Heart. Very similar to the Crown of Thorns during Lent and the tradition of putting straw in Jesus' Crib during Advent I greated a Sacred Heart that the kids put paper's in when they preform a good deed. Such as being charitable to a sibling or parent, doing some little good act, obeying as they are told, extra chores ect. They place a paper in Jesus' Sacred Heart that says 'So and So Loves Jesus' and in this way they 'fill' Jesus' Sacred Heart with love. In the opposite when they are naughty they take a paper out of His Sacred Heart because they have heart Jesus and made their soul sick.
On St. Valentine's Day we also made Sacred Heart sugar cookies. Just a simple heart shaped cookie cutter will do and then the appropriate colored frosting. We used chocolate for the thorns on the heart and piped it on by putting it in a sandwhich bag and snipping off the corner. If you really wanted to get into it you could make your own cookie cutter with this DIY blog so that the flame was present on the Sacred Heart.
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