Paray-le-Monial
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Oct 17, 2026
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She did not yet know that this was only the beginning.
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She did not know that somewhere ahead of her stood a convent in a small town called Paray-le-Monial.
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A Jesuit confessor would believe her when no one else would, and a revelation that would be remembered for centuries.
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She knew only that she belonged to Christ and that he had been waiting.
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The strange part is that she had never heard of them.
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She says in her memoirs that St. Francis de Sales appeared to her and told her she was to be his daughter.
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A visit to the Visitation convent in the small town of Paray-le-Monial, a short ride from her village, sealed it.
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When she stepped into the parlor and met the superior, Mother Marie Françoise de Salmès, she heard within her as clearly as one hears a bell, the words she would never forget, "Here, I want you." She was received into the community on the twenty-fifth of May, sixteen seventy-one.
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Margaret Mary is born in France in 1647.
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She eventually entered the Visitation Convent in Paray-le-Monial, where she lived for a quiet life of prayer.
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But something extraordinary happened.
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Between 1673 and 1675, Margaret Mary reported receiving a series of revelations of Jesus Christ.
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Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Visitation nun through whom devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus spread throughout the Church.
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Born in sixteen forty-seven, she entered the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial in sixteen seventy-one.
Penny LordNARRATOR
There, in the quiet rhythm of prayer and religious life, she reported a series of visions of our Lord between sixteen seventy-three and sixteen seventy-five.
Penny LordNARRATOR
Margaret Mary described seeing the Heart of Jesus burning with love for humanity and wounded by indifference, especially toward His presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
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Her family hoped she would marry, and Margaret Mary herself knew the appeal of ordinary social life.
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Yet her desire to give herself wholly to God grew stronger.
Penny LordNARRATOR
In sixteen seventy-one, she entered the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial.
Penny LordNARRATOR
Joining the order founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal, she made her religious profession the following year.
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And Saint Margaret Mary was born in sixteen forty-seven in the Diocese of Autun in France.
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She joined the Sisters of the Visitation at Paray-le-Monial, where she advanced in the life of perfection, and she was favored with mystical revelations.
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[clears throat] She was especially devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was responsible for spreading the devotion to the Church.
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She died on October seventeenth, sixteen ninety.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
So I, I really encourage you to watch this episode, and it ties in to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and her vision, her visio, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
For a moment, I want you to imagine St. Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial, which is a very small outskirt, uh, uh, sub- way out there from, uh, Lyon in France.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
It's between Lyon and Cluny, if you've ever been.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
And this small little convent, I've been there, is just like this little church.
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She desired, however, to embrace the more rigorous life of the Visitation Sisters.
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Though it seemed that everyone opposed her, she persevered, and on May twenty-first, fifteen seventy-one, she entered the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial.
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As soon as she entered the parlor for her initial visit, she interiorly heard Jesus say, "It is here that I would have thee be." After some doubts by her superiors as to whether she was a good fit for the Visitation Sisters, she received the habit and took her vows on November sixth, fifteen seventy-two.
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During Margaret Mary's novitiate, Jesus revealed to her that he had a special mission for her.
James ConleyGUEST
Uh, well, you know, one, uh, I, I saw it as, um, obviously I was consecrated a bishop on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the f- the f- this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, May 30th, 2008 in Denver, Colorado.
James ConleyGUEST
So the Sacred Heart has always been a strong devotion of mine ever since I visited Paray-le-Monial in France, where, um, our Lord appeared to St. Margaret Mary.
James ConleyGUEST
And so I wanted to be consecrated on the Sacred Heart.
James ConleyGUEST
That's the date I chose.
PriestHOST
La consagración a Jesús y a María, al Sagrado Corazón y al Inmaculado Corazón.
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Es una devoción de siglos, de hace siglos, desde que el Señor se aparece a santa Margarita María de Alacoque en Paray-le-Monial.
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Se aparece como el Sagrado Corazón y le dice: Mira cómo amo a los hombres y lo poco que ellos me aman a mí.
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No me aman, le dice a santa Margarita, no me aman, no me aman.