In heaven, Jesus is worshiped not only as King but as the Lamb still bearing the marks of love. In the Old Testament ...

This leads us up to Jesus Christ, our heavenly high priest ... offered eternally by the king-priest in the heavenly Jerusalem, “the wedding feast of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9), made ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart became very popular during the early eighteenth century.