As with traditional depictions of the Sacred Heart, Our Lord's Heart is surrounded with thorns and pierced, with drops of blood flowing out, alluding to His Crown of Thorns and the lance which pierced His Side. The top of the Heart is aflame with love for humanity- that Heart which has exhausted and consumed itself "in order to testify its love." Encircling the Heart is the phrase, "Voilà ce Cœur, qui a tant aimé les hommes." Painted in gold leaf, it is taken from the beginning of the message of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary on June 16th, 1675. The French phrase translates as, "Behold this Heart which has so loved men." The message continues: "...that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love. In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this sacrament of love. And what is most painful to Me is that they are hearts consecrated to Me.”

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