# Why We Struggle To Love God, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

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Podcast: [Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279)
Published: 2026-06-16T13:02:44+00:00
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June is the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is a devotion to the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ for us, especially His love for us as manifested in the Holy Eucharist. This devotion to Our Lord’s physical heart, as a symbol of His love for us, existed during the Middle Ages, but in the 1600s, Our Lord Himself came down on earth to explicitly ask for Catholics to practice this devotion and for this feast to be instituted. The timing and place was important. Our Lord appeared in France at a time when the heresy of Jansenism was rampant in the Catholic world. This heresy made the hearts of Catholics cold towards God and so, a few decades after its appearance, Our Lord reminded the world of His great love for us and of our duty to love Him in return. If we fast forward to 2026, we find that we as Catholics and even as traditional Catholics very much struggle to love Our Lord as He deserves to be loved. This is why it is important for us to have a devotion to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart. This helps us to love Our Lord. We must remember what our catechism teaches us, namely, that we are made to know, love and serve God in this life. We are made to love God. Loving God is to fulfill the very meaning for our existence, to accomplish the purpose for which we exist. There are two pieces of knowledge that are very important for us to possess in order for us to love God: one is an understanding of sin and the other is an understanding of God’s love. These two things are mentioned in the beautiful Collect of the Mass of the Sacred Heart: “O God, Who in the Heart of Your Son, wounded by our sins, mercifully lavish upon us the infinite riches of love”. There are two great truths there:…

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