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The most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in the form it is known today was Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), a nun of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, who claimed to have received Sacred Heart revelations from Jesus Christ between 1673 and 1675 in the Burgundian French village of Paray-le-Monial.
Although Eudes always associated the two Hearts, he began his devotional teachings with the Heart of Mary, and then extended it to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. [5] In 1765, devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was formally approved. Pope Pius IX extended the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the entire Catholic Church in 1858. [6]
The litany is made up of portions of earlier litanies dating to the seventeenth century. This included invocations composed by Jean Croiset S.J. in 1681, and ten by the Visitandine Anne-Madeleine Remuzat, plus others for a total of thirty-three, as in the years of Jesus' earthly life.
The first "month" of the Sacred Heart was celebrated at the time of the French Revolution.In fact, French Jesuit Alexandre Lanfant, who would die as a martyr in the Massacres of September 1792, encouraged the distribution of a pamphlet calling for forty days of prayer and penance which ended with a solemn prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart in June 1790.
In 1889, Pope Leo XIII permitted priests and bishops worldwide to offer one morning votive Mass of the Sacred Heart on the first Friday of each month in churches or oratories where special devotions to the Sacred Heart were held, provided no feast of the Lord, double of the first class, or privileged feria, vigil, or octave occurred on that day ...
This led her to promote Devotion of the Sacred Heart. [13] She was declared a saint in 1920 and the Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. Saint Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church by Tiepolo, c. 1746. Catherine of Siena was a Dominican tertiary who lived, fasted and prayed at home in Siena Italy. In 1370 she ...
Haurietis aquas (English: "You will draw waters") is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was published on May 15, 1956, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Pius IX. The title is derived from Isaiah 12:3. [1]
IHS monogram, with kneeling angels, atop the main altar, Church of the Gesù, Rome Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus exists both in Eastern and Western Christianity. [1] The reverence and affection with which Christians have regarded the Holy Name of Jesus goes back to the earliest days of Christianity.