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The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. [2] According to the General Roman Calendar since 1969, it is formally known as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Latin: Sollemnitas Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu) and celebrated on the second Friday after Trinity Sunday (see § Date, below). [3]
The feast of the Sacred Heart was first celebrated, with episcopal approval, through the influence of John Eudes on 31 August 1670 at the major seminary of Rennes. [4] 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]
Sunday before Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – Solemnity; 26 July: Blessed Andrew of Phú Yên, martyr – Optional Memorial; 15 August: the Assumption of Mary – Solemnity (holy days of obligation in Ecclesiastical Province of Hanoi) 2 September: Vietnam National Day – Optional Memorial
The first resident pastor, the German-speaking Father James Meurer, came to Sacred Heart on Oct. 30, 1877. Two days later, the church became an official parish and construction on a second church ...
Little by little, the devotion to the Sacred Hearts became distinct, and on 31 August 1670 the first feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was celebrated in the Grand Seminary of Rennes. Coutances followed suit on October 20, a day with which the Eudist feast was from then on to be connected. The feast soon spread to other dioceses, and the ...
A liturgical day is defined as running from midnight to midnight except for Sundays and solemnities, which begin on the previous evening. [3] Sunday, as the day of the resurrection of Christ, is the primordial feast day and does not admit other celebrations of rank below that of a solemnity or a feast of the Lord. In Advent, Lent and Easter ...
[2] On 21 June 1675, the day of the first and future Feast of the Sacred Heart, Alacoque alleged that she received a vision of Jesus and made it known to her confessor Saint Claude La Colombière. Following that event, Claude consecrated himself to the Sacred Heart, making him the first person to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ...
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.