HEART OF JESUS “BEGINING OF ALL MY THOUGHTS WORDS AND ACTIONS”

HEART OF JESUS “BEGINING OF ALL MY THOUGHTS WORDS AND ACTIONS”

San Giovanni Eudes

"O adorable Heart full of love of my Saviour be thou the heart of my hearts, the soul of my Soul, the Spirit of my Spirit, life of my life and the only begining of all my thoughts, words and actions of all the strength of my Soul and of all my senses, both internal and external.”
AMEN

(Preghiera al Sacro Cuore di Gesù, scritta da San Giovanni Eudes)

Let us be touched by the Heart of Jesus

Meditation of Sr Teresa for the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Every year the Friday that follows the 2nd. Sunday of Pentecost  is celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is contained essentially in the Divine Revelation. The Fathers of the church encouraged continually the faithful to relate to the love of the Saviour given to men, to meditate frequently  on the open side of Christ. Through the open wound of the side of Jesus you will reach the heart  and you start to establish a parallel between the Heart and the Love of Jesus Christ for Humanity.

But it is  through the influence  of the Holy Spirit  that from the 11th.century in the Catholic church  there arose an elaborate theology  on the  cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus  encouraged by the mystic phenomenon  of the chosen souls like St. Matilda and St. Gertrude.

Saint Francis de Sales,  transmitted  his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus  to the Sisters of the Visitation.

St. John Eudes, described in the acts of beatification  “Father, doctor,  and apostle  of this devotion”, began the public and official cult, approved at first in many French dioceses  and  afterwards by many Popes. To the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,  St John Eudes adds also that of the Heart of Mary.

In this historical context,  a nun of the Visitation in the monastery of Paray-le-Monial, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647 – 1690), in the first great apparition of the 27th. December 1673 was instructed by Jesus on the love He harbours for Humanity  and His great Divine Wish of saving all through His Heart.

Blessed Mary of the Divine  Heart in her interlocutions with Our Lord receives the mission to ask the Pope, Leo XIII to Cosacrate  all humanity to His Heart. When she was very sick she dictated to her spiritual director a first letter to the Pope in June 1898 and wrote another one with her own hand in January 1899.  LEO XIII  IN THE encyclical “Annum Sacrum”, in which  he announced the Jubilee  of 1900,  established as well the act of consecration  to the Sunday 11th. June 1899, just behind the feast of the Sacred Heart.

In the XX century the devotion  is revived with the message of St. Faustian Kawalska on the Divine Mercy.

“ The Heart of Jesus is so great that it wishes to welcome all in the revolution of tenderness. The neatness to the Heart of the Saviour encourages our heart to go near with love to the brother, and help to enter in this compassion for the world . Many persons suffer because of grave difficulties. We can help them by accompanying them along the way filled with compation that changes the life of the persons and brings them nearer to the Heart of Jesus Christ. We pray so that those who suffer will find ways in life letting themselves to be you had by the Heart of Jesus.”

POPE FRANCIS

We honour the Hearts of Jesus and Mary with St. John Eudes:

Hail Heart most holy,
We salute you Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
We Adore you Heart most mild, Heart most Humble, Heart most Pure.
We Praise you Heart most priestly, Heart most knowing, Heart most patient.
We Glorify you, Heart most obedient, Heart most vigilant, Heart most Faithful.
We Offer You Our Heart, we give it to you, we Cosacrate it to you.
Receive it , own it wholly.
Purify it, enlighten it, make it holy.