The
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated on the Friday
following the second Sunday of the Pentecost. Aside from the liturgical
celebrations, many devotional exercises are connected with the Sacred
heart of Jesus has remained one of the most widespread and popular
in the church.
According
to the scriptures, the "Sacred Heart of Jesus" denoted
the entire mystery of Christ, the totality of his being, and his
person considered in its most intimate essential: Son of God, uncreated
wisdom; infinite charity, principal of the salvation and sanctification
of mankind. The "Sacred Heart" is Christ, the Word Incarnate,
Saviour, intrinsically containing, in the Spirit, an infinite divine-human
love for the Father and for his brothers.
Jesus,
who is one with the Father invites his disciples to live in close
communion with him, to model their lives on him and on his teaching.
He, in turn, reveals himself as "meek and humble of heart"
. It can be said that, in a certain sense, devotion to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus is a cultic form of the prophetic and evangelic gaze
of all Christians on him who was pierced , the gaze of all Christians
on the side of Christ, transfixed by a lance, and from which flowed
blood and water , symbols of the "wondrous sacrament of the
Church".
The
Gospel of St. John recounts the showing of the Lord's hands and
his side to the disciples and of his invitation to Thomas to put
his hand into his side. This event has also had a notable influence
on the origin and development of the Church's devotion to the Sacred
Heart.
For
more information on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and our spiritual
life, kindly click on the following links:
• Miserentissimus
Redemptor
• Litany
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Act
of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Consecration
to the Sacred Heart
• Enthronement
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Home
• Devotion
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Twelve
Promises of Jesus to Saint Mary Margaret
• Nine
First Friday Devotions to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus
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