Course 4, Chapter 46: Christianity visible. — Feast of the Sacred Heart

1. What is the feast of the Sacred Heart?

It is a festival established by the church, to bonor the Sacred Heart of the Saviour burning with love for us, and to repair the outrages offered to that most Sacred Heart.

2. What worship do we owe to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?

We owe to the sacred heart of Jesus the same worship of adoration that we pay to his div ine humanity; because it is personally united to the divinity. In honorkig the sacred heart we honor Jesus Christ himself.

3. What is the ©rigis of the devotion to the Sacred Heart?

The devotion of the Sacred Heart was revealed to the veaerable Margarite Mary Alacoqae, a French religious of the visitation, who lived in the seventeenth century.

4. Why were these devotions revealed in these later times '?

To revive the fervor of Christians, by presenting for their love the most amiable and loving of hearts.

5. What is the spirit of this devotion?

1st, To honor by an unbounded gratitude and devotedness the infinite love of the Heart of Jesus for men, especially ia the Holy Eucharist; 2d, to repair by all possible means, the outrages to which his love exposed him during his mortal life and still exposes him every day in the Holy Sacrament.

6. What are the principal fruits of this devotion?

Aa ardent love for the Saviour, and graces innumerable, are tfee fruit and recompense of this devotion

7. What is the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart?

It is an association, approved by the church, m

honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to which many indulgences are attached. The prayers to be recited, are the Our Father, Hail Mart/ and the Creed every day, with the following aspiration, or any other of similar import:

0! Heart of Jesus, at each instant in the day Increase the fire of thy love in my soul.