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The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque – Book Review

By kim | Published: 24 November 2012

This book could be described as a love affair. A love affair, filled with passion, intimacy, sincerity, devotion and strength. For the 142 letters contained within this volume have come from the pen of someone truly in love – yet someone who, through that state of being ‘in love’, shares that love with each person [...]

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Father Mateo-Crawley Boevey and the Sacred Heart in the Home and the World

By roger | Published: 14 October 2012

  The Chapel of the Apparitions, Paray-le-Monial.   Last week, we offered extracts from my upcoming book regarding the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This week we simply follow with another extract continuing from before: There are many aspects of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart, but I should like now to focus on the simple fact [...]

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Feast of the Sacred Heart III

By kim | Published: 14 June 2012

  We approach the Feast of the Sacred Heart. In order to prepare ourselves, let us consider the history that gave birth to this great Feast. It is the Third Apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque that is relevant here. Known as the Great Revelation, this Third Apparition took place in [...]

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Valentin Tomberg, Catholic France and the Sacred Heart – More Very Personal Reflexions Part V

By roger | Published: 10 June 2012

I have been writing here, a very personal series of reflexions, uncomfortably personal … I want to start picking up the threads now and drawing to a close in the next two or three entries. At the heart of this little series has been my own painful struggle with modernity. The crisis of our modern [...]

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Feast of the Sacred Heart II

By kim | Published: 1 July 2011

Last year, Roger wrote at length about the Feast of the Sacred Heart – so nearly forgotten by the post Vatican II Church. This year, I would simply like to say: Praise be to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus – burning with love and mercy for each and every one of us, every moment [...]

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Symbols and Imagery in the Sacred Heart Devotion (Part III)

By roger | Published: 6 May 2011

In this series, we have been regarding the birth of the public cult of the Sacred Heart at the very beginning of the modern era. We have seen how Valentin Tomberg regarded this as an intervention from Heaven to combat the emergence of rationalism – and the materialism that followed in the wake of rationalism. [...]

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Symbols and Imagery in the Sacred Heart Devotion (Part II)

By roger | Published: 3 April 2011

We have remarked last time that from the beginning of the modern era, following the Renaissance and Reformation, the Catholic countries across the world began to be awash in images of His Sacred Heart – in churches, monasteries, schools and private homes. The call even went forth to place it on the flags of whole [...]

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Partaking in His Fatal Sadness

By kim | Published: 6 March 2011

Saint Margaret Mary before the Sacred Heart – from Tuam Cathedral, Ireland. Design: Joshua Clarke. Photograph courtesy Andreas F. Borchert under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. The practice of praying the Holy Hour began with the words Our Lord spoke to St Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial, when He said: “Every Thursday night, I shall give you a [...]

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Book Review: The Life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque by Emile Bougaud

By roger | Published: 1 November 2010

In English, there are two books, which seem to me the most essential for understanding the traditions around the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The first is that admirable compendium of the Tradition Heart of the Redeemer by Timothy T. O’ Donnell, which I have already reviewed here. The second is this: The Life of Saint [...]

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Feast of St Margaret Mary Alacoque

By roger | Published: 17 October 2010

On the 17th October 1690, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque would die. And this is the day of her feast … O St Margaret Mary, you were the instrument for a work that has changed my life beyond words. For you obeyed your calling and you were guided by Our Lord to a convent of the [...]

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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Origins of the Cult of the Sacred Heart

By roger | Published: 21 April 2010

By Hieronymus Noldin S.J. Saint Margaret Mary before the Sacred Heart – from Tuam Cathedral, Ireland. Design: Joshua Clarke. Photograph courtesy Andreas F. Borchert under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. Introductory Remarks: This account of the origins of the Cult of the Sacred Heart is taken from The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus written by [...]

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