{"title":"Sacred Heart of Jesus","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-secret-of-the-heart","title":"The Secret of the Heart","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Secret of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e presents an eloquent summary of St. Catherine of Siena’s spiritual teaching on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Flowing from her intimate relationship with Christ, and bolstered by her prodigious intellectual prowess, St. Catherine’s theology has at its crux the immense and inexpressible love of God for mankind. The heart, as Sr. Mary Jeremiah, O.P., states, “is the treasure house containing all her favorite images.” As such, St. Catherine sees the heart of Jesus in particular as a manifestation, an incarnation, of the Creator’s infinite love for his creatures and his desire to be united with them for eternity. A crucial witness to the centrality of devotion to the Sacred Heart in the life of the Church and her saints, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Secret of the Heart \u003c\/em\u003ealso charts the historical influence of Catherinian spirituality and its particular effect on Pius XII’s historic encyclical, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaurietis Aquas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay your refuge be Christ crucified, my only-begotten Son, living and hiding in the cavern of his open side. There you will taste my divine nature in the human nature, by means of the affection of love. In that open heart you will find charity for me and for your neighbor.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThoroughly researched and lovingly written, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Secret of the Heart \u003c\/em\u003estands as a worthy testament to St. Catherine of Siena and the visionary theology which earned her the title of Doctor of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Jeremiah, O.P.,\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Dominican nun of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus, in Lufkin, Texas. In addition to \u003cem\u003eThe Secret of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, she is the author of numerous articles and the translator of \u003cem\u003eA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLife for Unity\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eSister Maria Gabriella,\u003c\/em\u003e by Paul B. Quattrocchi, and \u003cem\u003eThings Visible and Invisible: Images in the Spirituality of St. Catherine of Siena\u003c\/em\u003e, by Giuliana Cavallini, O.P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1952826610\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ClunyMedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39490677047453,"sku":"978-1952826610","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--451.jpg?v=1618223255"},{"product_id":"the-admirable-heart-of-mary","title":"The Admirable Heart of Mary","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy St. John Eudes | Translated by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCharles di Targiani and Ruth Hauser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Admirable Heart of Mary \u003c\/b\u003ewas the first book written on the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Saint John Eudes, whom Pope Pius XI called “a wonderful herald of eternal truths,” was the leading proponent in the seventeenth century of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary; he wrote the propers to the Mass and Divine Office for the devotion as well as composing litanies, salutations, and consecrations for its practice. In \u003ci\u003eThe Admirable Heart of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e, Eudes develops a spiritual treatise on the nature, object, and expressions of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the saint’s inspired fashion, he makes the sublime truths of revelation and tradition simple, familiar, and practical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo speak and write worthily of the holy Heart of God’s own Mother one would need a heart of fire. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSaint John Eudes)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTranslated from the French by Charles di Targiani and Ruth Hauser and published as the lead volume in the \u003ci\u003eSelected Works of Saint John Eudes \u003c\/i\u003ein 1948, \u003ci\u003eThe Admirable Heart of Mary \u003c\/i\u003eis a classic work of Catholic spiritual literature, in which he lays—in the words of Pope Benedict XVI—“a path of holiness…founded on steadfast trust in the love that God had revealed to humanity in the priestly Heart of Christ and in the maternal Heart of Mary.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaint John Eudes \u003c\/b\u003e(1601–1690) was a French Catholic priest and founder of two religious orders: the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge and the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. Preacher of countless parish retreats, advocate for seminarian formation, and dedicated confessor, he made the supreme achievement of his exemplary priesthood the promotion of the devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 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McGratty, S.J.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDevotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus \u003c\/b\u003eis a relatively late arrival to the list of Catholic spiritual practices, only beginning formally in the late seventeenth century. Three centuries before, St. Gertrude had had a vision of St. John the Evangelist, who assured her that the divine reasoning for the delayed revelation of the Sacred Heart devotion was so it might be given when the world, grown older and colder, might “recover some warmth of the divine love.” As the seventeenth century drew to an end, that providential plan came to fruition. Into the soil prepared and cultivated in the Middle Ages by St. Bernard, St. Gertrude, and St. Bonaventure, the apparitions of Christ to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque planted the devotion, where it took root and quickly burst into flower, tended to reverently and steadfastly by its champion, St. John Eudes. In the centuries since, the devotion has enjoyed such success that Pope Pius XI could declare that the devotion to “the Sacred Heart is the very epitome of our religion, and opens the way to a more perfect life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLearn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart.\u003c\/em\u003e” (Matthew 11:29)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eJesus, meek and humble of heart, make our heart like unto Thy Heart.\u003c\/em\u003e” (The Roman Breviary)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eTreating his subject with love and honor, Arthur R. McGratty, S.J., records a story of \u003ci\u003ecor ad cor loquitur\u003c\/i\u003e—the Sacred Heart speaking to every human heart and inviting each to draw near the altar of the world’s desire. First published in 1951, \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Heart: Yesterday and Today \u003c\/i\u003edistills the abundant fruit of a venerable devotion into a refreshing blend of historical interest and spiritual inspiration.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur R. McGratty, S.J. \u003c\/b\u003e(1909–1976) was an American Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus. 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