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Our Shepherds Heart 15TH CENTURY SACRED HEART PRAYER 2 STUDIES ON GOOD SHEPHERD HERITAGE OUR SHEPHERD'S HEART A STUDY ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND THE HOLY HEART OF MARY IN GOOD SHEPHERD SPIRITUALITY By Rose-Virginie Warnig, R.G.S. Project of the Cincinnati Province Sisters of the Good Shepherd 2849 Fischer Place Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 1987 3 STUDIES ON GOOD SHEPHERD HERITAGE I ONLY LOVED Symposium, 150th anniversary of Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1985 Rose-Virginie Warnig, R.G.S., Cincinnati Province Nora Dennehy, R.G.S., Washington, D.C. Province Rosaria Baxter, R.G.S., Washington, D.C. Province ALSO, I VOW ZEAL Part I - Fourth Vow Part II - The Constitutions Rose-Virginie Warnig, R.G.S., Cincinnati Province Marjorie Hamilton, R.G.S., Ed., St. Paul Province OUR SHEPHERD'S HEART is dedicated in gratitude to all the Good Shepherd Sisters who have so kindly encouraged me to undertake writing what is in my heart of our rich heritage. A special expression of acknowledgment and gratitude goes to the members of the Province Spiritual Life Commission, who have worked together with me for several years to provide means of spiritual development to our sisters. These booklets are part of our common effort: Sister Alena Bernert, assiduous and generous proof-reader, artist, lay-out, and printer contacts, Sister Mary Komar, first revision of this manuscript, Sister Monica Nowak, ingenious provider of typists for the manuscripts. My special recognition and thanks go to Sister Marjorie Hamilton, of the Saint Paul Province, final editor of the manuscripts. Sister Rose-Virginie Warnig, RGS 4 OUR SHEPHERD'S HEART A Study on Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Heart of Mary In Good Shepherd Spirituality This study was originally presented at a 1986 workshop for sisters in formation, as well as those in formation and vocation ministries in the Good Shepherd Congregation in the United States and English-speaking Canada. Biblical aspects of the themes have not been included in this book but are available in manuscript form. It is our hope that this beginning will stimulate a deeper study of our rich Good Shepherd heritage and its meaning for our vitality in these times and the future. Publication approved by Sr. M. Gema Cadena, Superior General, in letter of December 16, 1986 5 OUR SHEPHERD'S HEART A Study on Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Heart of Mary In Good Shepherd Spirituality 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEVOTION 9 The developmental treatment of the devotion, from the earliest ages of the Church through Saint John Eudes and Saint Mary Euphrasia to the present era Chapter II MEANING, OBJECT AND AIM OF THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY 25 Saint John Eudes' intuition and doctrine of the devotion and his vision of our response. The basics of his devotion Chapter III DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY IN THE SPIRIT OF SAINT MARY EUPHRASIA PELLETIER 41 Our recent expression of the devotion in the 1985 edition of our Constitutions. Saint Mary Euphrasia's mystical insight and the development of the devotion as she discerned her personal charism Chapter IV DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS TODAY 62 The devotion today in Church teaching, especially the teaching of Pope Pius XII, other similar devotions. What the doctrine of Saint John Eudes and living the spirituality of Saint Mary Euphrasia may mean to us today 7 8 Chapter I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEVOTION "With joy you will draw water at the fountain of salvation" Isaiah 12:3 INTRODUCTION The roots of our spirituality in the Good Shepherd Congregation go deeply into that of a seventeenth century saint, Father John Eudes, founder of the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1666. Good Shepherd Sisters are an off-shoot of his creation. The foundress of the Good Shepherd Congregation, Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, greatly treasured the aspect of Eudist heritage we are contemplating: devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Like all devotions in the Church, the formal expression of that to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary developed very gradually as contemplatives and saints, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, gained more insight into the mystery of God's love. It usually takes centuries for a new devotion to develop and to spread. A fresh intuition of a previously unnoticed mystery of Christ's life becomes for the saints an incentive toward a special devotion, according to the light and grace they receive from the Holy Spirit. They then begin to live this themselves. As they find that it increases their spiritual strength, courage and love, they are drawn to share it with others, and the devotion springs up here and there. It develops and spreads in the measure that its object, aim and purpose become increasingly clear, for every devotion approved by the Church has a definite object and end. and must rest upon the solid ground of scripture. 9 IN THE EARLY CHURCH We can safely say that all the tender effusions of love which characterized the devotions of Christians even in the earliest ages of the Church, foreshadowed the formal devotion to the Heart of Jesus as we know it. For, from earliest days Christians have considered the love of God made manifest in the Incarnation of the Son of God, and our redemption through his pascal mystery, the central theme, the very core of all Christian devotion. This was expressed in love for God and love for one another. These elements form the very basis of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. However, there is no indication that the Heart of Jesus was ever specifically considered THE SYMBOL or THE SEAT of God's love. Nor was the Heart of Jesus considered to be the symbol of the divine-human love of Jesus for his Father and for humanity. Very early, Christians understood that the piercing of the Heart of Christ on the cross had a deep and mysterious meaning beyond a mere physical wound. From being a symbol of the origin of the Church and of Christ's love for the Church, the Wounded Heart of Jesus in its deeper meaning became a subject of meditation for the Fathers of the Church. Contemplatives and masters of the spiritual life began to focus on the Wounded Heart of Christ, and in doing so found great spiritual rewards. They associated this with devotion to the Wounds of Christ. In the Middle Ages this developed into devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St. Bonaventure, the mystics St. Mechtilde and St. Gertrude, St. Brigid, the pious Carthusian Lanspergius, the Venerable Abbot of Blois, and others shed much light upon the theory and the practice of devotion to the Heart of Christ. However, it remained a private devotion. Its aim and object were not yet fully recognized or expressed. ST. JOHN EUDES, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY It was Father John Eudes' mission to further this devotion by incorporating it into the public worship of the Church. It began to be firmly established in the Church, therefore, only in the late seventeenth century. During Father Eudes' lifetime it was restricted to France although he greatly desired it to be universal. (1) Father Eudes was declared AUTHOR of the liturgical worship of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary by Pope Leo XIII in 1903. In 1909 Pope Pius X, who beatified him, declared Father Eudes FATHER, DOCTOR AND APOSTLE of this devotion. 10 Public devotion to the Holy Heart of Mary preceeded public devo- tion to the Heart of Jesus. In 1641 Father Eudes composed the first liturgical Office and Liturgy of the Eucharist in honor of the Heart of Mary. The first public liturgical feast was celebrated in the diocese of Autun on February 8, 1648, twenty-four years before that of the Heart of Jesus. Therefore, Mary prepared the way for public devotion to the Heart of Jesus. During the ensuing years Father Eudes studied and meditated on the earliest devotions to the Wounds and Wounded Heart of Christ Jesus. H.; drew from the writings of the mystics, the Fathers of the Church and from scripture in elaborating his doctrine and method of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. With the approval of several bishops of France the solemn feast of the Heart of Jesus was celebrated for the first time on October 20, 1672, using the Office and Eucharistic Liturgy composed by Father Eudes. He made fifteen drafts of these before being satisfied with his work! In reality, Father Eudes had always honored the Heart of Jesus and Mary in the one feast of Mary's Heart. A Vespers anthem for the feast reads, "Let us joyfully sing the praises of the Blessed Heart of the Virgin Mary that by her intercession we may become pleasing to the Heart of her Son." (2) Again, "Blessed is your heart, O Mary. It is the brilliant mirror of the life of Christ Jesus and a perfect image of his passion and death." And again, "O Jesus, Heart of Mary, fire, fount of grace, burn, purify, take possession of everyheart!" (3). Father Eudes sang in one single hymn, "AVE COR SANC- TISSIMUM," the LOVE of the Adorable Heart of Jesus and the LOVE of the Admirable Heart of Mary. The LOVE he praises in both is the very love of Jesus himself. This indicates Father Eudes' profound appreciation of the mystery of sanctification, the mystery of that union in love which transforms and makes us one with God.
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