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The Love of the Sacred Heart a Series for Special Spiritual Reading THE LOVE of the StdC^ED THE LOVE OF THE SACRED HEART A SERIES FOR SPECIAL SPIRITUAL READING I. THE LOVE OF THE SACRED HEART. Illustrated by St. MARGARET MARY and the Blessed JOHN EUDES. " A book of much value to Religious and others, and it is certainly calculated to promote devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus." Messenger of the Sacred Heart. " A valuable guide and stimulus to perfection through charity." Month. II. THE LOVE OF THE SACRED HEART. Illustrated by St. GERTRUDE. " An admirable work." Irish Independent. 11 A welcome addition to the Catholic private devo tional library." Catholic Women s League Magazine. III. THE LOVE OF THE SACRED HEART. Illustrated by St. MECHTILDE. The Love of the Sacred Heart Illustrated by ST. MECHTILDE With a Foreword by the LORD BISHOP OF SALFORD LONDON Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 28 ORCHARD STREET 8-10 PATERNOSTER ROW W. i E - c - 4 . AND AND . AT . MANCHESTER BIRMINGHAM . GLASGOW 1922 DEC -3 1952 NIHIL OBSTAT : G. H. JOYCE, S.J. Censor Deputatus. IMPRIMATUR : EDM. CAN. SURMONT, Vicarius Gcneralis. WESTMONASTBRU, Die 6 His Apr t 1922. FOREWORD lovers of the Sacred Heart were delighted to A,Lsee in the year of grace 1920 the long wished for canonization of Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), whom God raised up in recent centuries to revive the fire of devotion to the divine Heart of our Lord, which had well-nigh been extinguished by the frost and drought of the Jansenist heresy. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is too often spoken of and thought " " of as a modern devotion, and in one sense it is such. The life-work of St. Margaret Mary has not only given that sweetest of devotions a much greater vogue and a deeper intensity throughout the world, but it has even in our own times led to still further and wider develop ments, such as the beautiful and providential practice, whose world-wide spread we owe to the blessing and encouragement of Pope Pius X I mean the Enthrone ment of the Sacred Heart in the home, which, thank God, is becoming yearly more popular in our own country. But the present book will show that in another sense the devotion is by no means "modern." As will be seen, the first part consists of copious translations from the marvellous mystical revelations of a lover of the Sacred Heart of a much earlier century, the Benedictine nun St. Mechtilde (1241-1298), whose enraptured utterances surpass in some respects those of her better known friend vi FOREWORD and disciple the great St. Gertrude, and whose signifi cance as the type of mystic theology has been immor talized by Dante in his mighty epic.* It will not fail to be observed how extraordinarily similar a great deal of the inspired language and profound imagery of the Saint of the thirteenth century is to that of the one who was canonized last year; although I am not aware that there is evidence of Margaret Mary having been a student of the works of her illustrious predecessor. It is surely both significant and instructive that our divine Lord deigned to make known the mysteries and treasures of the unfathomable abyss of His divine Love in a manner so similar, often identical, to two of His chosen spouses, at an interval of several centuries. The pious translator of the following treatises, however, very truly remarks that in the revelations of the earlier of these Saints, the mystic doctrines of the Sacred Heart are presented more especially for the guidance and edification of the chosen few, especially of the inmates of the cloister, called to the more hidden life. On the other hand, the cult of the Sacred Heart in these last three centuries has become, and is becoming daily more and more, the common property of all the children of the Church, of the laity as well as of the clergy and the religious, of the working man and woman as well as of the theologian, and even of the little children as well as of Christians of mature years. And that recent form of it to which I have alluded above the Enthronement in the home, whether the palace or the cottage has further widened it to become the * The Matelda of Purgatorio, xxxiii. 118. FOREWORD vii property and the privilege not merely of the individual soul, but of the whole Christian family. May every reader of these pages pray for her who in the midst of grave sickness and pain during her last illness compiled them out of her abounding love to the Sacred Heart of our Blessed Lord. LOUIS CHARLES, Bishop vf Salford. OCTAVE OF THE EPIPHANY, 1922 CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD - - - - V INTRODUCTORY : THE REVELATIONS TO ST. MECHTILDE CHAPTER I. THE BOOK OF SPECIAL GRACE I II. LIFE OF ST. MECHTILDE 5 - in. ST. MECHTILDE S MISSION 9 THE SACRED HEART WHILE ON EARTH - I. LOVE! THE REASON OF THE INCARNATION 12 - II. LOVE ALWAYS LEADS TO JESUS 15 III. THE FOUR BEATINGS OF THE SACRED HEART - l6 IV. THE SOLICITUDE OF THE SACRED HEART FOR - THE SALVATION OF SOULS IJ v. GOOD WORDS: WITNESSES OF THE LOVE OF THE - - SACRED HEART 19 VI. THE TEARS OF OUR LORD - - 21 VII. THE HEART OF JESUS AND THE WELL-BELOVED - APOSTLE 24 ix x CONTENTS CHATTER PAGE VIII. THE EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE HEART OF JESUS AND OUR HEARTS - 26 IX. HOW OUR LORD PIERCED MAGDALEN S HEART DURING THE PASSION - 28 X. THE SACRED HEART AT THE TIME OF OUR - - - LORD S DEATH 32 XI. THE GLORIFICATION OF THE SACRED HEART - 34 XII. PRAISE AND SUPPLICATION : THE FIVE JOYS OF THE HEART OF JESUS IN HIS RESURREC TION - -38 XIII. LOVE BROUGHT BACK THE SON OF GOD TO HEAVEN - 40 THE DEALINGS OF THE SACRED HEART WITH MEN XIV. THE SACRED HEART MEDIATES BETWEEN GOD AND MAN - 42 XV. IN WHAT MANNER THE SACRED HEART EXER CISES THE OFFICE OF MEDIATOR TOWARDS us - - 45 XVI. THE SACRED HEART IS THE SOURCE OF THE DIVINE LIFE WHICH WE RECEIVE IN BAPTISM 49 XVII. THE MEANS OF LEADING A CHRISTIAN LIFE - MUST BE SOUGHT IN THE SACRED HEART 53 xvin. MARY S ASSISTANCE WITH THE SACRED HEART 55 CONTENTS xi CHAPTER PAGE XIX. THE CHURCH ENSHRINED IN THE SACRED - HEART "59 XX. THE SACRED HEART AND SINNERS - 6l XXI. THE SACRED HEART A PERPETUAL VICTIM 62 XXII. IN HEAVEN THE SACRED HEART IS STILL THE HEART OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD - 63 XXIII. THE INVITATIONS GIVEN BY THE SACRED HEART TO THOSE WHO WISH TO DEVOTE THEM SELVES TO ITS SERVICE - - 66 XXIV. WHAT THE SACRED HEART WISHES TO BE FOR US - 68 XXV. THE SACRED HEART IS THE SOURCE OF FERVOUR JO XXVI. THE SACRED HEART AND ITS UNION WITH SOULS J2 XXVII. CONSECRATED SOULS: THEIR VOCATION - 76 XXVIII. THE TIME OF TRIAL - 78 XXIX. TEPIDITY - 8O XXX. THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUE - - 83 XXXI. THE RENEWAL OF OUR FIRST FERVOUR - 86 XXXII. THE SACRED HEART SHOULD BE THE ONLY TREASURE OF A RELIGIOUS - QO XXXIII. A RELIGIOUS BELOVED BY THE SACRED HEART IS - A TREASURE IN A COMMUNITY "93 XXXIV. THE SACRED HEART AND THE PREACHERS OF - THE GOSPEL "95 xii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XXXV. THE SACRED HEART AND THOSE WHO SUFFER 96 XXXVI. THE SACRED HEART WISHES TO CONSOLE THOSE - - WHO SUFFER - 98 XXXVIII. THE SACRED HEART AND PURGATORY - IQJ XXXIX. THE SACRED HEART AND HEAVEN - - 113 XL. OUR DUTY TOWARDS THE SACRED HEART: DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART - 115 XLI. THE ADORATION OF THE SACRED HEART - 117 XLII. THE OFFERING OF OUR HEARTS - - 119 XLIII. THE OUTPOURINGS OF THE HEART - - 122 XLIV. REPARATION FOR SIN - 125 XLV. THANKSGIVING - 129 XLVI. CONFIDENCE - 13! XLVII. ORDINARY ACTIONS DONE IN UNION WITH THE SACRED HEART - - 134 XLVIII. DIVINE PRAISE - - 138 XLIX. THE SACRED HEART ITSELF TRAINS MECHTILDE - - IN DIVINE PRAISE 14! L. THE INTENTIONS OF THE HEART OF JESUS IN - DIVINE PRAISE - 144 LI. THE SACRED HEART AND CONFESSION - 146 LII. ON PURITY OF CONSCIENCE - - 15! LIII. THE SACRED HEART AND HOLY MASS - 154 CONTENTS xiii CHAPTER pAGE LIV. INVITATION TO HOLY - COMMUNION 159 LV. PREPARATION FOR HOLY COMMUNION - l6l LVI. THE FIVE HAIL MARYS BEFORE HOLY COM - MUNION ift* LVII. OF DRYNESS IN RECEIVING HOLY COM MUNION - jgr LVIII. THE FRUIT OF HOLY - - COMMUNION l6/ The Love of the Sacred Heart The Archives of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary INTRODUCTORY THE REVELATIONS TO ST. MECHTILDE CHAPTER I " THE BOOK OF SPECIAL GRACE Revelations of St. Mechtilde are contained in THEa book entitled The Book of Special Grace. This book was written almost entirely without her knowledge, and is based on the recitation of her com munications with our divine Master. Two of the Saint s companions, of whom St. Gertrude was one, had arranged together to write it. It was nearly finished when St. Mechtilde became aware of it. While she was hearing Mass a mysterious voice made one of the culprits known to her and at the same time asked her this question: " What shall be her reward for what she has written ?" Very much astonished St. Mechtilde asked her friend if she had been in the habit of writing down what she told her. She, not wanting to acknowledge it, made some excuse, telling the Saint to ask our Lord about it. St. Mechtilde, having thus been made aware of the truth, was so grieved as to be inconsolable.
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