Illustration: LITURGY
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Thursday Within The Octave Of The Sacred Heart.
Feast Of The Eucharistic Heart Of Jesus.
in some Religious Congregations
and in some places).
White Vestments.
Mass: Sciens Jesus.
Creed: Is Said.
Preface: Of The Sacred Heart.
The Holy Eucharist is the most manifest proof of Christ’s love for man. It is the love of God for His creatures stretched to its utmost limits.
It is the Memorial of The Passion.
It is the love of Christ in all His Mysteries applied every day to our Souls by Our Lord, Himself, really present all over the World.
We can understand, therefore, why The Church Venerates in a special manner The Sacred Heart in this manifestation of love which includes all others.
“The chief reason of this Feast,” which has a Proper Mass and Office, “is to Commemorate,” says the Decree of Institution (Benedict XV, 9 November 1921) “the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Mystery of the Eucharist.
“ By this means, The Church wishes more and more to excite The Faithful to approach this Sacred Mystery with confidence, and to inflame their hearts with that Divine Charity which consumed The Sacred Heart of Jesus, when, in His infinite love, He instituted The Most Holy Eucharist, wherein The Divine Heart guards and loves them by living with them, as they live and abide in Him.
“For, in The Sacrament of The Holy Eucharist, He offers and gives Himself to us as Victim, Companion, Nourishment, Viaticum, and Pledge of our future glory.”
Catholic Holy Card
depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Date: 1880.
Auguste Martin collection,
University of Dayton Libraries.
Source: Turgis.
Author: Turgis.
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