Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Day 8 #prayer #Catholic

We continue in Haurietis aquas (15 May 1956):

35. The mystery of the divine redemption is primarily and by its very nature a mystery of love, that is, of the perfect love of Christ for His heavenly Father to Whom the sacrifice of the Cross, offered in a spirit of love and obedience, presents the most abundant and infinite satisfaction due for the sins of the human race; “By suffering out of love and obedience, Christ gave more to God than was required to compensate for the offense of the whole human race.”

36. It is also a mystery of the love of the Most Holy Trinity and of the divine Redeemer towards all men. Because they were entirely unable to make adequate satisfaction for their sins, Christ, through the infinite treasure of His merits acquired for us by the shedding of His precious Blood, was able to restore completely that pact of friendship between God and man which had been broken, first by the grievous fall of Adam in the earthly paradise and then by the countless sins of the chosen people.

38. … the love which breathes from the Gospel, from the letters of the Apostles and the pages of the Apocalypse, all of which portray the love of the Heart of Jesus Christ, expresses not only divine love but also human sentiments of love. All who profess themselves Catholics accept this without question. …

40. Nothing, then, was wanting to the human nature which the Word of God united to Himself. Consequently He assumed it in no diminished way, in no different sense in what concerns the spiritual and the corporeal: that is, it was endowed with intellect and will and the other internal and external faculties of perception, and likewise with the desires and all the natural impulses of the senses. All this the Catholic Church teaches as solemnly defined and ratified by the Roman Pontiffs and the general councils. “Whole and entire in what is His own, whole and entire in what is ours.” “Perfect in His Godhead and likewise perfect in His humanity.” “Complete God is man, complete man is God.”

41. Hence, since there can be no doubt that Jesus Christ received a true body and had all the affections proper to the same, among which love surpassed all the rest, it is likewise beyond doubt that He was endowed with a physical heart like ours; for without this noblest part of the body the ordinary emotions of human life are impossible. Therefore the Heart of Jesus Christ, hypostatically united to the divine Person of the Word, certainly beat with love and with the other emotions- but these, joined to a human will full of divine charity and to the infinite love itself which the Son shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit, were in such complete unity and agreement that never among these three loves was there any contradiction of or disharmony. …

44. … Jesus Christ took a perfect human nature and our weak and perishable human body with the object of providing for our eternal salvation, and of revealing to us in the clearest possible manner that His infinite love for us could express itself in human terms. …

53. Granted that the Evangelists and other sacred writers do not explicitly describe the Heart of our Redeemer, living and throbbing like our own with the power of feeling, and ever throbbing with the emotions and affections of His soul and the glowing charity of His twofold will, yet they often set in their proper light His divine love and the sense emotions which accompany it; that is, desire, joy, weakness, fear and anger, as shown by His face, words or gesture. The face of our adorable Savior was especially the guide, and a kind of faithful reflection, of those emotions which moved His soul in various ways and like repeating waves touched His Sacred Heart and excited its beating. …

61. But after His glorified body had been re-united to the soul of the divine Redeemer, conqueror of death, His most Sacred Heart never ceased, and never will cease, to beat with calm and imperturbable pulsations. Likewise, it will never cease to symbolize the threefold love with which He is bound to His heavenly Father and the entire human race, of which He has every claim to be the mystical Head.

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Meanwhile…
Day 9 of 9: http://catholicism.about.com/od/tosaintjoseph/qt/Ancient_Prayer.htm
Day 9 of 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=the4BI8tpmM

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2 Responses to Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Day 8 #prayer #Catholic

  1. Tracy says:

    It’s good to get a fresh way of lonkiog at it.

  2. sinon sweeney2, maintenant que tu le dis, je me souviens également avoir lu le spin off venom ds ce site.ps : Mon vieux Sweeney2 ,Dan se manifeste tellement à la façon M16 mitrailleur qu’il ne tardera pas à me rejoindre aussi niveau nombre de coms, t’inquiète (en effet c moi sous le pseudo ‘dea’ ds la liste des membres. Depuis que g un jour essayé d’autres pseudo comme ça pour changer (et m’amuser)avec le meme mail que mon pseudo San , ce nom -dea- ne veut plus me lâcher ds la liste!lol)

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