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Sentiment or Devotion

A study of the Encyclical Haurietis Aquas in Gaudio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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August the 23rd of this year marks the centenary of the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites by which Pius IX instituted the feast of the Sacred Heart as a common feast for the whole Church. His successor Pius XII takes this opportunity to write his latest encyclical letter in order to explain and defend what has become such a popular devotion of the faithful during the past century. But it is a devotion which has had a much longer history than that, as the Pope is at pains to prove; indeed he here maintains that fundamentally it is an ancient and traditional devotion of the faithful, the only thing new about it being the new form it has taken on during the past three centuries owing to the influence of certain holy men and women. It is this new form which gives reason for the apologetic or defensive character of the encyclical.

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Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

page 101 note 1 La devotion au Sacré Coeur de Jesus. Paris 1906). See also his article in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

page 108 note 1 This usage is not universal. The Semites, and the Bible bears witness to this, considered the heart of man to be the seat not of the affections but of the intelligence. 'Son, give me thy heart' means 'Listen to me, my of the son'. Out of the heart, says Our Lord, proceed evil thoughts. When St Paul tells his beloved Philippians that he has them in his heart he is assuring them of his continual remembrance of them. He tells the Corinthians that they are his epistle, 'written not on tablets of stone but on the fleshly tablets of (my) heart'. 'Man shall come to a deep heart' refers to meeting with snares laid by a crafty mind, as Psalm 63 makes abundantly clear. The 'clean of heart' are the pure-minded.