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Theology of the Cultus of the Sacred Heart (Volume 10); A Moral, Dogmatic and Historical Study

Theology of the Cultus of the Sacred Heart (Volume 10); A Moral, Dogmatic and Historical Study

Petrovits, Joseph Julius Charles

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ISBN10: 0217901115
ISBN13: 9780217901116
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV BASIS OF THE DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART In different periods of history mankind frequently experienced certain spiritual and material needs. To alleviate the burden of these needs God selected certain exceptional men and assigned them to a specified calling. One of the most noble missions, with which God vouchsafed to favor the children of men, was that of St. John the Baptist. St. John the Evangelist describes it in simple, but very graphic language. This man, he says, came for a witness, to give testimony of the light . . . which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. 1 This Light of the World, of whose fullness we have all received, became the life of the world; not only by the part He played in the act of creation and redemption, but also in having diffused the light of true knowledge. True knowledge, especially since the New Testament, is the moral life of the soul. It is in this sense that we are to expound the words of St. Paul directed to the Ephesians for you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of light.2 The Light of the World, through His death, accomplished our Redemption. Therefore, He has a right to expect a reasonable service.3 A reasonable service referred to a determined cult, implies three things, viz., a sufficient warrant for the worship, a familiarity with the reasons and nature of the devotion, and a proper use of the means whereby it is to be rendered. No devotion is officially approved by the Church without the first. To familiarize ourselves with the motives which ought to actuate us in a cult which we prac- 1/o/m I. 7-8. 1Ephes. V. 8. Rom., XII. 1.tise, is a duty incumbent on all. The practice and discipline of the Church, combined with a good judgment, will guard us agains...

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