Year: 1873




speak, this superabundance OF the love
Jesus Christ maniiests anc entertains for Us The
for love- that should be universal in its character
embracing all the faculties OF our MINDS and OF our
hearts Al our thoughts and all the powers OF our
body. This love should be as IL were divine
love-that Is To say, love which was superni-
man-which would control everything Ia our
actions and thoughts, which would bring every
thing under its rule every interest We have IN the
world. every motion OF our bodies. TINS, inueeu'
was


THE RETURN GOD EXPECTED


al our hands. Ii was, in other words, the golden
cham which unltes the soul and heart Oh man
sia 'I robe' % that spotess IS garment with watch We
must be clothed before We are admitted TO De par
takers OF the banquet OF tne aSrs % srea prIce FOR
which we must be prepared to sacrlnce al the
treasures OF this world not only put 70 give W our
| very lives. We had had thousands OF exam-
pies OF this nature where persons OF tender
age, situated amid the same difficulties we have to
than abandon the right. had given up their lives.
It was in order TO strengthen, extend and confirm
TINS love OF God in their hearts that the Catholics
In the diocese-by the Most Reverend Archbishop.
with the full appreciation OF His Holiness Popc Plus
the Ninth who now happily relgns over the
Church-to consecrate and dedicate their whole
hearts, all the affections OF their souls every
power OF their soul and body and all the interests
oi their lie, TO the sacred Heart OF Jesus. 1t was
not necessary TO explain, much less 10 denne, the
proprety OF sacn an ac a ceeNeu t tss IN
the human and divne-and that these two natures
are SO united, as theology terms It, by an hypo-
static union, as TO be lndissoluple, and must last
and continue so


UNITED FOR ALL ETERNITY,


so that, from the very time OF the incarnation OF
the Divine Word in the chaste WOMB OF the blessed
Virgin, whose glorious immaculate conception we
were celebrating that very day, on and on lor all
eternity would this divine and human nature con-
tinue SO united absolutely inseparable IN It's en-
tirety or any part thereof This was, OF course, q
enrey os OUR a but the
same time not beyond the comprehension or our
reason; Tor had we not In our own bodies two ma
lures entirely distinct one from the other, our
ordinary bodies made Of the dust OF the earth, and
susceptible, therefore, OF decay; aud our soul
wnch is a spirit which did not originate in dust
and win never die It was an article OF divln
faith that We were at perfect liberty to pay the
highest honors to the human nature OF Jesus christ
and in doing We worshfpped the Godhead, because
the human and the divine nature oil Christ are In
separable Admitting, as we must, this doctrine OF
pious contemplations to any portion OF the per-
son OF Jesus Christ which We might have special
deyotion ior without aorogatng the nonors que y.
Augustine saying to us, "Ihe side OF Jesus Christ
was opened for me by lance, and entered in and
abode in the sacred heart as IN place OF safe
refuge.n Here we found st. Augustine's piety-his
name carries US back more than twelve hundred
stsd 81 hs in the sds Of our
he entered and made his abode IN the sacred heart
ITSELF What pious emotions ought to arise In the
hearts OF Christians in contemplating the heart OF
the blessed Lord 1t may be adOred by some who
make 1t q special devotion to contemplate IL



the world; again, by others vino contemplate the
hands bound to the pillar, or the sacred feet
pierced with nails and fastened TO the hard wood
to any particular portion or the body OF Christ
an act OF divine alteration and divine worship, and
there was no possibility that in thus adoring and
worshipping one part OF the body we departed in
any degree from the Catholic iaith. While we were
at liberty TO direct our devotion to any one par
ticuar part we chose there should be no doubt at
ali in the minds OF dev0ut Christians that the de-
votion to the sacred heart was not an acc OF


WORSHIP OF CHRIST HIMSELF


and that they could 60 to it as to an overfowing
fountain OF divine Lord as the seat oi all mercy or,
as St. Augustin calls t. "a sale refuge" In our
gers that spring from the corrupt maxims OF the
world, and oltener from the weakness OF
iondy to the sacred heart OF Jesus, for
We are accustomed to consider the heart as the
seat OF our directions and all the emotions OF the
human being We should go to this heart OF our
blessed Lord, which felt every blow indicted on His
sacred person. 1t was this heart that was out
ragged by the buets Of the raDble 1t was this heart
which bled for US on the cross, that poured forth
the last drop OF blood for the redemption OF the
and IN Jerusalem wept over the world lying in
misery and sin; ir was this heart which, in the
garden the night before the crucn xion shed drops
rs the scriptures tell u.s. bloody sweat, which
proceeded not from any suffering He then endured
which weighed upon Him at the thought that in
spite OF His sufierlngs Tor mankind so many would
remain hard OF heart in the ranks OIL the evil one,


FALL INTO ETERNAL pERDIrIoS.


No wonder then, that the Church and her de-
voted children now turn with affection and conf
dence to adore the heart OF our suffering Lord.
The worship OF the sacred heart had been the prac-
tice at all times in the Church, although II had not
assumed that formality she now exhibited. We
found that societies existed for the express and
exclusive object OF the worship OF the sacred heart
existed 200 years ago. in France, in Poland, In Italy
and even in England, although there at that distant
date the Church was weighed down with persecu-
ton and even in faithful Ireland over 200 years ago
petitions were addressed to the Holy See asking
that special indulgences might be granted to those
who associated themselves together In societies de-
voted TO the worship Of the sacred heart OF .Je-
sus. In 1865 Pope Clement XIII. issued q
bull not only authorizing this culture, but
the doctrine, and ne established special ofnces and
q special mass In honor OF the sacred heart, and
Of Corpus christi In our own day In this enSht
ened age as IL Is called this nineteenth century,
when everything that Is holy and sacred Is at
tackled; when IN the name OF liberty, which Is no
longer used In its proper signincation. the most
sacred rights and institutions OF society are not
free from attack, and are even in danger OF
Is being said about the extension OF general educae
tion as II the cultivation OF the mind would i'm
prove the heart OF man or correct his morals; in
this day when the rights OF the Pope, which in
point OF time antedate all other sovereign rights,
which were regulated by the free will OF his sub
jects, have been taken away-in this day, when
intrigue OF willy statesmen and injustice In high
places mad iull sway, we should indeed direct our
minds 10 the worship OF the sacred heart OF Jesus.
We had already heard tell OF pilgrmages in differ
ent parts OF Europe-and made wheres To the
shrine OF an humble religious OF the Order OF the
Visitation In France, who in the midst OF her re-
tirement in the convent was made


THE INSTRUMENT or GOD TO TURN THE HEARTS OF
MEN


towards his sacred heart-the shrine OF the blessed
Mary Margaret We had seen the accounts IN the
newspapers OF the pigrimages made to this shrine,
and whence were they made? Even from England
itself. When that holy woman lived, 200 years ago,
the bishops OF the Church were being driven away
the priests banished and threatened with death II
they attempted to return; the property OF the
vents was taken from Its rightul owners and the
enemies OF the Church boldly b0asted that the
name OF Catholicty was extinct Now we heard OF
over 700 gentlemen Of England OF the highest rank
boldly and publicly,


BEFORE THE GAZE OF THE scoPPERs,


going on pilgrimage, crossing the channel, meet
ing al an early hour in q little chapel In Paris TO
hear mass, and never stopping until they had
reached the shrine OF Mary Margaret. They were
not afraid OF the scofIers, and this Of Itself was
striking sign Of the gradual return OF the English
as natIon Into the Catholic Church.


The reverend preacher then closed by earnestly
exh0rting his hearers TO give their hearts In the
act OF conservation they were To make wholly to
a