The sacred heart was, and is, a significant symbol in Christianity and its pre ... Passion [the short final period before the death of Jesus]. However, the pre-modern "wounded heart" eventually ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart ... one God, . . . Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal ...

For all mankind, it is a symbol of love. In the Book of Deuteronomy we are ... the feast was given a more suitable place on the day following the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That is the ...