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Old Jun 14, '12, 1:21 pm
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Default 6/15 -Feast of the Sacred Heart & World Day of Prayer for Priests

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Tomorrow is the Feast of the Sacred Heart and in 2002, Pope John Paul II initiatied the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests to be celebrated on this Feast.
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On 25th August 1856, Blessed Pope Pius IX inscribed the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart in the Calendar of the Catholic Church, directing that it be celebrated on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) each year. He was responding to a formal request made by Jesus Himself almost two centuries earlier in 1675 to a French Visitation nun, Margaret Mary Alacoque. ...Jesus expressed His wish that the Feast of the Sacred Heart be a day of reparation, not for sins in general, but specifically for sins against the Eucharist which St Albert the Great considered the first gift of the Sacred Heart. This great Dominican teacher of St Thomas Aquinas marvelled at how the institution of the Eucharist was a source of great joy to the Sacred Heart; "His Heart overflowed with love and joy at being completely one with us and filling our hearts with joy and jubilation".
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Hi Friends,

A few months ago I published "Miracles of the Sacred Heart" for Kindle Users:

"Miracles of the Sacred Heart" describes a hundred miracles that were granted by Our Lord for those who take advantage of His generosity and ask Him through His Sacred Heart. The ebook is written to give you encouragement and persistence to your prayer life. Spiritual, physical and financial miracles are described. Great for Catholics and all those who want to know about the promises made about the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Details available at my website: http://www.CatholicChurchSaints.com

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Old Jun 15, '12, 6:03 am
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Dear stjoe4u2,

Thanks for your reply. On other threads I have recommended e-books also and one you may want to consider for your website on saints is this one: The Ordinary Path to Hoiness by R. Thomas Richard.

This is a book for every Catholic who is serious about wanting to become the saint God intended each of us to become. It is good and wholesome to be inspired by books "about" saints lives, and to be inspired by the words of the saints themselves, but it is essential to learn from the Lord how to enter into His Holiness ourselves. We are not called to reproduce the holiness of any other saint, for each of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Our Lady and all the saints show us by their example, and they are inteceding for us with Jesus now before the Father that we become the saints He calls us to be. This book written by a layman is a great help in applying all the wisdom of the Church's teaching on the spiritual life. Saints like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila were all religious, but in this book we see so clearly that holiness is not just for religious and priests but we are all called to holiness. R. Thomas Richard has done a great service to lay persons in particular. His book shows how Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church point all of us to holiness in our own time.

On this Feast of the Sacred Heart may we renew our own Baptism and through the Love of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, may we begin anew our journey into the perfection of Charity.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Worth looking into!

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