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| Feast of the Sacred Heart (First Friday After the Octave of Corpus Christi) |
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Summary of comments of this office by Dom Schuster, in his work L'année liturgique. The devotion to the Sacred Heart was propagated, in its current form, by St. Margaret Mary, a nun of the Visitation monastery of Paray-le-Monial. On Sunday, June 16, 1675, in the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi, she was in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the convent's chapel when our Lord appeared to her, showing her His Heart.The following century, in 1765, Clement XIII approved a proper office and Mass of the Sacred Heart, and permitted its celebration in several dioceses. Pope Pius IX made it obligatory throughout the whole Church in 1856. Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a first class feast in 1890, and prescribed the annual consecration of the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St. Pius X commanded priests to add to the prayers recited after Mass the triple invocation, "Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us." Finally, in 1929, Pope Pius XI replaced the office of 1765 by a new one which, instead of dwelling on the Savior's Passion, commemorates the mercy of the divine Heart of Jesus. |
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