Heart of Jesus

The heart appears in the writing of the early Church fathers, not as a separate devotion, but as illustrative of the love expressed through the heart of Jesus in Scripture, and that's actually the same way many of the artists of the early holy cards worked with the image.

Most of the later holy cards promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart, but the images that are collected here are the earlier ones that included the Heart of Jesus simply as an element within a composition illustrating the intimate, personal relationship between God and man made known through the Incarnation and made accessible to all in the Eucharist through the power of the cross.

Because many of the holy cards used the symbol of the Heart of Jesus to illustrated the Heart to heart bonding, the purification of the soul by the love of God and the unity made possible by the the institution of the Eucharist, I've also included links to miracles of the Eucharist in which the Heart appears and to an article by Catholic priest explaining the significance of this greatest of all symbols.

The history of the Heart of Jesus in western spirituality is long and complex, so I'll look for links to sites that seem helpful.

Heart of Jesus

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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