Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Every devotion approved by the Church is founded upon a doctrine of the faith. We believe, for example, that Mary is the Mother of God, Theotokos. We maintain, based on this doctrine of our faith, devotion to Mary and show this devotion or love by various practices, such as the Rosary and the Angelus.
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Again, we believe that Jesus is present body, blood, soul, and divinity under the appearances of bread and wine in the Eucharist. Consequently, Catholics possess a unique love of and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament which is evident in the devotional practices of Eucharistic Adoration and processions.
The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, like other devotions, is based upon another doctrine of the faith, perhaps the greatest of all: “God is love” (1 John 4:16). As Pope Pius XII explained, the devotion to the “infinite love of God for the human race…demands of us a complete and unreserved determination to devote and consecrate ourselves to the love of the divine Redeemer, whose wounded heart is its living token and symbol” (Haurietis Aquas [=HA], nn. 20, 6).
In other words, the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is nothing other than the devotion to the love of God which is symbolized in the heart of Christ.
