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 ...

To the Sacred Heart of our Lord, Jesus Christ, I give myself and I consecrate my person and my life, my actions, pains, and sufferings so that I may be unwill­ing to make use of any part of my ...

I am surely not the only child who was stressed to see Catholic calendars displaying images of Jesus adorned with an anatomically explicit, occasionally bleeding, heart.

was superimposed over where the face of Jesus would be in an image of the Sacred Heart. The image includes a halo behind the character’s head, a Sacred Heart on the chest on which the left hand ...