The contribution of religious priests to the development of liturgical worship of Sacred Heart Cover Image

Wkład kapłanów zakonnych w kształtowanie się liturgicznego kultu Serca Jezusa
The contribution of religious priests to the development of liturgical worship of Sacred Heart

Author(s): Włodzimierz Mocydlarz
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Middle Ages, History of Religion
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Teologiczne
Keywords: Priest; Sacred Heart of Jesus; devotion; worship; Benedictines; Cistercians; Dominicans; Jesuits; spirituality; Middle Ages; mystic; Marguerite Marie Alacoque;

Summary/Abstract: Contribution by many religious priests (Benedictines, Cistercians, Dominicans, Franciscans and Jesuits) to the devotion of Sacred Heart has improved its theological roots. The article lists priests who conducted the study of Biblical and patristic sources of the cult of Sacred Heart. Their prayer, meditation and contemplation deepened the truth of the Gospel and Tradition. The worship of Sacred Heart is rooted in the Word of God and in it’s Patristic interpretation, but it’s theological development and the intervention of God through Marguerite Marie Alacoque brought to the approval of the cult by the Church.

  • Issue Year: 63/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 213-228
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish