THE DEVOTION TO THE HEART OF JESUS: With an Introduction on the History of Jansenism
London: Art and Book Company, 1896. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. 237p. Hardcover book in very good condition. Burgundy boards rubbed with bumped corners. Back free endpaper cut out. Otherwise clean and tight. Item #126737
Fr. John Bernard Dalgairns was a convert to Catholicism and priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. In this book, he undertakes an argument against Jansenism before providing spiritual teachings on a devotion to the Heart of Jesus. Dalgairns writes about Jesus' heart, "It was created to give a local habitation and a material shape to the charity of the Eternal Word for His poor creatures. Mary's womb was its birthplace; it sprang from her pure blood; all in a moment it rose within her, the Heart of God, the spring of His human life, charged with His love for man. Its first throb was an act of love; and it went on, through every phase of joy and sadness, bearing the action of this mighty influence till it broke upon the cross."
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