The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the remedy against liberalism, pride and debauchery of sexuality

            

The Heart of Jesus: Remedy for the Evils of our Times

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the remedy against liberalism, rationalism, selfishness, pride and debauchery of sexuality.

“The Heart of Jesus is the providential reserve that is kept for our times by the goodness of God…No other devotion is more appropriate for the needs of modern times.  To the selfishness of our era, to its sensual tendencies, its religious indifference, the most delicate, pure, disinterested, tender and compassionate cult is offered as remedy” (Monsignor Baudry).

Pope Pius IX with devotion to the Sacred Heart fought rationalism and liberalism.

"Pope Pius IX saw a remedy in the Heart of Jesus against liberalism, and therefore approved, by a Solemn Consecration on June 16, 1875, a formula in which is found a prayer for the conversion of liberal Catholics.(The Sacred Heart of Jesus, author P. Julio Chevalier MSC: Remedy for the evil of society book III chap. 3)

Pius IX, in 1864 (Quanta Cura), described to us its characteristics:

 •Pride: You will know them because they manifest their disdain on all that signifies a prompt, complete and absolute obedience to the decrees and mandates of the Holy See. They will consider themselves as wiser than the Church (cf. no.5). 

•Servility towards the state: They worship civil power, without having the courage to expose that which is contrary to the truth, and they place themselves in the favor of a false liberty (cf. no.3).

 •A spirit of division: This is the most dangerous error because it is hidden behind a veil of charity and of mercy. They call the children of the Church, antiquated, slow and obstacles to progress (cf. no.4).

Liturgical Year – Dom Prospero Gueranger

SECULARISM. — The Church wants us to think today about the consequences of this universal call to faith in Christ. The nations, as a whole, have turned to the Lord, who brought them, with supernatural events, the benefits of a civilization completely unknown to the ancient world. But unfortunately, for two centuries now an extremely pernicious error has been destroying all nations, France in particular: secularism. This consists in the denial of the rights of God and of Our Lord Jesus Christ over all human society, both in private and family life, as well as in social and political life. The propagators of this heresy have repeated the cry of the deicidal Jews: We do not want him to rule over us. And with all the skill, tenacity, and boldness of the sons of darkness, they have endeavored to drive Christ out of every quarter. They have declared religious life immoral and expelled religious; they have tried to impose on the Church, albeit to no avail, a schismatic constitution; they have decreed the separation of Church and State and have denied civil society the obligation to help men to conquer eternal goods; they have introduced disorder into the family with the divorce law, they have abolished crucifixes in courts, hospitals and schools. And, finally, they have declared their laws intangible and have made the State a god.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, protect our families

The Sacred Heart Stopped the Bubonic Plague in Marseille, France, 1720

Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

An Offering of One's Self to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sacred Heart Act of Consecration Prayer by Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

The Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred

 

Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy Most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart.
Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof; call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism; refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy toward the children of that race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: Praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to It be glory and Honor forever. Amen. 

Novena of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 

By Reverend Joseph Cacella, published in 1947 in the Brochure of Fatima and the Rosary.

Eighth day

Intention: For the Conversion of Russia

Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, Refuge of the human race, you have given unto us the means of destroying the menace of atheism and godless communism. Your Promise of conversion for those unfortunate victims of those false beliefs, has instilled joy and hope into the nations of the earth. We grieve for those war-torn, homeless and persecuted people who are victims of such mundane ideology. Grant, we beseech thee. Oh Mother, that peace may come to those separated from thy Son by error and discord. We fail, if we heed not thy Message of Fatima. We know thy wishes, and therefore we promise to make Reparation to thy Immaculate Heart through the Rosary and the Five First Saturdays, that Russia again may hear the word of God, and keep it.

 Our Lady of Fatima, Refuge of the human race, inflame our hearts with the love of Reparation.

Novena of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Seventh Day

Intention: Forgiveness of Sin

Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, Refuge of Sinners, to whom else will we turn in our sorrow for sin, if not to thee. From whom shall we find comfort and consolation, in the shame of our sins, except from thee? Lead us back, dear Mother of Love, to the path of righteousness that leads to the Sacred Heart of thy Divine Son. We have sinned often, oh dear Mother, and the remembrances of the errors of our ways trouble us. It shall be no more. We know that thy protecting care will find peace and hope for us, and the remission of our sins. 

We know too that as with Mary Magdalene of old, thy Son shall welcome us with a loving smile, because you have always pleaded for us. Amen.

 Our Lady of Fatima, Refuge of sinners, inflame our hearts with the love of Reparation.

Novena of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 

Sixth Day

Intention: Purity of Body and Soul

Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, Virgin most pure, have compassion on those who are prone to the allurements of impurity. Give us, we beseech thee, strength to overcome our weaknesses, and courage in the struggle against sin. We know it is your ardent wish that we renew our pledge of holy purity. Oh, Immaculate Heart of Mary, we consecrate to thee here and now, without reserve, our eyes, ears, tongues, hearts--our whole beings. We promise that, with thy help, we shall be steady in our purpose to serve thee with undefiled chastity. Give us the courage to resist all temptations, and to avoid all things that may be the occasion of sin.

 Our Lady of Fatima, Virgin most pure, inflame our hearts with the love of Reparation.

Sermon of Saint Anthony of Padua against the Spirit of Pride

First, a sermon against the proud: I saw a ram with horns, ( and on the arrangement of horns in animals, and their meaning.)

13. When a strong man armed keepeth his court. The strong man armed is the spirit of pride, armed with uplifted horns to brandish and to fight the whole world. As we read in Daniel: 1

1 saw a ram pushing with his horns against the west and against the north and against the south; and no beasts could withstand him nor be delivered out of his hands; and he did according to his own will and became great. (Da 8,4)

This ram represents the spirit of pride, which butts against west and north and south with uplifted horns. The west denotes poor and lesser folk, who lack the heat of strength and power. The north denotes equals (in Isaiah, the devil says: I will place my seat in the north, and I will be like, (that is, equal to) the Most High (cf. Is 14,13-14)). The south denotes greater folk, ablaze with the heat of dignity and power. The horned ram, the spirit of rampant pride, ramps against the west, treading down the poor and humble; against the north, despising his equals; and against the south, mocking and deriding his betters. And no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hands. O horned pride, who can be delivered from your hands? You even raised up Lucifer- the seal of resemblance, whose covering was every precious stone (Ez 28,12-13)- to the very pinnacle of pride. You were born in heaven, and so you usually live in heavenly minds, hiding beneath sack-cloth and ashes!

From the horns of this beast, David the prophet prayed to be saved, saying:

Save me from the lion’s mouth: and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. (Ps 21,22)

The unicorn represents the singularity of pride, because the proud man wants to be alone in pre-eminence. "Power will suffer no partner."3 David detested pride, saying: O Lord my God, If I have done this thing! (Ps 7,4). See how, to indicate the greatness of his detestation, he would not even call it by its own name! God hates pride above all things, and so Peter says:

God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. (1P 5,5)

Job says of the unicorn:

Shall the rhinoceros (or: monoceros, ‘unicorn’) be willing to serve thee, or will it stay at thy crib? (Jb 39,9)

as if to say, "Not thine!" The proud man cannot consider the Lord’s crib, that he was placed in a crib for us.

14. Some animals have backward-curving horns. This is an image of the pride which, in some people, is broken down by their lust. They think themselves high and mighty, but are brought low by the lust of the flesh. As Hosea says,

The pride of Israel shall answer in his face. (Os 5,5)

It often happens that someone, who will not recognize his hidden pride, is brought to shame when it is revealed through the vice of lust.

There are also animals with forward-pointing horns, like unicorns. This represents the pride of the hypocrite, who cloaks his pride under an appearance of religious observance. As Ecclesiasticus says,

There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of deceit.(Si 19,23)

St Gregory4 says: "Humility is such a precious thing, that pride would like to be clothed in it, lest its own vileness be seen."

Some animals have horns which turn towards each other, like the wild cow, representing a pride in some which is broken in itself. Isaiah says:

The Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror,

and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled. (Is 10,33)

The earthen vessel is the mind of a proud sinner, made of clay and breakable, filled with the water of conceit. The Lord breaks it by striking the terror of the Last Judgement into the mind of that proud man. In that judgement, the ‘tall of stature’, who now seem to stand so securely, will be cut down by the sentence;

Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire; (cf. Mt 25,41)

and the ‘lofty’ who now go about with stretched out necks and wanton glances, and move with a set pace (cf. Is 3,16), will be humbled to hell, and to the deepest pit (cf. Is 14,15), in which is no refreshing water.

Again, some animals have horns that go straight up, like the deer. This represents that pride which, in some, arises from religion alone. This is the most dangerous sort, and Isaiah says of it to religious (whom it most benefits to be outstanding in humility), speaking under the figure of ‘the valley of vision’:

What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops? (Is 22,1)

as if to say, It is tolerable if worldly folk seek the highest places; but what does it look like if you religious, that see so much, go looking for promotion?

(A sermon on humility: But if a stronger than he cometh.)

15. Let us say, then: When a strong man armed keepeth his court. The ‘court’ of horned pride is the proud man’s heart, wherein pride chooses its special dwelling. And just as the heart is the origin of the veins, and the primary creator of blood, so from the heart’s pride flows every evil; for

Pride is the beginning of all sin. (Si 10,15)

Pride watches over the court of the heart, lest any of its enemies climb up against it and disturb its peace- of which the Lord says, in Luke:

If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace. (Lc 19,42)

and the prophet:

I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the peace of sinners. (Ps 72,3)

There follows: But, if a stronger than he cometh and overcometh him, etc. The ‘stronger’ is humility, of whose strength David said to Saul, in the first book of Kings:

I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear. (1S 17,36)

David means ‘strong-armed’, and he represents the humble man who, the more he is humbled, becomes stronger. The humble man is like a worm, that earth-eater that contracts itself so as to extend itself the more. In the same way, the humble man contracts and belittles himself, that he may more strongly stretch out and reach heavenly good things. Ecclesiasticus says,

He hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head from tribulation, and many have wondered at him. (Si 11,13)

The humble, yet strong, David says, "I thy servant". O shining pearl! O sweet-smelling blossom! O humility, spicy as cinnamon! I thy servant! The humble man looks on himself as a servant, and calls himself a servant. He casts himself at the feet of all, abases himself, and thinks himself less than he is. So St Gregory5 says: "It is characteristic of the elect, that they think themselves to be less than they are."

This humble servant slays the lion of pride and the bear of lust. And note: he says that he first killed the lion, and then the bear, because no-one can mortify lust in himself unless he first toils to expel the spirit of pride from the court of his heart. So it is said, if a stronger than he come upon him and overcometh him, he will take away all the armour wherein he trusted. The armour (St Matthew calls them ‘vessels’ (cf. Mt 12,29)) of the spirit of pride is the five bodily senses, with which, as with arms, he attacks others; and in which, as in so many vessels, he carries the deadly poison of pride and offers it to others. But the humility of Jesus Christ (who is God, blessed above all (cf. Rm 9,5)) comes, and he says:

Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart. (Mt 11,29)

and he enters the house of the strong man, the court of the heart, in which pride dwells, and overcomes him and drives him out. The medicine of humility expels the poison of pride, and when it is driven out, all its armour, in which it trusted, humility takes away; so that from then on nothing conceited, nothing exalted, nothing vicious may appear in the bodily senses. Instead, the insignia of humility are displayed everywhere.

Litany of Saint Anthony of Padua

 

Adapted for private use

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy.

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

Christ, hear us.

Christ, graciously hear us.

God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.

God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.

God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, glory of the Friars Minor,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, Ark of the Testament,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony, keeper of the Scriptures,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, sanctuary of Heavenly wisdom,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony, teacher of the truth, 

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, preacher of grace,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, conqueror of heretics,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, destroyer of worldly vanity,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, conqueror of impurity,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony, exterminator of vices,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, vessel of purity, 

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, star of sanctity, 

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, model of conduct, 

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, planter of virtues,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, example of humility,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, lover of the Cross,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, martyr of desire,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, generator of charity,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, zealous for justice,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, terror of infidels,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, model of perfection,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, consoler of the afflicted,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, restorer of lost things,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, defender of innocence,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony, liberator of prisoners,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, guide of pilgrims,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, restorer of health,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, performer of miracles,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, restorer of speech to the mute,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, restorer of hearing to the deaf,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, restorer of sight to the blind,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, terror of the devils,
pray for us.

Saint Anthony, horror of hell,

pray for us.

Saint Anthony, reviver of the dead,
pray for us.
Saint Anthony, tamer of tyrants,
pray for us.

From the snares of the devil, Saint Anthony deliver us.
From thunder, lightning and storms, Saint Anthony deliver us.
From all evil of body and soul, Saint Anthony deliver us.
Through your intercession, Saint Anthony protect us.
Throughout the course of life, Saint Anthony protect us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

℣. Saint Anthony, pray for us.
℟.  That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

Almighty and eternal God, Who hast glorified Thy faithful confessor and doctor Anthony with the perpetual gift of working miracles, graciously grant that what we confidently seek through his merits, we may surely receive upon his intercession. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.