Sacred heart In the Fathers of the Church

In the Fathers of the Church

     "The holy Fathers, true witnesses of the divinely revealed
     doctrine, wonderfully understood what St. Paul the Apostle had
     quite clearly declared; namely; that the mystery of love was, as
     it were, both the foundation and the culmination of the
     Incarnation and Redemption. For frequently and clearly we can
     read in their writings that Jesus Christ took a perfect human
     nature and our weak and perishable human body with the object of
     providing for our eternal salvation, and of revealing to us in
     the clearest possible manner that His infinite love for us could
     express itself in human terms. (from Hauretis Aquas by Venerable
     Pope Pius XII, n. 44)

     Likewise these same Fathers of the Church often meditated and
     praised the singular love and faith of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
     who so generously offered Herself to God to fulfill His plans for
     our redemption, and who so steadfastly persevered with Her Son
     Jesus Christ in His ignominious crucifixion and death.

     In both these approaches the Fathers of the Church laid the
     foundation for true devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and
     Mary by clearly indicating the union of charity which bound Them
     both in the work of redemption.