Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

82 Divine Mercy: The Heart Of The Gospel 19 Rev. George W. Kosicki, CSB, and Vinny Flynn, “Look at My Merciful Heart! Devotion to the Sacred and Merciful Heart of Jesus,” in the Association o fMarian Helpers BULLETIN, Summer, 1994, p. 12, 15, 17. 20 Catechism o f the Catholic Church, no. 2563, p. 614. 21 Cf. Karl Rahner, SJ, Theological Investigations, vol. 8 (Baltimore: Helicon Press,), p. 230. 22 Luigi Ciappi, OP, The Heart o f Christ: The Centre o f the Mystery o f Salvation, (Rome: CDC Publishers, 1983), p. 65. 23 St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), p. 66. 24 St. Thomas Aquinas, ST II - II, 30, 1. 25 St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, no 30, p. 71-72. 26 Pius XII, “Haurietis Aquas,” no. 54-57. 27 Sr. M. Faustina Kowalska, Diary, no. 949. 28 As quoted in Margaret Williams, RSCJ, The Sacred Heart in the Life o f the Church (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1957), p. 115. 29 St. Margaret Mary, letter to Father Croiset of Nov. 3, 1689, in The Letters o f St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Rockford, IL: TAN books, 1997), p. 229-230 (my emphasis). 30 Sr. Faustina, Diary, entry nos. 47, 48, 327, p. 24, 148. 31 Williams, The Sacred Heart, p. 188. 32 Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS.CC ., Jesus, Roi d ’Amour (Chambly-canton, Quebec: Centre National Canadien de L’intronization, 1945), 21, 23, quoted in Williams, The Sacred Heart, p. 188. 33 Sr. Faustina, Diary, entry no. 88, p. 44. 34 Ibid., no. 1, p. 4. 35 Pope John Paul II, “Address at the Shrine of Divine Mercy,” June 7, 1997. 36 Bishop Emilio S. Allee, S.D.B., and Kathleen Keefe, The Image o f Mercy (Yonkers, NY: Peace Through Mercy Publishing, 1996), p. 67. 37 Holy card from an Italian publishing house. 38 Sr. Faustina, Diary, entry no. 177, p. 98. 39 Ibid., entry no. 1485, p. 523-524. 40 Williams, The Sacred Heart, p. 116-117. 41 Unfortunately, this emphasis has been obscured in the modern Roman Missal, in which only one of the three options for the opening prayer (or Collect) mentions “making amends” as a central intention of the Feast. The lessons and proper preface now appointed for the Feast show that it has become focused more on celebrating “the boundless love of Christ” than on reparation. The establishment of the Feast of Mercy as a cele­ bration of Christ’s merciful love should enable the Feast of the Sacred