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20 Catechism of the Catholic Church , no. 2563, p. 614. 21 Cf. Karl Rahner, S.J., Theological Investigations , vol. 8 (Baltimore: Helicon Press), p. 230. 22 Luigi Ciappi, O.P., The Heart of Christ: the Centre of the Mystery of Salvation , (Rome: CDF Publishers, 1983)., p. 65. 23 St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue (NewYork: 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 St. M. Faustina Kowalska, Diary , entry no. 949. 28 As quoted in Margaret Williams, RSCJ, The Sacred Heart in the Life of the Church (NewYork: Sheed and Ward, 1957), p. 115. 29 St. Margaret Mary, letter to Father Croiset of Nov. 3, 1689, in The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Rockford, IL: TAN books, 1997), p. 229-230 (my emphasis). 30 St. Faustina, Diary , entry nos. 47, 48, 327, p. 24, 148. 31 Williams, The Sacred Heart , p. 188. 32 Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS.CC. , Jésus, Roi d’Amour (Chambly-canton, Quebec: CentreNational Canadien de l’intronization, 1945), 21, 23, quot- ed in Williams. The Sacred Heart , p. 188-189. 33 St. Faustina, Diary, entry no. 88, p. 44. 34 Ibid ., no. 1, p. 4. 35 Pope John Paul II “Address at the Shrine of DivineMercy,” June 7, 1997. 36 Bishop Emilio S.Allué, S.D.B., andKathleenKeefe, The Image of Mercy (Yonkers, NY: Peace Through Mercy Publishing, 1996), p. 67. 37 Holy Card from an Italian publishing house. 38 St. 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 celebra- tion of Christ’s merciful love should enable the Feast of the Sacred Heart 128 Jesus, Mercy Incarnate