THE ADMIRABLE HEART OF MARY by SAINT JOHN EUDES

One of the most prolific ascetical writers of the seventeenth century, Saint John Eudes was an inexhaustible reservoir of holy wisdom and devotional fervour.

Loreto Publications, which published this book, considers it a foremost priority to help make the spiritual doctrine of this great apostle of devotion to the Sacred and Admirable Hearts of Jesus and Mary more widely known. Perhaps no book of St. Eudes better exemplifies that profoundly incarnational doctrine than The Admirable Heart of Mary. 

Eudes reveals to his disciples this most pure and maternal of all hearts both in its corporal and spiritual pulsations, while demonstrating with a dozen unforgettable natural and scriptural analogies, how this human heart was so inexhaustibly divinized by the one Divine Heart of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Admirable Heart of Mary was given to us from the Cross by Jesus Christ. Truly this heart was the first-fruit of His Passion, given to all of Mary’s children, that it might be honoured, cherished, invoked and, ultimately, with that of her Son, reproduced in them. This is the essence of the spirituality of Saint John Eudes.

The book is divided into ten parts, to detail comprehensively the Admirable Heart of Mary. 

Part One

Object of the Devotion to the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Two

First Foundation of the Devotion: The Heart of God the Father

Part Three

Six Additional Symbolic Pictures

Part Four

Second Foundation of theDevotion: The Heart of God the Son – Divine Perfections - Mirrored in the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Five

Further Divine Perfections Mirrored in the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Six

Third Foundation of the Devotion: The Heart of God the Holy Ghost Inspired Texts Referring to the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Seven

Inspired Catholic Tradition Concerning the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Eight

Sanctity of the Admirable Heart of Mary Exposition of Its Excellence

Part Nine

Practice of the Devotion to the Admirable Heart of Mary

Part Ten

The Canticle of the Admirable Heart of Mary Exposition of the Magnificat