THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS 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.

The book is translated by Dom. Richard Flower, O.S.B., MA. of the Portsmouth Priory. 

Nihil @bstat: Arthur J. Scanland, S.D. Censor Librorum.  Jmprimatur by Francis J. Spelman, D.D. Archbishop, New York September 26, 1944.  

Like Saint John the Apostle, Saint John Eudes had the privilege of what could be nothing less than direct intimate access to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One can only conclude after reading this book on the Sacred Heart that here was more a seraph than a man, driven by the Holy Spirit to cast the fire of the Savior’s love upon this earth with the pen of a scrivener lost in divine abandon. Surely, our Lord gave the key to the treasure house of His Heart to John Eudes. This book opens that treasure to the one with holy desires. God is wonderful in his saints, and with holy gusto we second the accolade given to him by a grateful generation: the wonder of his age.

St. John Eudes has been called “the wonder of his age.”  Missionary, founder, reformer of the clergy, he crowded into a life of seventy-nine years so many and such varied accomplishments that one marvels how a single man could achieve so much.  In addition, to the activities of an incessant and many-sided apostolate, he wrote a number of valuable books, which rank him among the most prolific ascetic writers of the seventeenth century.

The preface of this book states, “it is here presented in English was written in French by that great servant of God, St. John Eudes, to whose zeal and holiness and learning we owe the origins of the public worship of the Sacred Heart, and I deem it a high privilege to have the honour of introducing it to the reader.”