Salvador Dalí. (1904-1989)El Sagrado Corazón de Jesús/ The Sacred Heart of Jesus 1962
Oil on canvas 86.5 x 61 cm
Private collection
"When we practise this devotion, not only do we recognize God's love with gratitude but we continue to open ourselves to this love so that our lives are ever more closely patterned upon it. God, who poured out his love "into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" (cf. Rom 5: 5), invites us tirelessly to accept his love.
The main aim of the invitation to give ourselves entirely to the saving love of Christ and to consecrate ourselves to it (cf. Haurietis Aquas, n. 4) is, consequently, to bring about our relationship with God.
This explains why the devotion, which is totally oriented to the love of God who sacrificed himself for us, has an irreplaceable importance for our faith and for our life in love. "
Pope Benedict XVI, Letter on the 50th anniversary of Haurietis Aquas (15 May 2006 )
1856 Blessed Pope Pius IX extended the Feast of the Sacred Heart to the Roman Catholic Church under the rite of double major.
In 1889 Pope Leo XIII raised the Feast to the double rite of first class
On 25 May 1899 Pope Leo XIII issued his Encyclical Annum Sacrum and consecrated the world to the Sacred Heart. Leo XIII called this "the great act" of his pontificate.
In 1928 Pope Pius XI issued his Encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor. In the Encyclical the Pope confirmed the Church's position with respect to the visions of Jesus Christ reported by Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the 17th Century. He said that Jesus Christ had "manifested Himself" to Saint Margaret and had "promised her that all those who rendered this honour to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces."
On 15th May 1956, Pope Pius XII issued his Encyclical Haurietis Aquas ("You will draw waters"). It was issued on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Blessed Pope Pius IX.
On 15 May 2006 Pope Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of Haurietis Aquas issued a letter to Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., the Superior General of the Society of Jesus which emphasised the importance of the devotion to the Sacred Heart.
Weblinks:
Annum Sacrum
Miserentissimus Redemptor
Haurietis Aquas
Letter of Pope Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of Haurietis Aquas
You might want to pic another image. The incription that is on the bottom of that painting is: 'Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dali#1929_through_World_War_II)
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I must disagree.
ReplyDeleteI think you are referring to the following passage in Wikipedia on Salvador Dali:
"Meanwhile, Dalí's relationship with his father was close to rupture. Don Salvador Dalí y Cusi strongly disapproved of his son's romance with Gala, and saw his connection to the Surrealists as a bad influence on his morals. The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ", with a provocative inscription, "Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait."
Outraged, Don Salvador demanded that his son recant publicly. Dalí refused, perhaps out of fear of expulsion from the Surrealist group, and was violently thrown out of his paternal home on December 28, 1929."
That drawing was created in 1929 when Dali was an out and out surrealist. An image of that drawing can be seen at http://www.abcgallery.com/D/dali/dali117.html
The painting of 1962 (depicted above in the article) was completed after Dali had long rejected Surrealism and had converted back to Catholicism. There is no such inscription on the painting of 1962.