J.M.J. "In order that favors in greater
abundance may flow on all Christians, nay, on the whole human race, from
the devotion to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, let the faithful see to
it that to this devotion the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God is
closely joined. For, by God's Will, in carrying out the work of human
Redemption the Blessed Virgin Mary was inseparably linked with Christ in
such a manner that our salvation sprang from the love and the
sufferings of Jesus Christ to which the love and sorrows of His Mother
were intimately united. It is, then, entirely fitting that the Christian
people--who received the divine life from Christ through Mary--after
they have paid their debt of honor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus should
also offer to the most loving Heart of their heavenly Mother the
corresponding acts of piety, affection, gratitude and expiation. Entirely
in keeping with this most sweet and wise disposition of divine
Providence is the memorable act of consecration by which We Ourselves
solemnly dedicated Holy Church and the whole world to the spotless Heart
of the Blessed Virgin Mary."
--Venerable Pius XII, Encyclical Haurietis Aquas (May 15, 1956), 124.
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