{"id":68997,"date":"2025-12-23T01:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=68997"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:04:58","slug":"u-s-bishops-to-consecrate-nation-to-sacred-heart-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/learn\/u-s-bishops-to-consecrate-nation-to-sacred-heart-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Les \u00e9v\u00eaques am\u00e9ricains vont consacrer la nation au Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur de J\u00e9sus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/storage\/image\/sacredheartofjesus010225.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">The Sacred Heart of Jesus. \/ Credit: Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 11, 2025 \/ 17:16 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved the consecration of the nation to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/44913\/what-is-the-solemnity-of-the-sacred-heart-a-cna-explainer\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> the Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/a> in 2026 to accompany the country\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>At the USCCB Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore, bishops voted \u201cto entrust our nation to the love and care of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\u201d Devoting the nation is an opportunity \u201cto remind everyone of our task to serve our nation by perfecting the temporal order with the spirit of the Gospel as taught by the Second Vatican Council,\u201d Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred years ago, in 1925, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/pius-xi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-xi_enc_11121925_quas-primas.html\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">encyclique<\/a> instituting the feast of Christ the King, Pope Pius XI, drawing on the teaching of Pope Leo XIII, referred to the pious custom of consecrating oneself, families, and even nations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a way to recognize the kinship of Christ,\u201d said Rhoades, who serves on an advisory board for President Donald Trump\u2019s Religious Liberty Commission.<\/p>\n<p>To help Catholics prepare for the consecration, Rhoades said the bishops will develop prayer resources, including a novena. He said they are already putting together other resources for use by dioceses, parishes, and other groups to engage Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his fourth and last encyclical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.html\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Dilexit Nos<\/em><\/a>, Pope Francis brought devotion to the Sacred Heart to the forefront of Catholic life as the ultimate symbol of both human and divine love, calling it a wellspring of peace and unity,\u201d said Rhoades, who has served as chair of the USCCB Committee on Religious Liberty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Francis \u201cwrote of how the Sacred Heart teaches us to build up in this world God\u2019s kingdom of love and justice. Then in his first apostolic exhortation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/20251004-dilexi-te.html\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Dilexi Te<\/em><\/a>, Pope Leo XIV, following upon Pope Francis\u2019 teaching, invites us to contemplate Christ\u2019s love, the love that moves us to mission in our suffering world today,\u201d Rhoades said.<\/p>\n<p>Before bishops voted to consecrate the U.S. to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle asked if the bishops will include catechetical materials to guide Catholics, as the devotion \u201cis ultimately inviting people into a deeper relationship with the very person of Jesus himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Etienne said the \u201cdevotion to the Sacred Heart is such a rich devotion and almost complex.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rhoades responded they \u201cdo intend to have catechetical materials,\u201d because \u201cthere is such an abundance of beautiful teaching.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the request of Bishop Arturo Cepeda of San Antonio, Rhoades said the bishops can provide the materials in various languages \u201cto have as many of our people involved as possible.\u201d He said the resources will also allow individuals and families to make their own consecration, as the\u00a0 consecration simultaneously happens across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski proposed a celebration during the bishops\u2019 spring meeting in Orlando, Florida, in June at the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and suggested inviting Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other officials to attend.<\/p>\n<h2>History of the devotion<\/h2>\n<p>The story behind the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus dates back to 1673. At a monastery belonging to the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary in eastern France, Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque began experiencing visions of the Sacred Heart that continued for 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Margaret Mary learned ways to venerate the Sacred Heart of Christ during her visions. These devotions included a Holy Hour on Thursdays, the creation of the feast of the Sacred Heart after Corpus Christi, and the reception of the Eucharist on the first Friday of every month.<\/p>\n<p>Le 16 juin 1675, J\u00e9sus a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 s\u0153ur Marguerite-Marie de promouvoir une f\u00eate en l'honneur de son Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur. Il a \u00e9galement donn\u00e9 \u00e0 s\u0153ur Marguerite-Marie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/resource\/55295\/promises-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-made-to-saint-margaret-mary-alacoque\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">12 promesses<\/a> to all who venerated and promoted the devotion of the Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican was first hesitant to declare a feast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/252549\/st-margaret-mary-alacoque-and-devotion-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Sacred Heart<\/a>. But as the devotion spread throughout France, the Vatican granted the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to France in 1765. In 1856, Blessed Pius IX designated the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi as the feast of the Sacred Heart for the universal Church.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/267757\/us-bishops-consecrate-nation-to-sacred-heart-of-jesus\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/267757\/us-bishops-consecrate-nation-to-sacred-heart-of-jesus<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacred Heart of Jesus. \/ Credit: Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 11, 2025 \/ 17:16 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved the consecration of the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 2026 to accompany the country\u2019s 250th anniversary. At the USCCB Fall 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