An Invitation to Revisit "Haurietis Aquas": Encyclical of Pope Pius XII (1956) [RP: Invitation from Scott Hahn]
On Devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus with a short video note from Scott Hahn
"In necessariis unitas; in non-necessariis libertas; in utrisque caritas."1
“In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things love.”
AN INVITATION TO REVISIT: THE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII:
“HAURIETIS AQUAS — ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART”
WATCH THIS 2 mins 27 second VIDEO by: Scott Hahn on the Sacred Heart of Jesus:
SHORT EXCERPT: from Haurietis Aquas
106. Once this essential truth has been established we understand that the Heart of Jesus is the heart of a divine Person, the Word Incarnate, and by it is represented and, as it were, placed before our gaze all the love with which He has embraced and even now embraces us. Consequently, the honor to be paid to the Sacred Heart is such as to raise it to the rank - so far as external practice is concerned - of the highest expression of Christian piety. For this is the religion of Jesus which is centered on the Mediator who is man and God, and in such a way that we cannot reach the Heart of God save through the Heart of Christ, as He Himself says: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one cometh to the Father save by Me."(107)
107. And so we can easily understand that the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of its very nature, is a worship of the love with which God, through Jesus, loved us, and at the same time, an exercise of our own love by which we are related to God and to other men. Or to express it in another way, devotion of this kind is directed towards the love of God for us in order to adore it, give thanks for it, and live so as to imitate it; it has this in view, as the end to be attained, that we bring that love by which we are bound to God to the rest of men to perfect fulfillment by carrying out daily more eagerly the new commandment which the divine Master gave to His Apostles as a sacred legacy when He said: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you. . .This is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you."(108) And this commandment is really new and Christ's own, for as Aquinas says, "It is, in brief, the difference between the New and the Old Testament, for as Jeremias says, 'I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel.'(109) But that commandment which in the Old Testament was based on fear and reverential love was referring to the New Testament; hence, this commandment was in the old Law not really belonging to it, but as a preparation for the new Law."(110)
LINK TO THE ENTIRE TEXT OF “HAURIETIS AQUAS — ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART” (May 15, 1956) on the VATICAN WEBSITE.
FOOTNOTES: "Haurietis Aquas": Encyclical of Pope Pius XII (1956) POST
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We are unsure if one can attribute this citation to St. Augustine as is often the case. See this article posted entitled, A common quotation from "Augustine"? for various historical aspects of this citation. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/quote.html