Sacred Heart Resources

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Hot off of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus last Friday is today’s Sacred Heart Friday post on resources to enrich your knowledge of the Sacred Heart! I just used ‘Sacred Heart’ three times in one sentence! That may not happen all that often, anywhere.

The following are links and an incomplete bibliography on the Sacred Heart. Many of these resources come from Anne Costa, of Revive Hope and Healing Ministries, who has written two wonderful books on the (you know what) that I reviewed right here:  “A review of two books on the Sacred Heart.”

Online resources:

Books:

(I’m not providing links as to where you can buy them, that is up to you to do a search. Chances are, EWTN, TAN,  Marytown, or Academy of the Immaculate will have them, otherwise search wherever you shop online for books (or visit your local Catholic bookstore if you are blessed to have one! If they don’t have any of these, they can order them for you.)

This list is obviously incomplete; given the popularity of the devotion to the Sacred Heart, I cannot list every book. The ones that made it to the list are there because I either have a copy, it was on an Anne Costa bibliography, or I heard about it from somewhere else. Anything listed after “TO SLAKE A THIRST” are here by reputation (I do not have the book and cannot vouch for it but it looks good. Especially if Liguori and Eudes wrote it. 😉 ) If I missed any obvious ones, email me or post them in the comments.)

  • The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: How to Practice the Sacred Heart Devotion by Fr. John Croiset 
  • Healing Promises: The Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart by Anne Costa
  • A Little Book of Reparation First Friday Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Anne Costa
  • The Autobiography of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
  • The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: Apostle of the Sacred Heart
  • Love, Peace and Joy: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus According to Saint Gertrude: Thirty Chapters for a Month Devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Very Reverend Andre Prevot
  • Seemingly Impossible… BUT TRUE! the Nine First Fridays by Father Gnarocas
  • The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Rev. Fr. Peter J. Arnoudt S.J.
  • The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood by Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche
  • Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Soul Assurance
  • Updated Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Rev. Walter Kern
  • Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Mary Frances Lester
  • Sacred Heart Prayer Book by Brother James, SDB
  • TO SLAKE A THIRST: The Matt Talbot Way to Sobriety by Philip Maynard (NOTE: this is on using the devotion to the Sacred Heart as a way to achieve sobriety.)
  • Novena Meditations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (A Catholic Devotion) by Saint Alphonsus Liguori and Rev. Thomas Santa C.Ss.R.
  • The Sacred Heart of Jesus Paperback by Saint John Eudes 
  • Behold This Heart: St. Francis de Sales and Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Fr. Thomas Dailey OSFS 
  • Entrustment to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Through St. Dymphna;: A Nine Day Preparation with the Patron Saint of the Emotionally and Mentally Disturbed by Richard Dole

Well, there you have it! An as comprehensive as I can Paulcoholicly make it. Have fun!

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