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The Challenge of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus – the Americas & the World, by Charles A. Coulombe – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Challenge of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus – the Americas & the World, by Charles A. Coulombe

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Above: the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Newark, NJ). "Altar Rail and Choir, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Newark". This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 76001151 (Wikidata). This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

By Charles A. Coulombe, OnePeterFive, June 23, 2026

Charles A. Coulombe is a contributing editor for OnePeterFive. He is the author of many books, including The Compleat Monarchist, Blessed Charles of Austria: a Holy Emperor and His Legacy, as well as Puritan’s Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History, Vicars of Christ: a History of the Popes, with A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail. His writings have appeared at the Catholic Herald, Crisis, The European Conservative and he also has his own podcast with Mr. Vincent Frankini.

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To Jesus’ Heart all burning
With fervent love for men,
My heart with fondest yearning
Shall raise its joyful strain.

Chorus:
While ages course along,
Blest be with loudest song,
The Sacred Heart of Jesus,
By every heart and tongue.

O Heart for sinners riven
By sheer excess of love,
The spear thro’ Thee was driven,
‘Twas sin of mine that drove.

Chorus

This hymn to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is often attacked, and even mocked by musical experts of all ideologies in the Church. But whatever its defects, it certainly has deep place in American devotion to the Sacred Heart. Of course, as with most things in these Unites States, it comes from elsewhere. Originally written in German by Fr. Aloys Schlor (1805-52), shortly before his death in 1852. Bearing the title Dem Herzen Jesu Singe, it had 11 stanzas. Translated to English by English academic, playwright, and Jesuit priest, Albany James Christie (1817-91), it was first published in 1876 in his The First Christmas: A Mystery Play.

But as with everything Catholic in the Americas, devotion to the Sacred Heart long predates the United States. Although Spain opened up the Evangelisation of the Western Hemisphere, it was in New France that this devotion took root, with the arrival of St. Marie de l’Incarnation, who founded the Ursuline Order in Canada in 1632, half a century before Our Lord began appearing to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Nine years later, Catherine Symon de Longpré, Mother Catherine of Saint Augustine in religion, brought devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary to Canada, along with her veneration for Marie des Vallées, with whom she was in contact. …

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