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The Sacred Heart of Jesus Is the Burning Furnace of Divine Love, by Larry Chapp – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Sacred Heart at the centre of a rose window, Santa Ifigênia Church, São Paulo, Brazil. (Image: Wilfredor/Wikipedia)

By Larry Chapp, Catholic World Report, June 27, 2025

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. He now owns and manages, with his wife, the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chapp received his doctorate from Fordham University in 1994 with a specialization in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. He can be visited online at “Gaudium et Spes 22”.

We are to love others as Christ first loved us, and Christ loves us via the pathway of descent into the wealth of poverty.

June is the month the Church sets aside for the celebration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This has always been one of my favorite devotions and I love all the traditional trappings that adorn it. The iconographic images, the novenas, and the emphasis upon the bottomless love and mercy of Christ have always moved me.

Lately, however, I have been drawn to the emphasis this devotion places on the humanity of Jesus, as I consider our era as one marked by an anthropological crisis. And with the emerging threat of artificial intelligence, this crisis will only grow more acute. What is a human being? What is special about us? What is our unique dignity as creatures made in the image and likeness of God? What is consciousness? Is there such a thing as a spiritual soul within us? …

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