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The Title Our Lady of the Sacred Heart |
 Let us recall that to
understand this title one should read the text of
the title from right to left, as is usual in the works of Jules
Chevalier. The important part of this title is the Sacred Heart of
Jesus. He is the centre. Mary is the mother who offers him to us, who
desires that we enter into union with him, who longs to form us as she
formed her Son Jesus, so that humanity may discover the tenderness,
compassion, mercy, strength, power, fidelity and constancy of the love
of God revealed in God's Son. Our Marian title is Christocentric. |
Title OLSH 
For us, a life in union with the Heart of Christ is not just a devotion - it is the very core of our spirituality. the heart of Christ is the source of living water, that is, of the Spirit. 
Jules Chevalier (1824-1907) was a man of his time. He was convinced that the Jesus he found in the Gospels was a person of deep compassion and understanding. 
Through her union with Jesus, Mary knows the unsearchable riches of his Heart and wants to lead us to him, who is the source of a limitless love that gives birth to a new world. 
Fr. Jules wanted to found a missionary Society that would have as its purpose to bring God’s compassionate and merciful love to human beings as the remedy for the evils that afflicted society.