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The
Admirable
Heart of Mary
St. John
Eudes
[translated by Charles Di Targiani & Ruth Hauser]
One of the most prolific ascetical writers of the
17th century, St. John Eudes was an inexhaustible reservoir of holy wisdom and devotional
fervor.
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The
spiritual doctrine of this great apostle of devotion to the
Sacred and Admirable Hearts of Jesus and Mary needs to be made
more widely known, and to assist in this task, perhaps no book
of his better exemplifies that profoundly incarnational doctrine
than
The Admirable Heart of Mary. This is why PCP
decided to assist in the reprinting of its first edition in
English (printed in 1948) in 2006.
Eudes reveals to his disciples this most pure and maternal of all hearts both in its corporal and spiritual pulsations, while demonstrating with a dozen unforgettable natural and scriptural analogies, how this human heart was so inexhaustibly divinized by the one Divine Heart of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Admirable Heart of Mary was given to us from the Cross by Jesus Christ. Truly this heart was the first-fruit of His Passion, given to all of Mary’s children, that it might be honored, cherished, invoked and, ultimately, with that of her Son, reproduced in them. This is the essence of the spirituality of
St. John Eudes.
The
high-quality features of this spiritual classic demonstrates the
fine attention to detail made in its reprinting: hardbound in
blue cloth with embossing (not shown in the picture above, but
which contains the book title and the pierced heart of Our
Lady), sewn binding, a colorful dust jacket and printed
endsheets, making it a book that can be cherished and used over
and over again.
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