Thursday, September 21, 2006
OA - DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
For the record, I have read this teaching this evening, checked some of the quotes in Scripture, and found the history of the Devotion and of St. John Eudes online. For some reason he couldn't get Papal approval of his foundation or his congregation.
In any case, he is the source, along with St. Mary Margaret Alacoque, of devotion to the Sacred Heart. He also developed the "flames" theology used in the OA devotion.
The saint lived in France during the time that Rosicrucianism was spreading. Not surprisingly the Rosicrucians picked up Sacred Heart doctrine, as Anthroposophist Christopher Bamford explains in this essay titled "The Meaning of the Rose Cross".
Nevertheless, what appears in the OA website seems to be orthodox.
