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Further study
At the school of St John and the Song of Songs – Bridal mysticism in the Gospel of John, read in the light of the Song of Songs
Stage 4 - The Heart of Jesus and Bridal Mysticism in the school of Saint John and the Song of Songs
Teaching of Father Martin Pradère ↓
Tradition has given great importance to the nuptial dimension of the love of the Heart of Jesus. Founded on Scripture, particularly the Gospel of John re-read in the light of the Song of Songs (1), this has been unfolded in three stages throughout the history of the Church: the medieval period, the 17th century, and the late 19th century. It gives meaning to the different vocations within the Church.
The Heart of Jesus and the Nuptial Mystery
01 At the school of Saint Jean and the Song of Songs
Tradition has placed great importance on the nuptial dimension of the love of the Heart of Jesus. Founded on Scripture, particularly the Gospel of John re-read in the light of the Song of Songs (1), this has been developed in three stages throughout the history of the Church: the medieval period, the 17th century, and the late 19th century (2). It gives meaning to the different vocations within the Church.
02 Mystical Marriage in the Gospel of John, Read in the Light of the Song of Songs
● The sign of the pierced side (Jn 19:34), in which the whole Gospel culminates, needs to be properly interpreted...
The sign of the pierced side
● Women in the Gospel of John
● The dual symbolic meanings of marriage and sacrifice
03 The deployment of this mysticism in the history of the Church, through the three appeals made to France to be the country of the Love of the Heart of Jesus
Jean's gift to Mary and Mary's gift to Jean at the foot of the Cross, testament to Jesus' love
Jesus' thirst and humanity's inability to adequately satisfy it
●The superabundant gift of the Father's mercy through the blood and water that flowed from Christ's side
“they will look upon him whom they have pierced”: the ultimate gift of the Holy Spirit is to allow us to recognise in the immolated Lamb the one whom we have pierced
04 The Glorified Heart of Jesus on Easter Sunday and the Eighth Day After Easter
The emergence of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the shadow of monastic cloisters during the Middle Ages
● François de Sales, Bérulle, Jean Eudes and the apparitions of Paray-le-Monial in the 17th century: a second call to the love of Love
The rediscovery in the 19th century of the spousal dimension of the love of the Heart of Jesus with St Thérèse of the Child Jesus.
- Marriage
- The consecrated life for women
- The priesthood and male consecrated life
