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The Heart of Mary<\/em>, by Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862); photographed by Diana Ringo in\u00a0Peterskirche,\u00a0Vienna,\u00a0Austria,\u00a0on \u00a09-22-13<\/span> [Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/span><\/div>\n
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The longstanding Catholic pious tradition of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (see the\u00a0Catholic Encyclopedia<\/i>\u00a0article on that<\/a>) was developed over centuries, perhaps in part from an implicit biblical basis in passages like the following:<\/p>\n

Luke 2:16-19<\/b>\u00a0(RSV)And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child; and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her\u00a0heart<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Luke 2:35<\/b>\u00a0(and a sword will pierce through your own soul<\/span> [heart<\/i>\u00a0in some translations] also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luke 2:51<\/b>\u00a0And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her\u00a0heart<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The devotion is analogous to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (see\u00a0Catholic Encyclopedia\u00a0<\/i>article<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctrinal Foundation of Devotion to the Sacred Heart<\/a>\u00a0by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.).<\/p>\n

St. Paul refers to his own \u201cheart\u201d in similar fashion, in several passages:<\/p>\n

Romans 9:2-3<\/b>\u00a0. . . I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my\u00a0heart<\/span>. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.<\/p>\n

Romans 10:1<\/b>\u00a0Brethren, my\u00a0heart<\/span>\u2018s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 2:4<\/b>\u00a0For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 6:11<\/b>\u00a0Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0is wide.<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 7:3<\/b>\u00a0I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our\u00a0hearts<\/span>, to die together and to live together. (cf. Acts 21:13)<\/p>\n

Therefore, one could speak of Paul, based on explicit biblical data, in much the same way as Mary, referring to his \u201csaving\u201d of others, and of returning to his \u201cheart\u201d \u2014 that is, to conform to his will, just as he urged his followers to imitate him (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17; 2 Thess 3:7-9), as he imitated Christ (1 Cor 11:1; 1 Thess 1:6).<\/p>\n

In a Bible search I couldn\u2019t find anything about the \u201cheart of Jesus\u201d but there are a few passages about the heart of God or the Lord in the OT (which amounts to the same thing \u2014 spiritually speaking \u2014 since all three persons in the Holy Trinity are one God).<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 10:15<\/b>\u00a0yet the LORD set his\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.<\/p>\n

1 Samuel 13:14<\/b>\u00a0But now your kingdom shall not continue; the LORD has sought out a man after his own\u00a0heart<\/span>; . . .<\/p>\n

1 Chronicles 17:19<\/b>\u00a0For thy servant\u2019s sake, O LORD, and according to thy own\u00a0heart<\/span>, thou hast wrought all this greatness, in making known all these great things.<\/p>\n

Psalm 33:11<\/b>\u00a0The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0to all generations.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 15:1<\/b>\u00a0Then the LORD said to me, \u201cThough Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!<\/p>\n

Acts 13:22<\/b>\u00a0And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; of whom he testified and said, `I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my\u00a0heart<\/span>, who will do all my will.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some commentators, however (hat tip to David Obeid in the combox), think the following two passages refer to our Lord\u2019s heart:<\/p>\n

John 19:34<\/span>\u00a0But one of the soldiers pierced his\u00a0side<\/span>\u00a0with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.<\/p>\n

John 21:20<\/span>\u00a0Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had lain close to his\u00a0breast<\/span>\u00a0at the supper and had said, \u201cLord, who is it that is going to betray you?\u201d<\/p>\n

In Biblical, Hebraic terms,\u00a0the heart\u00a0<\/a>represented the soul or spiritual part of a person: basically the person\u2019s deepest desires or essence. So it is simply a pungent Hebrew way of saying we are worshiping Jesus, to be devoted to His sacred heart.<\/p>\n

With the Blessed Virgin Mary it is different; we are honoring her sinlessness and holiness in the devotion to her immaculate heart, rather than worshiping her. All glory and honor for that goes to God, just as she herself honored God as her savior, in the Magnificat.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Heart of Mary, by Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862); photographed by Diana Ringo in\u00a0Peterskirche,\u00a0Vienna,\u00a0Austria,\u00a0on \u00a09-22-13 [Wikimedia Commons \/\u00a0Creative Commons\u00a0Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International\u00a0license] (6-8-10) * * * The longstanding Catholic pious tradition of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (see the\u00a0Catholic Encyclopedia\u00a0article on that) was developed over centuries, perhaps in part from an implicit biblical basis 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