The Sacred Heart Godden (1888–1976) was a Roman Catholic

(1888–1976) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus

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The Sacred Heart Godden (1888–1976) was a Roman CatholicBy Arthur R. McGratty, S. J. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a relatively late arrival to the list of Catholic spiritual practices, only beginning formally in the late seventeenth century. Three centuries before, St. Gertrude had had a vision of St. John the Evangelist, who assured her that the divine reasoning for the delayed revelation of the Sacred Heart devotion was so it might be given when the world, grown older and colder, might