Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Modern English Retelling

This book is a thorough modern English retelling of the complete text of Fr. John Croiset's Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, based on the 1863 English edition published in London by Burns & Lambert. The original was translated into English from an Italian translation of the original French, and the Victorian-era language - while spiritually rich - can be genuinely difficult for today's reader to follow. All four parts of the work are contained here in a single volume. Nothing theological has been added, removed, or altered. Every argument, every point, every distinction, every example Fr. Croiset makes is preserved. The only changes are to language and sentence structure - complex, layered eighteenth-century rhetoric has been broken into clearer prose, archaic expressions have been replaced with natural modern equivalents, and long compound sentences have been untangled without losing any of their substance.