{"id":25502,"date":"2010-04-18T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bernardo-de-hoyos-beatified-to\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:06:47","slug":"bernardo-de-hoyos-beatified-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bernardo-de-hoyos-beatified-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo de Hoyos beatified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, in Valladolid, Spain,\u00a0Father Bernardo de Hoyo<\/a>s<\/strong>\u00a0(1711-1735) was beatified. I\u00a0previously mentioned<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Father de Hoyos on this blog. Here is a pr\u00e9cis of Father Adolfo Nicol\u00e1s’\u00a0letter to the Jesuits. The full text of the letter can be read here\u00a0Bernard de Hoyos letter.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“He is considered the first apostle of the Sacred Heart\u00a0in Spain. To recapture who he was and what he contributed, I offer some biographical information that should be understood in the religious and\u00a0cultural context of the 18th century.” Thus begins Nicol\u00e1s’\u00a0for this occasion. More than a century ago, in 1895, the cause\u00a0for Father De Hoyos was introduced; due to many ecclesiastical vicissitudes and\u00a0the political history of Spain, it was repeatedly postponed. Father Nicol\u00e1s, in\u00a0his letter, traces the major events in the very short life of the newly\u00a0beatified who died on the 29th of November 1735 at the age of 24. Near to the\u00a0time of his death, de Hoyos was ordained a priest and in Tertianship.<\/p>\n
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“His\u00a0reputation for holiness,” the letter continues. “spread immediately after his\u00a0death.\u00a0 However, because of the difficult situation in which the Society\u00a0found itself opposed by the Jansenists, the cause for beatification was not\u00a0introduced at that time.\u00a0 Later the suppression of the Society would leave\u00a0many projects unfinished. When the Society was restored in 1814 by Pope Pius\u00a0VII, a strong devotion to the Sacred Heart emerged in the whole Church. In accord\u00a0with the religious sensibilities of the time, the reborn Society dedicated\u00a0itself to the spread and propagation of this devotion with significant\u00a0results.” The letter outlines the steps of this recovery of the devotion\u00a0to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, beginning with Jesuits’ General Congregation 31st \u00a0in\u00a01965, through the generalate of Father Pedro Arrupe and then with generalate of Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach.<\/p>\n
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Then Father Nicol\u00e1s goes on: “Bernardo de Hoyos’s passion for\u00a0the Heart of Jesus faithfully corresponds to the devotion that Saint Ignatius\u00a0felt for Jesus poor and humble, before whom he asks that our affections be\u00a0moved in order to accompany Him in each step of His life: As companions with\u00a0him on mission, his way is our way (GC35, D.2, n\u00ba 14), so that in what we do\u00a0in the world there must always be a transparency to God (GC35, D. 2, n\u00ba 10). On\u00a0the occasion of this beatification, I invite the whole Society, together with\u00a0our collaborators, to renew our personal love of Jesus Christ and to open\u00a0ourselves to the grace of identifying ourselves with Him, so that in Nadal’s\u00a0words, we might understand with His understanding; will with His will; remember\u00a0with His memory; and that our entire being, living, and doing be not centered\u00a0in us, but in Christ (MHSI vol 90. p.122; GC35, D. 2, n\u00ba14), as the \u00a0cornerstone of the particular vocation to which each of us has been\u00a0called.”<\/p>\n
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Father Nicol\u00e1s concludes his letter: “May the Father who has\u00a0hidden these things from the wise and the learned and has revealed them to the\u00a0childlike (Mt 11, 25) through the intercession of Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos,\u00a0grant the Society the grace of accomplishing its mission of being in the Church\u00a0a loving response to Him who was pierced by the pain and the aggressive\u00a0injustice of a world in need of forgiveness and reconciliation.”<\/div>\n
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May Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos show us the way to the Heart of Jesus!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, in Valladolid, Spain,\u00a0Father Bernardo de Hoyos\u00a0(1711-1735) was beatified. I\u00a0previously mentioned\u00a0Father de Hoyos on this blog. Here is a pr\u00e9cis of Father Adolfo Nicol\u00e1s’\u00a0letter to the Jesuits. The full text of the letter can be read here\u00a0Bernard de Hoyos letter.pdf “He is considered the first apostle of the Sacred Heart\u00a0in Spain. To recapture who he … Continue reading Bernardo de Hoyos beatified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,51],"tags":[2394,2343,2397,1708,1838,32098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29913,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions\/29913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}