In early 1863, the desire to glorify the Sacred Heart of Jesus inspired by a religious of the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg (Ain), France the idea of \u200b\u200bsanctifying the everyday duties of state for the special offering of a Guard Time reparation for the sins, public and private, by which Our Lord suffered in agony and bled on the cross.
With this pious practice there would be a spiritual chain allowing each to better understand the solidarity of mankind in sin and redemption.
The beginning was modest. On March 13, 1863, third Friday of Lent, which is then celebrated the Feast of the Five Wounds of Our Lord, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, designing a quadrant which contained the hours distributed among the Religious Guardia Community. Before the end of that month, three members of the clergy and 18 faithful joined her. Shortly thereafter, the Hon. Bishop of Belley and another prelate gave his name to the nascent work.
The movement spread and March 9, 1964, Bishop of Langalarie, Bishop of Belley, stood in the Monastery of the Visitation a Brotherhood under the title Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
On April 7, 1865, just two years after its inception, a papal brief attached to Members indulgence for seven years Guard Time. Blessed Pius IX was not content with blessing the new work, but was also part of it, already approved in forty-four dioceses.
Finally, on November 26, 1878, the Honor Guard, was erected in Archconfraternity for France and Belgium. Then another 19 national Confraternity have been established in many countries. And there is now flourishing in Spain, Italy, USA, Switzerland, England, Mexico, Uruguay, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, Chile, etc.
The title "Guard of Honor" is not today, no doubt, the resonances evoked by the mid-nineteenth century. Our age is also refractory to a certain approach to repair. But it may happen that there is in this a few misconceptions and wrong.
A "Guard Time" can be understood in a way too passive, like a soldier with rifle on his shoulder, guarding the entrance of a Headquarters. But it can be understood also in a very active service time, time to call a phone that, in battle, says communication between commanders and their troops, or his hours on duty from a doctor on Sunday, is attentive to all calls that you can do. The words go, but the realities that they tell us, remain.
If well understood, the Time Guard expressed very simply the idea that for a short time, a Christian, a priest, a priest, strive to live more fully their union with Christ, having no other purpose than to his other thoughts and other feelings, thoughts and feelings of the Sacred Heart.
formulas adopted so far by the Honor Guard talk about the "gift" of a time Guard duty to sanctify the everyday status. Translating the meaning for men of our time, the offering, similar to that made by Members of the Apostleship of Prayer is not just a practice of piety, but must inform all our life. This is not to hoard hours saved Guard as a chest of gold ounces, or make a deposit in the funds of any company, but to live life intensely every day, giving it a thorough orientation to the join Christ and make us co-redeemers.
In theory, this should extend to all life, without interruption or division. But who can flatter himself to live well, without fail, from morning to night, from the first Friday of month to the next? Theologians argue about how many times it will be necessary to make explicit acts of charity for which the credit is true, a fortiori we think that only the Saints can make your life a continual offering.
Living a Guard Time is thus trying to prove to our Lord we want to belong totally redeemed himself for the merits of the Passion and help extend the world the benefits of redemption. An hour is a lot for who starts, it is not for who advances in spiritual life. The practice of imperceptibly leads Guardia time to orient the entire workday to the interests of the Kingdom of God.
Hour Guard is similar to the practice of monthly retirement or daily examination. Has the advantage of being more demanding and more accurate. Does not seek any change in the occupations, but only to be ever mindful of our union with Christ. Of the need to live in Him and for Him to bear fruit. Not only the soldier, the operator, the doctor who before us have served as examples, but the mother, the worker who assembled lime or iron beams, the farmer who planted and cultivated land, the mason who built, the engineer who invents a machine, can be found in this practice increased the chance of sanctification and apostolate more authentic.
A Christian can not in fact dispense with an apostle. The prayer that the ministry would not lead a prayer suspect. The line of duty status is the first step in this road, being much more expensive than you think. Then continues through the various forms of apostolate of the laity, especially the Catholic Action recent popes have continued to recommend. But the more direct and effective pretend to do our ministry, the more we must watch so that it remains deeply supernatural. It is God who has the initiative, He calls us to show our love. One Last Time Guard In the Heart of Christ given to the works undertaken efficiencies that would hardly without it. Partnering this time the mystery of his suffering, we will also join the joys of his resurrection and walk forward under the divine inspiration of the Spirit of Pentecost.
Since its inception this time Guard has been offered in a spirit of reparation. Sin has many aspects: it is disobedience, ingratitude, denial of love, but is also a spiritual disorder consequences attack Christ in his members. It would be false to reduce the seriousness of sin only evil can do for others, when in fact most often hurt the Heart of Jesus for our attitude towards our brothers. "If you love me - Jesus says - keep my commandments." And St. John says for the love of neighbor is passed from death to life. Repair will therefore be aware that sin is a disorder in our relationship with God will have it also it introduces disorder in the world. Make
"Guard Time" shall not therefore merely "provide" this time to the Heart of Jesus, but to live the duty of the state as the Lord asks us to live. Will fulfill our mission of men, but doing so well it is all changed and everyone can say in union with his fellows: "I live, no, no longer I who live, but Christ in me."
If Christ lives and in our hearts. If the Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son, thus encouraging our existence, if hourly relays ensure a vigilant watch over ourselves and the world around us, with eyes fixed internally in the Lord, what chain of prayer, faith, hope and charity will be shaped to contribute to neutralize and counter clutter, little by little the world.
repair will then not be a "substitute" child of real life, but a spirit that makes us part at any time of redemption by which the Son of God has been repaired and even repair a broken world, healing their wounds, taking and bringing to perfection all the natural wealth of this world.
The Sovereign Pontiffs have always shown their kindness and encouraged the honor guard. "We wholeheartedly, wrote from the Vatican to mark the centenary of the foundation of the work (1963), that the practice of the Honor Guard may be as useful to the progress within all ordinary faithful, members of Catholic Action even religious and priests, lose nothing of its appeal. The frequent presence of each, at regular intervals along the Heart of Jesus, far from being incompatible with apostolic work or current forms of piety, may be a powerful source for them, like the energy that each sector needs of religious activity.
After Pius XII and John XXIII, to name only the most recent, Paul VI and John Paul II have deigned to send his paternal apostolic blessing to the Confraternity.
In Santiago de Chile, the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was erected canonical-mind by the Hon. and Rt. Archbishop, Dr. Don Mariano Casanova in the chapel of the Monastery of the Visitation on 30 May 1902. With the zeal of Sister. Manuela Osorio ArchiCAD-Fradi had expanded rapidly after 1907, reaching in the year have 1949 nearly ten thousand members. After a period of decline, sr. Maria Josefina Garcia Huidobro Honor Guard reorganized in June 1990 with the help and drive of a handful of young enthusiasts and lovers of the Sacred Heart. Currently, the Confraternity of St. James, inextricably linked to the Order of the Visitation, is led by Fr. Tisma Milan.
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