On Friday, June 11, “Holy Heart Commemoration and Ceremonies” were held in the Armenian Catholic Churches of Turkey.
In the Surp Hovhan Vosgeperan Church in Taksim, the Prayer and Mass was presided over by the High Priest Vartan Kazancıyan, and also attended by Subordinate Deacon Jan Acemoğlu and readers.
The ritual, which started with the Sacred Heart Prayer, was held closed to the congregation due to the pandemic and was shared live on the social media pages of the Surp Hovhan Vosgeperan Church.
Sacred Heart Memorial
Sacred Heart worship began in the western churches in the 12th century. During the Middle Ages, this sincere devotion was found in monasteries and became the subject of visions of nuns such as St. Melchtilde of Hackeborn. The popularization of this worship in its modern form comes from Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, a Catholic nun from France who said she learned her devotion from Jesus during a series of visions she had between 1673 and 1675.
