Almost 100 years ago, in 1929, Pope Pius XI extended the feast of the then recently-canonized St. Margaret Mary Alacoque to the universal Church, giving us a magnificent proper Mass simultaneously honoring the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, who graciously revealed Himself to her, and the saint herself, who faithfully transmitted the message with which she had been entrusted. Even as the Church prays on September 17 that God granted the holy stigmata to St. Francis in order to bring warmth to a world grown cold, so too God raised up this simple nun in France to bring warmth to a nation grown Jansenist. And we are not yet finished with Jansenism, as can be seen in the endorsement of the proposals of the Jansenist Synod of Pistoia by the Second Vatican Council or in the grim defenders of a distorted modesty who joylessly turn people against
well-regulated social dancing.
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