CV NEWS FEED // The Catholic Church in Turkey is celebrating its official consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which took place in a ceremony last weekend.
According to a June 10 National Catholic Register report, Monsignor Marek Solcyński, apostolic nuncio to Turkey, recently presided over the consecration on June 7, the feast of the Sacred Heart, at St. John’s Cathedral.
The consecration took place at the Izmir Cathedral named after St John, according to the report, since John was “the Apostle who laid his head against the heart of Jesus during the Last Supper.”
The nuncio read the consecration prayer after Communion and Eucharistic Adoration. The litanies of the Sacred Heart were also prayed.
Bishops representing the four major Catholic communities in Turkey—Armenian, Syriac, Chaldean, and Latin—were present at the celebration, along with a priest from the country’s Anglican Church, the report noted.
Fr Alessandro Amprino, Chancellor of the Izmir Archdiocese stated in the report that his idea for the consecration was inspired by “the enthusiasm and current spiritual fruits” of Ecuador’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1874.
The Archbishop then proposed the consecration to the Turkish Episcopal Conference (CET) as an particular expression of devotion during the ongoing national Eucharistic year for the Church in Turkey.
Archbishop Amprino is set to represent the Church in Turkey in Quito, Ecuador for its 53 International Eucharistic Congress.
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