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Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

In Chesterton’s words, “The heart of Christendom is a heart; and we are serious when we call it a sacred heart.” Chesterton always understood the importance of the Sacred Heart, Our Lord’s Divine Mercy, and the deep meaning of the paradox that God loves humanity with a love both Divine and human.

Yesterday, the USCCB consecrated the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let’s all follow Chesterton’s wisdom and example and renew our devotion to Christ's Sacred Heart.

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The new issue of Gilbert magazine is here!

And it's teeming with Chestertonian wit, essays, reviews, poetry, and Dale Ahlquist's signature walking tour through Chesterton's writing.

In this issue, you'll find:

---Chesterton on Freudian slips of the pen
---Dale Ahlquist on the Chesterton Schools Network pilgrims in Rome
---Joe Grabowski on "the kids these days"
---Joan Perillo on Chesterton, Dickens, and the art of satire

Plus book reviews, original artwork, and heaps of Chesterton to edify and inspire.

The best way to read it? Become a member of the Society of G.K. Chesterton. Your membership brings Gilbert to your email or mailbox six times a year!

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Want a sneak peak? Head over to our podcast, Uncommon Sense, to hear Joe Grabowski and Grettelyn Darkey discuss a few of the topics at the heart of today's issue, like "How Chesterton Saw Through False Progress, Freud, and the Screen Age."

Listen here:
https://youtu.be/tHzA3MxjB_A?si=lqIt9CwO861YvK9Q

(“The Fear of the Past,” The Daily News, December 7, 1907.)

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We can't wait!

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(“Joan of Arc and Modern Materialism,” Illustrated London News, March 14 , 1908)

St. Joan of Arc, pray for us!

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"The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive…. But there is a second fact about Birthdays, and the birth-song of all creation, a fact which really follows on this; but which, as it seems to me, the other school of thought almost refuses to recognize. The point of that fact is simply that it is a fact. In being glad about my Birthday, I am being glad about something which I did not myself bring about."⁠

⁠ (G.K.’s Weekly, March 21, 1935)⁠

Happy Birthday to the Apostle of Common Sense!
GKC, pray for us.