There are three reasons that come to mind that makes the
Sacred Heart of Jesus special to me.
First, my blogger friend Ros, otherwise known as
Shadowlands, who I gave a little memorial blog entry
after I found out she passed away, once said something that has since stuck
with me and which I do myself now. She
said that whenever she felt a particular deep hurt, a hurt that stings to the
heart, she envisions herself physically with her hand taking that hurt out of
her heart and placing it in Jesus’ sacred heart. There it would get soothed and withered and
disappear. It really does help the hurt.
Second, one of St. Catherine of Siena’s mystical
experiences, which I recounted in my second blog on her biography by Sigrid
Undset,
was having her heart replaced with Christ’s heart. Here’s the key passage from the bio.
A day or two later Catherine had
been to Mass in the Capella della Volte and remained in church to pray along
after all the others had left. Suddenly Christ appeared to her; in His hand he
carried a human heart, deep red and sparkling with light. When Catherine saw
how it shone she fell on her face. But again Our Lord opened her left side, and
put the burning heart into her body. “My dear daughter, the other day I took
away your heart. To-day I give you My heart, which will give you eternal life.”
Third, whenever I think of God the Father’s love for his
creation, and especially me, I envision beams of light going through Jesus’
heart out to the world and ultimately to me.
And I envision a reverse light emanating from the world and me back through
Christ’s heart to God. Christ’s heart
then becomes for me the intermediary between where love flows both ways up and
down. Here’s a fragment of one of my
prayers.
Precious God,
I love you with all my heart, with all soul, with all my being, as I know you
love me through the Sacred Heart of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I love first fridays! I have only ever once made a 9 month stretch. :/ Take today for example...running all over everywhere except to mass. :( erg.
ReplyDeleteBob plays that song as an instrumental when he needs meditative music at mass. I sang it once I think. Nice!
The second picture is by Salvador Dali, right? The third one was my mother's favorite picture, she kept it in her room, so "Il Sacro Cuore di Gesu" reminds me of my childhood!
ReplyDeleteYou are right! That second picture is a Dali. I had no idea when I selected it. It just looked interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I learn something myself from my own blogs. ;)
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