Posted on 06/07/2013 3:22:24 PM PDT by NYer
What does it really mean to say that "God is Love," and how is this revealed in the Sacred Heart of Jesus? On this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, Father Steve meditates on an image of the heart of Christ, explaining what it means to be held within this pierced yet radiant symbol of Divine love.
Hanging on the wall of one of the confessionals at my parish is an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The unknown artist has opted, as many have, for a soft Jesus, whose features are as bland and inoffensive as possible and whose heart is more of a glowing orb than anything remotely resembling flesh and blood. I know that the image is meant to communicate- that the Lord Jesus is accessible to the penitent and offers in response to even the most grievous of sins the possibility of another chance. This is not a Jesus prone to yelling “You did what?” It is a Jesus before which one would be able to deliver oneself with honesty without fear that what awaited such an admission would be blow to the face.
Ping!
Thank you for this.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us.
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God Is Love, Love is Unity, God is One, God loves us, Love is unity with God. “that they may be one, as we are one”.
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