Ruminations of an Irascible Hermit.: Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Friday, June 11, 2021

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Furnace of Love

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the source and fountain of all heavenly graces, as it says in the collect for today’s Mass. the Saints often spoke of the Sacred Heart as being the furnace of God’s love, and this powerful image has always stuck with me.

One of my favourite scripture passages that has gotten me through many years of self isolation from the Church has been Romans 8:39 where St Paul says that nothing can separate us from the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. God loves us so much that he took on human flesh, and allowed his Sacred Heart to be pierced on the tree of the Cross so that by eating its fruit, we can partake of the sacraments of the Church.

Today let us drink deeply from God’s love. Let us be drawn into the Sacred Heart - the divine furnace burning with love that transforms us. Let us enter into Jesus side, his pierced heart and take refuge there, so that through his humanity we can experience the the inner life of the Trinity.

“Jesus stood and cried out: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink” - 2nd psalm antiphon from Morning Prayer

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Please note. I am a Catholic layman, not a qualified theologian or philosopher. What I say and write here are my own personal thoughts and ideas, although I always try to conform my writings to the Magisterium of the Church.

I- with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namely,

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

With firm faith I believe as well everything contained in God's word, written or handed down in tradition and proposed by the church--whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal Magisterium--as divinely revealed and called for faith.

I also firmly accept and hold each and every thing that is proposed by that same church definitively with regard to teaching concerning faith or morals.

What is more, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman pontiff or the college of bishops enunciate when they exercise the authentic Magisterium even if they proclaim those teachings in an act that is not definitive.