Today's Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart emphasizes the total, eternal, and unconditional love of God. Psalm 136 repeats its re-assuring refrain after each short verse, dozens of times: "For his faithful love endures forever." (Ps 136: 1). St. Paul asks: "What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rm 8: 35, 37-39). When our anxieties seem to be getting the best of us, when our prayers seem unanswered, when our own sinfulness discourages us, these are the verses we need to pick us up and put us back on track. Along with them, picture the Good Shepherd with you on his shoulder, or Jesus with children on his lap. Imagine yourself as one of those children. Sing with them Paul's passionate and confident hymn to God's unshakeable love, or this simple acclamation: "O give thanks to the Lord for he is good,/ for his faithful love endures forever." (Ps 136: 1).
Bro. Rene
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