Today's Solemnity of the Most Sacred heart of Jesus is definitely love feast...love fest in current jargon. The burning heart exposed on the breast of Jesus is an unmistakable symbol of his passionate love for all of us. The Old testament uses the term "hesed-emmet", loving kindness, to attempt to put into words God's total love for us. The attempt goes further in the person of Jesus, the Incarnation of God's love, its visible, tangible reality in human form. And Jesus then expands the sign with his burning heart. Pope Benedict tries to explain this great love: The essential nucleus of Christianity is expressed in the Heart of Jesus; in Christ the whole of the revolutionary newness of he Gospel was revealed and given to us; the Love that saves us and already makes us live in God's eternity. Even our shortcomings, our limitations, and our weaknesses must lead us back to the Heart of Jesus. His divine Heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to abandon our human certainties to trust in him and following his example, to make of ourselves a gift of love without reserve.
Bro. Rene
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