We now find ourself a little over halfway through the month of June. The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the words of St. Josemaria Escriva: “enter through our Lord's open side until you find sure refuge there in his wounded Heart.”
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus found its populazation through St. Margret Mary Alacoque. She received various apparitions from our Blessed Lord stretching from 1673 until 1675. Here our Lord expressed His desire that we remember His Most Sacred Heart. That we offer our prayers and penances for those who could care less for what our Lord has done for us.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart is very much so about love. Our Blessed Lord loves us dearly, we can see that expressed to us upon the cross, but how much do we actually love Him? In the words of St. Josemaria Escriva: “God our Father has seen fit to grant us, in the heart of his Son, “infinite treasures of love,” mercy and affection.”
In the words of Christ to St. Margret Mary Alacoque: “Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love. In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrileges, and by the coldness and contempt they have for me in this sacrament of love…. I come into the heart I have given you in order that through your fervor you may atone for the offenses which I have received from lukewarm and slothful hearts that dishonor me in the Blessed Sacrament.”
Truly, we must begin to see this invitation to love our Lord. When we have the opportunity to look upon the Eucharist we have the opportunity to look upon Christ. For so many much is placed over this reality, but for us we must flock to this infinite font of love.
This day as we pray before the Blessed Sacrament may we come to find “refuge there in his wounded heart.” Through His wounded heart we discover “infinite treasures of love, mercy, and affection.” Hopefully, through devotion placed upon the Sacred Heart of Jesus we may grow in the virtue of love. Love for God and love for one another.
The more we abandon the heart of Jesus the more we fail to grow in this virtue of love. If we are to love we must grow close to Christ for from this relationship we have more to give to others. Through the offering up of our penances and prayers may we grow in this virtue by coming to abandon all at the heart of Christ.
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