Comments on: Father Thomas Rosica on the Sacred Heart of Jesus

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:39:38 +0000

Aaaah! You gypsy-soul…

I long for the day when it will be 100% spontaneous, coming from Christ within, instead of a constant battle of will and ego and emotion. Jesus, I trust in You.

By: Bindlestiff

Bindlestiff — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:43:20 +0000

It’s a sort of gypsy.

Yes, to love selfish people.. takes a deep submerging of self. It is so much easier to walk off on them. Especially if you’re me. But the Lord knows what He is doing even with 5 minutes of sun in a week of rain — He is changing lives in a blink like that, and it is He Who has arranged the moment, and as I’ve almost always found to be so even if in retrospect, it’s always for something that will bless at least two, and even temporally. You know? One day as I got on the bus with my two kids who’d been bullied (as two of many) by a certain young man, I saw him two seats up, laying his angelic little head on his mommy, and his taking her arm and putting it around him. “Ma,” I said, “What’s up with that? Doesn’t she know what he’s like outside?” She told me it’s the little brats who need love the most.

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01:45 +0000

Silvia Jesus, truly so.

Pia, yes, and reflecting back on that experience the Lord gave me always brings such wonder and gratitude, and keeps me pretty quiet at this time of year… There is something else I would like to say about it – what happened afterwards, etc. – maybe will be my next post or very soon. (Also, just to let you know, Pia, that all my old posts are on this site too, but without the comments). Good to hear from you, my friend…it’s been too long I’ve been incommunicado, but always thinking of you…

Bindlestiff (whatever does that mean? Will I be forced to google?)

I was very struck by Father’s talking about loving the selfish people in our lives, and that they have been placed with us for a reason. Oh, if we could only keep our egos at bay consistently, and truly reach that beautiful place of unconditional love.

By: Bindlestiff

Bindlestiff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:46:16 +0000

It is only by fumbling and bleeding our way to selfless love of a selfish other that we understand unconditional love enough to believe it possible of God –for us, and then, for all. Do some Catholics say, “Jesus died for the sins of many” rather than “for the sins of all”? Those dopes–they render Jesus from Saviour to mere prophet with that, and never get to know Him as redeemer of our every fault–if we want it.

And indeed, Fr. Rosica is very apt and articulate. I was in for a pleasant surprise when I clicked on the S & L video site, to hear our old Papa’s voice in the main video. JP II was the one heart-softener the world had left, after Mother Teresa’s passing. They knew that the heart is meant to be life-sustaining muscle, not an iron fist.

As Pia notes, He left His own Heart behind.

By: Pia

Pia — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:48:34 +0000

I remembered you writing about a special experience you had on this day a few years back, so I went and read it again (thanks for keeping the old blog up). It reminded me of the facts regarding the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. The host contains cells from the entire heart, as if it were a cross section, all in one small fragment of flesh. The blood has coagulated into 5 lumps: each individual lump weighs exactly the same as the others and all five of them together have that same exact weight. The cells of both the flesh and blood behave like freshly drawn blood and freshly cut flesh. This is what drew the experts to declare that the miracle is an ongoing phenomenon, unexplainable in nature.
The interpretation of the Fathers is that He is completely present in the same way in every fragment of the Eucharist; All is One, One is All.

By: Silvia Jesus

Silvia Jesus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:07:32 +0000

Devotion to the Sacred Heart is devotion to Jesus himself. Silvia Jesus