Comments on: (Sacred) Heart of the World – 1 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-1/ asylum for your refugee soul Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:50:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: gabrielle http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3519 gabrielle Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:22:52 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1622#comment-3519 That's great, Pia! If anyone else would like to read Heart of the World and can't find it at the library or elsewhere, I believe it is available at Ignatius Press. (hope you can get to the beach, though). :) That’s great, Pia! If anyone else would like to read Heart of the World and can’t find it at the library or elsewhere, I believe it is available at Ignatius Press. (hope you can get to the beach, though). :)
]]> By: Pia http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3515 Pia Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:49:19 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1622#comment-3515 Thank you so much for these posts, Gab. You are a true treasure hunter! And it's something I so needed to read. I am going to print out the Italian version I mentioned in another comment. That will be my summer reading this year..if I ever get to the beach, lol. If not I'll read it at home! Thank you so much for these posts, Gab. You are a true treasure hunter! And it’s something I so needed to read. I am going to print out the Italian version I mentioned in another comment. That will be my summer reading this year..if I ever get to the beach, lol. If not I’ll read it at home!
]]> By: gabrielle http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3511 gabrielle Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:57:52 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1622#comment-3511 I would like to try to help people understand (through writers who express this truth) that the beating, pulsating, throbbing of Jesus' Sacred Heart is very real, not just a poetic image or a metaphor in the spiritual life. That it is as real as our own - that it sustains us, and sustains the universe. And our struggle, yes - He gives and takes away, gives and takes away - and this is why Jesus pleads with us continually to trust him. I would like to try to help people understand (through writers who express this truth) that the beating, pulsating, throbbing of Jesus’ Sacred Heart is very real, not just a poetic image or a metaphor in the spiritual life. That it is as real as our own – that it sustains us, and sustains the universe. And our struggle, yes – He gives and takes away, gives and takes away – and this is why Jesus pleads with us continually to trust him.
]]> By: Carol http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2009/06/29/sacred-heart-of-the-world-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3508 Carol Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:04 +0000 http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/?p=1622#comment-3508 Ohmygoodness, I love scrolling down something like this and wondering whom it is... I had thought Kahlil Gibran, not least of all because of his Song of the Wave. I never would've guessed von Balthasar--and yet, after clinging for years to his Chapter 12 of the same book, one might've easily known! Is it any wonder that JP II loved this priest? Is it any wonder that I love Jesuits? What a beautiful writing, Gabrielle. It is indeed a picture of our great struggle. It is horrible to have such a glorious gasp beaten out of us with other words, isn't it? The Lord is full of surprises. So are you. Ohmygoodness, I love scrolling down something like this and wondering whom it is… I had thought Kahlil Gibran, not least of all because of his Song of the Wave. I never would’ve guessed von Balthasar–and yet, after clinging for years to his Chapter 12 of the same book, one might’ve easily known! Is it any wonder that JP II loved this priest? Is it any wonder that I love Jesuits?

What a beautiful writing, Gabrielle. It is indeed a picture of our great struggle. It is horrible to have such a glorious gasp beaten out of us with other words, isn’t it?

The Lord is full of surprises. So are you.

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