July 1, 2024 • 79 mins
In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska reflects on the mystery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pulling from the writing of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde, she shares the desires of Jesus' Heart, which He revealed to both of these saints. She also reflects on the promises that the Lord gave to St. Margaret Mary for those who honor His Sacred Heart, keep images in their homes and practice the First Friday devotions. (June 30, 2024)
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You're listening to WCAT radio, yourhome for authentic Catholic programming. Hello,
and welcome to the Heart of Fiatcrucified Love. We are going to do
a podcast today at the end ofJune on the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
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if you didn't guess. I hadwanted to do this at the beginning of
June, but time kind of gotaway from me, and I wanted to
really spend the month of June meditatingon this gift of the Sacred Heart that
the Church gives to us. SoI can share with you a lot of
the riches. What is this giftof the Sacred Heart, particularly given to
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us in the month of June.How can we live a daily life,
an ordinary life in union with theSacred Heart. How can we respond to
the graces that the Lord is given? And what is he asking of us
in this revelation. So many timespeople when they think of the Sacred Heart,
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they go back to the revelations ofSaint Margaret Mary ala Coke, which
is very beautiful, or even SaintFaustina where Jesus gave her that image of
his heart ripped open and the bloodand water coming forth. But I would
like to go to some reflections thatI have from a really beautiful book that
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focus a little bit more on SaintGertrude the Great and Saint Mechtilde, who
also had a great devotion to theSacred Heart, and what the Lord shared
with them might not be known aswell to some of you. And then
I have some beautiful art here I'llexplain what we're going to use visually to
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help us, but we should beginwith a song. And the song that
was on my heart was Lord,I need you right because the gift of
the Sacred Heart to us is avery personal gift of the human love of
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the man Jesus Christ. It's divinelove, which is you know, that
fire that we see coming from it. And yet sometimes we forget that Christ's
heart loved us with a very human, manly love. And when we recognize
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that love, then we recognize howdependent we are upon him, not just
like a in a heady spiritual way, but in a very concrete way.
Right to be our defense, tobe our fortress, to be our everything.
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We see how much we need theLord the same way that a wife
is dependent on her husband for manythings, We as the Church are dependent
on the heart of Christ, asour beloved husband, as our Lord,
and we are called to have anexchange of hearts with him, really in
a beautiful way. So let's startin the name of the Father and of
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the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful enkindlein us the fire of your love.
Send forth your spirit, and wewill be recreated. And thou shalt renew
the face of the earth. Lord, I come, I confessus a week
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I find my rast. Without you, I fall apart. You're the one
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that guides my home. Lord,I need you, Oh wa need you,
and every I need you. Mywane defens my ridecha sad, Oh
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God, how WHI need you.We're sending ornsteam. Your grais more where
grace is from. That's where youare. Where you are, Lord,
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I am free, O lea ischristen me. Lord, I need you,
Oh why need you? And everyI need do by one defense my
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ride jesusness, Oh God, howI need you, so teach my song
to rise to you when temptation comesmy wit, when I cannot stand to
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fall on you gesus your You're mywhole anstay or dy you O wh need
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do Avery. I need you,my waney defenses, my ride chestiness.
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Oh God, how I need You'remy wall defense, You're my right chestness.
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Oh God, how I need you. In the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Ali Lujah, I need
to cut that nail. We're notgoing to pray anything longer right now,
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because at the end I'd like todo some prayers together to the Sacred Heart.
After we reflect right now on thisgreat gift. I'd like at first
to draw your attention on the artaround me. This is a beautiful image
that I actually founded a Hispanic junkstore for like twenty dollars. It's so
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beautiful. But what strikes me isthe heart of Jesus. It's on fire.
You can see the blood coming out. You can see the crown of
thorns. It's cannetted inside of himto his wounds. Think about it.
It makes Christ be able to bleedfrom his hands and his feet. It's
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his heart pumping blood forth and asit goes through his veins that pours out
of his hands. Christ's hands arewounded here, and so although he's holding
his heart in his hands, offeringit to us, it's still connected to
him. Think about even the tensionof that pain, and there's a cross
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that conquers and a fire of loveand great light that illumines us from the
heart of Christ. Right, youthink about the heart of Christ and the
Eucharist. His eucharistic heart is hissacred heart. It's the same thing body,
bloods, soul, and divinity.And in the mystery of the Eucharist,
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he does the same thing. Hetakes that heart connected with membranes,
to his own body, and hepulls it forth and he offers it to
us. And if we receive thatheart into ourselves it's still attached to Christ,
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then we become attached to Christ.We become one with him. Saint
Mechtilde and Saint Gertrude speak a lotabout that exchange of hearts that the Lord
had with them. It's so beautiful. So about two weeks ago, one
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of the children that I nanny for, we went to hobby lobby and bought
canvasses. I like to do thatwith them, and we all paint together,
and she decided to do the sacredHeart. So I decided to do
one quickly with her. All Right, I just had children's paint there.
But I brought these out because it'sthat simplicity of a child's image of the
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sacred heart that is so incredible inteaching the profound truths is that we're going
to talk about of the love ofChrist. Right, So you see,
both of ours have the heart,the Cross of Christ that pierces through.
It's beautiful to look at, butimagine what that means for the wood of
the cross to splinter through the verycore of your being, right, the
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center of your being, the centerof your nerves. Imagine the pain when
you hit a nerve. Now takea whole cross, a whole tree,
not just a little splinter, andstick it through. Right, Think about
people impalled. And the cross ofChrist goes directly through the center of his
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being. Why, in order torip open his love so it will pour
forth upon all of us in theworld. He has the crown of thorns
surrounding his heart. His love,this beautiful, pure gift of his selfless
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love, was mocked. That's whatthe crown of thorns represents, the mockery
of man of the love of Christ. A lot of us have been mocked
in our lives. Right, youthink about children on a recess, you
know, parking lot, or youknow, maybe in a family where you
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know, sarcism just goes a littlebit too far. Right. Then there's
like the evil people who mock Christiansin general and as being a Christian,
you know, we take that asa personal offense. But I don't think
that there's any form of mockery thatwould be as painful as a lover mocked
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by their beloved. Imagine and authentically, selflessly, purely offering the gift of
love to another human being and havingthem ignore it is terribly painful. Having
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them reject it is even more painfulto say I don't want your gift,
I don't want your love, Idon't want your friendship anymore. But having
them mock it is sadistic. OnlySatan mocks love and Christ. He wears
that crown of thorns on every imageof his heart that we see. Look
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here, this beautiful statue from MexicoI was given. He wears it as
a badge, as a trophy kindof to say, regardless of the mockery
you throw at me, I willlove you more. Look at the fire
bursting forth from his heart. It'slike when you throw you know, water
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on oil fire, sometimes it willspread even more. Right, it just
lights it more on fire, Itdoesn't put it out. So the more
that Christ's love is mocked, themore like a furnace, it burns to
give itself to heal those who mockhim. The crown of thorns is on
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his heart like a prison. Imaginea prison cell with the metal bars holding
them in. Those crown of thornsthat they wrapped around his head, that
even more proverbally, in his heart, bound his love that is boundless,
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confined his love in the prison ofdarkness, And yet Christ was free.
What did he say, I willinglylay down my life. I willingly take
it up again. He used thatbinding to explode his love out even further.
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Right, Think about Christ in thetabernacle, bound, waiting to give
his love to us in a profoundway. Think about the nails that bind
him to the cross, and heuses that to open our hearts that are
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so hard and so closed, andso cold, so indifferent. The Church
gives us the month of June tomeditate on the sacred heart because we need
to meditate on the safe heart.When Christ talks about making up in reparation
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to the sins, against his heart. Does it help Christ when we do
that? Does it help Christ whenwe love him back and one inside?
No, because he's divine, hedoesn't need our love. On the other
side, Yes, because he ishuman and he thirsts for our love.
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Right, every image of the sacredHeart could have those words written above it.
I thirst, I thirst. AndYet the greatest reason Christ offers his
sacred heart to us and asks usto love him in return is not for
himself. It's for us. Becausewhen God created us in the womb of
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our parents and breathed his life intous, he breathed a need for the
love of God to live within us. Just as an unborn baby is dependent
on their mother to live. Ifyou rip a child from their mother's womb
before the time has come that theycan live on their own, they will
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die. And we were created tobe that dependent on Christ always, so
that if you rip us from theheart of Christ, we'll die. He's
our source of oxygen, he's oursource of food, he's our source of
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protection, he's our source of direction. He carries us where we need to
go. It's a beautiful image toreflect on. To live within the heart
of Christ as an unborn baby livesin the heart of their mother that dependent
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upon them. And so in themonth of June we're called not only to
think about the heart of Jesus,you know, once on the Feast of
the Sacred Heart, but every dayto dive deep into the riches of the
Church, to meditate on what thatheart represents, what that gift of love
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is. To gaze upon images ofthe Sacred Heart everywhere, because we become
what we look at, we becomewhat we love. Over the centuries,
Christ has revealed the gift of hissacred heart to many, many saints.
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Sometimes he's spoken too, saints abouthis darkness, or you know, the
wound of his hands, or butno, no mystery has been more greatly
expounded to saints than the mist ofthe heart of Jesus Christ his heart.
And it began with Saint John.It began in the Last Supper. Why
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because as we spoke, that giftof the eu Christ to us was the
gift of the heart of Christ.And in the Last Supper, Jesus drew
his beloved disciple John upon his heart, and John heard the heartbeat of Christ
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the same way that Christ within thewomb of Mary heard that heartbeat of love,
right, that maternal love that ourladies shed on Christ and Utero he
sheds upon us. Right. Thinkabout a newborn baby pressed up against the
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heart of their father. That's thekind of love that Christ wants to offer
us. Think about a wife whosehead lays upon the chest of her beloved
husband. That's the kind of lovehe wants to give. I take care
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of a lot of twins and triplets, multiple babies. I just I love
them. That's so beautiful. Whenthey're first born, you can't separate them.
You put them even in separate partsof their crib or their best and
it and they find each other.They coddle up. They want to be
close to that other little heartbeat thatthey had shared for so many months.
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Right. Little babies love the soundof a heartbeat. If you have a
sound machine, it's so powerful whena baby is crying when they're brand new,
especially if you just turn on thesound of a heart beating. They
know that sound. It's the soundof their mom. Christ asks us to
use all of our senses as littlechildren to absorb his love. The mystics
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talk about what it means to listento the heartbeat of Christ, like Saint
John did right to allow our heartbeatto be in unison with his, to
use his heartbeat as an examination ofconscience. What does Christ's heart beat for
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for the will of the Father tobe done? Right? It's fia aba,
fia aba, I will be done. So when we listen to his
heartbeat, we hear our own heartbeat. We see where our hearts are out
of sync with the Lord. Right. You know, we're kind of like
fia aba. But I really wantthat new car, fiat abba. But
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I'm gonna judge that person. FiatAbba. Oops, I ate too much
last night. Fi Ah. Butwhatever it is, the world, the
flesh, the devil, it takesour attention, and it distracts us from
that pure love of sharing the heartbeatof Christ and living every footstep of our
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life in unison with his heartbeat.Christ knew it would be hard, and
he knew we were people of thesenses. So not only did he reveal
to Saint John the sound of hisheartbeat, right, she shared the image
of his heart with many saints sothat we would paint it, so we
would gaze upon it, so wewould meditate upon it, so that we
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could focus on absorbing that gift.And he knew that our heartbeat would be
tempted to chase after things of theworld, right, riches, fame,
understanding, and so he gave usnot only the image of his heart,
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but the physical heart of his lovein the Eucharist. That is why He
gave us his sacred heart. Inthe Eucharist. Every single day, every
day, every second, three chalicesare raised on an altar in the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass. Somewhere inthe world. Every second, three patterns
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have the Sacred Heart laying upon them. And He doesn't just enter bread for
the sake of bread. He wantsus to come and to receive him as
often as possible so that he canchange our heart beat into his. Christ
doesn't want to just like sit likea picture across from us and I have
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us look at each other. Heactually wants an exchange of hearts. Part
one section of my doctorate writing thatI did here in February was going through
the different mystical marriage experiences of manyof the saints, both male and female,
and they speak about this gift ofthe exchange of hearts with Christ.
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Some of them Christ took and imprintedthe physical signs of His passion upon their
heart, pierced their hearts with asword. Right, we have that beautiful
statue of Terce of Avala and Romethat shows her being pierced by the sword
of an angel. Why it's theangel was bringing the Cross of Christ to
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planet within her. Saint Clair ofMontefalco, Saint Veronica Giuliani had the physical
images of Christ and his passions crosson their hearts, and when they died
and they did autopsies, they foundthem. Their hearts are still preserved with
these images. Christ wants to exchangehearts with us. It's like that passage
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in the Ezekiel that God said,I will come and I will take your
your hard hearts, your thorny hearts, your hearts of stone, and I
will give you new hearts, heartsof flesh. The Father says, I'll
give you the very heart of myson, and Jesus in Saint John's Gospel
says, like I am the vine, you are the branches. Remain in
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my love, Remain in a livingrelationship of indwelling love with me, where
my heart lives in you and yourheart lives in me. I have many
different beautiful writings I go through tomeditate on the Sacred Heart. I have
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a whole book from Saint John D'sI should have pulled that one down too,
but the one I grabbed is thisone. It's it's it takes actually
gets every day of June. Itgives you a reflection, but you could
read it at any time, inany order. And it has to do
with the devotion to the Sacred Heartaccording to Saint Gertrude. But there's also
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a lot with Saint Machteld and Iwant to share with you just some of
what the Lord himself shared with herabout this mystery of his sacred Heart.
Saint John the Beloved appeared to herand spoke to her about the beating heart
of Christ. Right, and SaintJohn said, in the early time of
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the Church, we were confined tospeak of the divine Word, the eternal
Son of the Father, and somewords of deep meaning upon which human intelligence
might meditate forever without ever exhausting theirriches. Right. So from the beginning
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of the Church we were given theword of Christ in the gospels. But
to these latter times was reserve thegrace of hearing the eloquent voice of the
heart of Jesus. At this voice, the time worn world will renew its
youth, be roused from its lethargy, and again be inflamed with the warmth
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of divine love. So at thebeginning of the church, what does it
go out and proclaim the gospel?They proclaim the teachings of Christ. Christ
taught us a new way to live. Think about the sermon of the on
the mount right. The beatitudes.Do not start up treasures on earth.
Do not judge, love your enemies, Do good to those who hurt you.
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Pray for those who persecute you.You are the salt of the earth.
You are the light of the world. Beautiful teachings. But in these
latter times, Christ saw that notonly did people need to learn how to
live with their mind, they hadlost love in their heart. So he
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revealed his sacred heart and his loveitself in a more profound way. Every
single image of the sacred Heart thatyou see Christ is pointing at his heart,
bloody, bound on fire with love. And Saint Gertrude talks about the
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Lord telling her to enter and livewithin the sacred Heart, and he quotes
the Book of Revelation three verse eight. I have given before you a door
that is opened, which no mancan shut, because you have lived strength.
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What is the door open that Christgives to us that no man can
shut the door of his heart?He allowed that sword. Look at what
my little gal did. She said, I want that arrow, that sword
that pierces him, So she drewit right. He allowed his heart to
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be pierced after his death, sothat the open wound would remain forever.
When somebody's alive, if they getwounded, that wound heals immediately. Cells
begin to heal that wound. Ifyou have a death wound, if you
are cut open after you die,there's no renewal. That gaping wound of
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his heart was open forever as adoor inviting us in. And not only
does Christ want us to enter hislove to live in his heart. Every
day he says to us, Istand at the door and knock. He
knocks upon our heart, and heasks us, with our free will,
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to open our hearts and to allowhim to enter in unabashedly, to see
the ugliness of our heart and toclean it, to see the weakness,
the brokenness, to heal it,to strengthen it, to see the emptiness
to fill it. And it's sobeautiful of this exchange of hearts, because
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when we enter and live in Christand we allow him to live in us,
he transforms us into another of himself, another face of himself in the
world. We begin to see withhis eyes, to judge with his mind.
You know, in his thoughts areabove our thoughts and our ways.
He judges people as the King oflove, not of condemnation, not rashly,
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not in your face. He onlypoints out wounds if he's capable of
healing and bringing holiness forth from them. Right. He enters into us and
asks us to live in him sowe can hear and listen with his ears.
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Sometimes we listen to what people say, but sometimes we're listening to the
Holy Spirit explaining what they didn't say, explaining, you know, what's really
going on. He enters into usand asks us to enter into him so
that our mouths may only speak hiswords that are blessing, that give life
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to other people. If your wordsdo not build up somebody, give them
strength, give them joy, givethem peace, then don't speak them.
He enters into us, and weenter into him so that our actions may
be done in him. Whether itbe cleaning the floor or you know,
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taking out the trash, doing youraccounting at work, whatever it is,
when we do them in Christ andallow Christ to live in us, it
purifies with that fire of love everythingordinary. Like at the wedding of Cana
he changes the ordinary water into wine, and later at the Mass he changes
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the wine into his blood. Whenwe live from an exchange of hearts with
Jesus Christ, he changes everything inour lives that is ordinary into extraordinary,
just because we're doing it with divinelove. For divine love. There's a
little girl that I was taking careof once, and she was upset because
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she had done some chores for herparent and didn't get the allowance she had
been hoping for. She was justso distress, and I said to her,
I understand your disappointment. Right,you were expecting something and you didn't
get it. I said, sometimesI work for people who don't pay me
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justly, right, or at leastwhat we had agreed on or was expected.
But the thing is when you dowhat you do because it's right.
When you're doing chores around a housejust because you're part of that house,
right to love your mom, totake care of what God has given you.
When you do them and offer themas a sacrifice to Jesus in love,
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then they still have meaning. It'snot pointless even if you don't get
an allowance that you want. Sooften that's what keeps my heart at peace
when disappointments come. When I dosomething and it seems like it failed right,
or maybe it is something like workand you're not recompensed adequately, or
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even you do an act of lovefor another person and they outright reject it
or mock it or ignore it.It's not for naught. It's not for
nothing if you're doing it with Jesusout of love for Jesus, because the
love that imbues it itself is priceless. It's beyond the worth of gold.
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Jesus told Saint Gertrude how important itwas in our times that we share this
devotion to the Sacred Heart, thatwe have images of the Sacred Heart,
that we read the writing of theSacred Heart, and the messages that Jesus
gave Gertrude and Mechtilde and Margaret Maryright Saint John Hugh's. He said,
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I wish that your writings of theSacred Heart about the love of my heart
be for the latter times a proofof the tenderness of my heart. I
will make them a great source ofgrace to many souls. While you write
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well, I will keep your heartnear to my heart, and I will
instill into it, drop by dropwhat you are to say. Christ hold
Saint Gertrude close to his heart andtells her what to write for us.
But the same as when we meditateon the Sacred Heart, when we read
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her words, when we listen toChrist just speak deep within us. He
doesn't just want to speak to ourears or to our mind, but from
heart to heart. When we readas messages to the saints, where we
receive you know his words and prayer, or maybe not even words, maybe
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it's just a to much of hislove. He imprints that love upon us.
We probably won't have the instruments ofhis passion physically visible on our bodies
or in our hearts, like Clearof Montefalco or Veronica Giuliani. Right,
and yet mystically we are to bearthose wounds and that imprint of his love
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to the world. Mystical means hiddenlyright, it might not be seen.
Jesus spoke to Saint Mechtilde about thewound of love in his heart, saying,
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in this wound of love so greatthat it embraces heaven and earth and
all that they contain, Unite yourlove to my divine love. Press your
heart up against tim Take the deepestheart wounds that you have, and press
them against his heart wounds. Unitewith them in love, and through this
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your heart will become perfect. It'sthrough your wounds, united to his,
that you will become perfect. Evenas iron glowing with fire, becomes as
it were, one with it,Let your love be transformed and absorbed into
mind. Right, allow that fireof love to consume you. At first,
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it might kind of hurt, itmight bother you. Why because it'll
purify you. The closer that lightof Christ comes to you with the fire
of love, the more you'll seeyour imperfections. You'll see your negligences,
you'll see your faults. And yetif you lean into it, if you
offer it to the Lord, it'sburned away at all. All that's left
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is love. And then the saintssay, when you reach that point,
love and do what you will.Right. John of the Cross says that
the end of life will only bejudged by love. Saint Vincent de Paul
said, let love be your law. You can only do that when you've
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allowed the love of Christ to consumeall of you, selflessly, humbly,
purely. I marked a few morepages. One day, Saint Gertrude was
holding her crucifix, kissing it,and the Lord said to her, each
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time that a man does so kissesa crucifix kisses, the heart of Christ
merely looks upon a crucifix, ormy sacred heart with devotion, the mercy
of God looks down upon his soul. He ought then to think in his
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heart that these tender words are addressedto him. Behold, how for thy
love I have willed to be attachedto a cross, naked, disfigured,
covered with wounds, and with allmy members violently distended. My heart is
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so passionately enamored of THEE, thatwere it necessary in order to save THEE,
I would again willingly endure for THEEalone, all that I have suffered
for the salvation of the whole world. Christ wants us to look at his
heart. He allowed it to bepierced open on the cross. He revealed
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it to the saints It's like heripped his bloody heart open and said,
look, because he knows we needto look in order to have our desires
purified, have our love inflamed.But every time we do that and we
feel that thirst rise up within us, a thirst to assouge the suffering of
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Christ, to unite with it,to compassionate. God himself, in his
great mercy, looks down upon us, and Jesus continued to reveal that love
of his heart in the Eucharist.To Saint Gertrude, my delights are to
be with the children of men.To satisfy my love. I have instituted
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the sacrament. I have obliged myselfto remain therein even to the end of
the world, and I wish itto be frequently received. Should anyone deter
a soul from communion, he wouldimpede the delight of my heart. I
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have done my most to manifest thetenderness of my heart and the blessed Eucharist.
When impelled by the veheminence of mylove, I enter a soul by
communion. I fill it with graces, and all the inhabitants of heaven and
earth, all the souls in purgatoryexperience at the same moment a new effect
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of My bounty. All of thechurch, both here below and in heaven
and in purgatory, experience a movementof grace when we receive the Eucharist with
love. So make every possible attemptto be able to do that as often
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as possible. Right, If youare the father of a family and you
have to work, and there's nodaily mass set lines up with your work,
your desire will satisfy. Okay.Your first responsibility when you're in the
world, like a father and ahusband or a mother and a wife,
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is to your daily duty. Sofor a husband to provide for their family
to go to work. Right,Hopefully there's masses where you can hit,
but that's the most important for mother. You don't want to leave a sick
child in order to go to mass. You know God wants you to stay
with them, so you have todo your daily duty. But if you
can, in the midst of yourdaily duty go to Mass every day,
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the entire church will benefit. Andit's okay if it's not perfect. Right,
it's okay. If your child's screamingand you have to spend most of
the time in the vestibule. It'sokay if you get out of work ten
minutes late and you get there,you know, right before the gospel for
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a daily Mass. The Lord justwants to see that you stop to see
him. Right. Maybe you're sotired. I remember working all night and
being so tired. I just fallasleep when I get into church. But
it's okay because God looks at thedesires that you have for him. Right.
He only requires us to be fullypresent on Sunday, but he calls
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us to try to make the eucharstthe center of our lives, according to
our state of life. You know, religious sisters have that gift of others
providing for them so that they cando that. Right. For many years
when people understood my vocation, Ihad that gift and I would spend ten
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fifteen hours a day in church.Once the world did not understand that,
I've had to work. Right,I pray that someday people will provide for
me as a soul given fully toGod the way that they did in the
past, so that I can stilldo that. But in the meantime,
God looks at our desires. Infact, I folded that page over beautiful
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God counts our desires as the action. To be quite honest, here he's
asking us to come to holy communionas much as powerful. He said to
Saint Mechtilde, nothing gives me somuch delight as the heart of man,
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of which I am so often deprived. I have all good things in abundance.
The heart of man alone is stillwanting to me. God, the
creator of heaven and earth, haseverything at his disposal, but he can't
grasp the heart of man, becausehe created us free. We have to
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give our heart to him freely.But the heart of Jesus is all desire,
it says in scripture, totem deciderumright in Latin, total desire.
That's why every image of Christ hasa fire coming from it, because it's
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to show us his burning desire,that burning thirst for us, for our
love. And he waits for us, He waits for us to come.
And Saint Catherine of Siena talks aboutthis powerful gift of desire that the Lord
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shares with us. He doesn't justdesire us. He wants us to burn
with a desire to love him,to be one with him. He wants
us to have a burning desire forour neighbor. And it comes from this
fire of love of his heart livingin us, where we look at our
suffering brother and sister, and weburn with the fire of love to help
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them, to excuse them, tobe an instrument of their salvation. Saint
Catherine of Siena cried out, myGod, how will you be able in
these unhappy times to provide for theneeds and the wants of your church.
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I know that you what you willdo, your love will raise up men
of desire. Their finite works,joined to infinite desire, will make you
hear their prayers for the salvation ofthe world. We don't have to be
perfect. We have to try ourbest and give it to the Lord and
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allow him to perfect it. Right, so we take our ordinary lives.
You know, I think about theordinary life of my parents. For years.
My dad left it the house atyou know, six thirty seven in
the morning. He came home atsix thirty seven at night. He was
lucky if he could go to dailyMass at noon. But he took this
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ordinary providing for us, doing gardening, doing the plumbing right, helping take
care of the foster children we broughtin, or taking us to sporting events.
Those ordinary things united with a powerfuldesire to love and serve. God
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made all of those ordinary actions somethingthat changed the world. And you might
say, oh, you know,I'm fifty, i'm sixty, I'm seventy.
I wasted my life. It's okay, do it. Now go back
and say, Lord, all ofthese ordinary things I've been doing, right,
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wrong, or indifferent, I uniteto your sacred heart and I offer
them now, use them, now, Use the time I spend in daily
mass or daily adoration to transform whathas been ordinary in my earthly life to
extraordinary love that converts sinners. Inthese times when souls are weak, the
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heart of Jesus looks to us forgreat desires, to supply for the suffering
which is beyond our strength. Jesussaid, always offer me, with a
contrite and humble heart, the desireto endure, were it necessary for all
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my glory, all the sufferings ofthe world till the end of time,
and you will obtain from my heartwhatever you ask. All you have to
do is say I love you somuch I desire. It doesn't mean that
Christ is going to come with athunderstorm of nails and destroy you. What
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does he say, come to myyoke is easy, my burden light.
He wants to help us, Hewants to be a good shepherd, to
lift us onto his shoulders. Butwhen he sees us burn with infinite desire
to suffer with him, to lovethat greatly that any prayer we ask will
be granted. Saint John Berkman said, there are, in fact a certain
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number of saints who become saints onlyby their desires. Look at terresav Lasou.
She had a burning desire to bea missionary, and she was a
carmelite. She's a patron's ain't ofmissions. Her desire was enough. So
recognize those great desires in your heart, in your life and your prayer,
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even if they seem to contradict thereality of what you can do, and
just offer him to the Lord.Your desire is great, Your desire is
enough. Saint Claude de la Columbia, who was the spiritual director of Margaret
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Maryella Coke, he said, whenhe was speaking about a vow he made
to be perfect, God could notfail to take the desire for the reality.
He said, God sees my desireto be perfect, and it's enough.
He fulfills that desire. We're calledto be people of desire. So
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Saint Gertrude, Jesus is talking toher about the souls she's praying for their
conversion, and he says to her, make them come into heart, those
souls for whom you've prayed this week, I wish to have them at my
table. And she said, howLord can I make them under your heart?
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Unworthy as I am? If Icould draw to you these men with
whom you want to take delight in, I would willingly go from now until
the day of Judgment with bare feetin search of them throughout the whole world.
I would take them in my armsand come and offer them to you,
in order to satisfy, even inthe slightest degree, the infinite desire
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of your divine heart. But howcan I do it? And Jesus said
to her, your desires and yourgoodwill suffice for all. So don't worry
about perfection. Right you desire togo spend an hour with him in adoration,
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and your baby as a bad diaper, Or you get a important phone
call you can't leave work, Yetyour desire to be with him makes up
for it. And when you getthere, you get there right, you
could try to go to confession.This happens to me all the time,
where I'll like, be set,I'm going to go to confession, and
every time I go, there's atrain, there's an emergency, there's a
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thunderstorm, there's a long line.It's okay. Your desire itself is purifying
your heart, and God knows you'llgo when he allows. I'm looking here,
for I've folded a few pages over. Jesus said to Saint Gertrude.
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I wish that all the words ofthis book, which you offer me,
or rather which my spirit himself isdictated, should be filled with the richness
of my love. Whosoever coming tome with a contrary and humble heart,
shall desire to read herein for thelove of my love, I will make
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him repose upon my heart, andwill show him as with my finger,
the place is most suitable and adventatiousto him. So not only does Christ
want to pull us into his heart, he wants us to meditate in that
heart with him. He's going topull you in his heart and say here,
look, great, here is mypatience. That's what I want you
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to work on. Oh, here'sforgiveness. Here's generosity. Right, here's
piety, here's a lack of judgment, rash judgment. And Jesus said to
Saint Mechtilde that he wanted her tobe his greatest friend. He said,
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my heart is your greatest friend,he said, My chosen one, as
you see, lives always with meand seeks only to fulfill the good pleasure
of my heart. As soon asshe knows my wish on one point,
she fulfills it immediately, then triesto find out my further desires that she
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may satisfy them at once. Thus, all her life is spent in loving
and pleasing me with the most perfectfriendship. Christ doesn't want us just to
look at his heart or to beexcited about his heart, but to live
his will, to live as hisheart asks, right, and he asks
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that we have an exchange of heartwith him. He asks that we pray,
yes, Lord, take all,and give all. Take all of
my misery, since indeed I possessnothing else, Give me all that you
will of your riches. Make melike you, amiable and loving, that
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your heart may rejoice in loving meas much as it desires, and seeing
itself loved by me as much asit has a right to expect so beautiful.
Saint Gertrude said to Jesus, Ifind nothing on earth in which I
can take pleasure except in you alone, my Lord, who are full of
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sweetness. And Jesus said to her, and I find no delight in heaven
or earth without you, because I'veassociated you by love to all of my
joys, so that I enjoy nosatisfaction apart from you my satisfaction. The
greater will the fruit for you be. Saint Jesus also told Saint Gertrude,
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if anyone will generously renounce his ownwill to seek only my good pleasure,
my divine heart will illuminate him witha vivid light to know my wishes.
I will show him in what hehas failed with regard to his rule,
which is the expression of my will, and will atone with him for all
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his shortcomings. Like a good masterinstructing a dearly loved child, I will
let him lean on my heart.I will gently point out to him his
faults. I will kindly correct whathe has done amiss, and supply what
he has neglected. If, asa heedless child, he pays no attention
to some points, I will attendto them for him and make up what
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he has passed over. Jesus asksus to pay three debts to his heart
through our love of his heart.We are to pay the debt of atonement
for all of our faults. Sowe are to love his heart enough to
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atone for our faults. The debtof gratitude for the grace is received.
We're to look at his heart andall these graces he's given us and to
love to make up that debt andthe debt of charity towards God and man.
We're called to love him because ofthe great love he demands of us,
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both towards himself as God and toour neighbor. Lastly, he asks
us to be a victim of lovewith him, to not only allow ourselves
to be set on fire, butto be pierced with him to take It's
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not even like our own suffering.Say we're selfish and we're around Christ.
We might be uncomfortable because we seeour own selfishness right, and it purifies
us. Then he asks us togo step further to suffer, to purify
the selfishness of our brothers and sistersin the world. Right, Jesus asks
us to be a victim with him, and also to be a victim of
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his desires. It's so beautiful.He is such a desire for us to
be holy, that as he poursout his love upon us, we're a
victim of that love. In away, we're burnt to a crisp We're
transformed into him. Jesus accepts thedesires of our hearts as if they were
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realized. He said to Saint Gertrude. The good will of a man is
undertaking this work to fulfill my desire, notwithstanding the difficulties he meets with,
is most agreeable to me, andI accept that goodwill for the deed.
I accept it. If you're burningwith a desire to do something for the
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Lord, to fulfill it right,and something out of your control prevents it
from happening, God takes that desireas the reality, even if he be
unable to succeed, I reward himas if he had accomplished it right.
The heart of Jesus may derive moreglory from a desire of the realization of
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it that's been sacrificed than from thesatisfaction we would have felt in doing it
right. Jesus said, if ifI grant your desires, I will follow
you to whatever better flowers that youchoose. But if you sacrifice your desires
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to my good pleasure, you followme to the garden of delights, where
I find my greatest happiness. Sosay you have a really good idea to
do something to honor the sacred heartright, but it's not God's will.
It pleases him that you're trying,but it gives him greater love when you
sacrifice your way of doing things,your will for his. I will be
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better pleased with you if you experiencethe desire and the privation of it.
Then if you gain your wish andenjoy the pleasure of doing what you wanted.
We want to even sacrifice to theLord our holy desires, so that
his desires for our life may dwellwithin us. Saint Gertrude said, Oh,
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how I long to be consumed?Was so burning a love that my
heart could liquefy itself and be lostentirely in thee. And Jesus answered her,
your desires are the fire which soliquify your soul, that my love
may absorb it into my divine heart. He said to Saint Machtelde offer me
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in your heart a desire which includesall the desires and all the love which
men have ever been able to offerme. And I'll accept this desire of
your heart as if you really hadsuch an intense and widespread love. And
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so there's so much more I couldshare, but we are almost up with
our time. I want to brieflytouch at the end of this podcast on
the powerful promises that God that Jesusgave to Saint Margaret Mary Ala Coke to
those who honor his sacred heart.Right we hear from Gertrude and Mechtild this
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exchange of hearts, this fire oflove that Christ wants to consume in us.
To Saint Margaret Mary Alacoke, hegave twelve very very concrete promises of
things that he would do for herand for all souls who honor His sacred
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heart, especially through an image ofit in their home right by doing a
consecration to it, an enthronement.If you honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus
in your life, in your home, if you get an image of it,
you display it, you pray,you allow his love to consume you,
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you imitate him. Then One,he will give you all the necessary
graces for your state in life.Whatever vocation you have, he will give
you the graces you need to becomeperfect in it to be a saint.
Number two he'll establish peace in ourhomes. Number three he will console us
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in all of our troubles. Numberfour he will be there are refuge during
life, and at the hour ofdeath, will always be able to run
within his heart and hide and rest. Five he will bestow abundant blessings upon
all of our undertakings. Anything wedo for the Lord, he'll bless.
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Six sinners will find in my heartthe source and infinite ocean of mercy.
Seven lukewarm souls will become fervent.Eight fervent souls will quickly rise to great
perfection. Nine he will bless everyplace in which an image of his Sacred
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Heart is shown in eyes. Tenhe will give to priests the gift of
touching the most hardened of hearts.Eleven those who promote this devotion to the
Sacred Heart will have their names writtenin my heart, never to be erased.
And twelve he says, I promiseyou, in the excessive mercy of
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my heart that my all powerful lovewill grant to all those who receive Holy
Communion on the first Friday in nineconsecutive months the grace of final perseverance.
They will not die in disgrace norwithout receiving their sacraments. My Divine Heart
will be their safe refuge. Inthis last moment, Jesus asks us not
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only in the month of June toremember his Sacred Heart, but every First
Friday, every Friday, but thenevery first Friday especially, that we go
to Mass, that we meditate uponHis sacred Heart and that love, that
we exchange our hearts with him.That we go to confession, that we
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pray for the Holy Father and theChurch. And here at the end we
pray a few prayers. We praya daily prayer to the Sacred Heart,
almost Holy Heart of Jesus, fountainof every blessing. I adore you,
I love you, and with livelysorrow for my sins, I offer you,
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my poor heart. Make me humble, patient, pure and holy,
obedient to your will. Grant DearJesus, that I may live in you
and for you protect me when I'min danger, comfort me and affliction,
Give me health of body and mind, assistance in all of my temporal needs,
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your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy
day. Within your heart. Iplace all of my cares and you can
state your special intentions and every need. Let me come to you with humble
trust, saying, Heart of Jesus, help me. And there's a special
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prayer of reparation to the sacred Heart. Most sacred Heart of Jesus, have
mercy on me, Oh God,forgive me for all the sins of my
life, the sins of my youth, the sins of my age, the
sins of my body and mind,the sins of my soul, the sins
that I've confessed, the sins thatI've forgotten, the sins others against others
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and thought word indeed, and allof my sins of a mission. Oh
my God, I'm sorry for allmy sins. Because you are so good.
With your help, I will notsin again. Be merciful to me
a sinner, Divine Heart of Jesus, convert sinners, save the dying,
and deliver the holy souls in purgatory. Here is a special prayer of confidence
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to the sacred Heart, Oh LordJesus Christ, your most sacred Heart.
I offer these intentions, and youcan offer your greatest intentions. Look upon
me with love and do what yourheart inspires. Let your sacred heart decide.
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I count on you, I trustin you. I throw myself on
your mercy, Lord Jesus. Youwill not fail me, Sacred Heart of
Jesus. I trust in you,Sacred Heart of Jesus. I believe in
you your love for me, SacredHeart of Jesus, your kingdom. Come,
Sacred Heart of Jesus. I've askedyou for many favors, but I
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earnestly implore your goodness for these.Receive them and place them in your sacred
heart. When the Eternal Father looksupon these intentions covered with your precious blood,
he will not refuse them. Itwill be no longer my prayer but
yours, Oh Jesus, Sacred Heartof Jesus. I place all my trust
in you. Let me never bedisappointed. A healing prayer to this loving
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Heart of Jesus, Good and lovingGod. As I place my hands together
in prayer, my heart and mindturn to you, the source of all
healing. Fill me with your infinitelove. Let my weakness be replaced by
your strength. In all I sayand do. Guide me in ways that
are right and just, grant megood health to do your work here on
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earth. Let me be an instrumentof healing for others. That my actions
may offer compassion to all people.Touch my heart, Lord, that I
may be a channel of your infinitelove, especially for the poor and the
suffering. Inspire me to draw closeto you in my times of need.
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Help me to lead others to youby my good example, most Loving Heart
of Jesus. Bless me in healthand mind, body and spirit, that
I may serve you with all mystrength. Touch gently this life that you've
created, and let your Holy Spiritguide me now and forever. And an
offering to the Sacred Heart, myLoving Jesus, out of the grateful love
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I bear you as a reparation formy unfaithfulness to your grace, I give
you my heart, and I consecratemyself wholly to you. With your help,
I resolve to sin no more.Heart of Jesus burning with love for
us, inflame our hearts with lovefor you, and a prayer before the
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image of the Sacred Heart, OhSacred Heart of Jesus, Poor, out
your blessings on your church upon itspriests upon all its children. Bless my
family, friend's relatives a stay,and you can mention your special intentions,
sustain the just, grant true repentanceto sinners, assist the dying, deliver
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souls in purgatory, and extend overall hearts. The sweetness of your love
and the short prayer of Margaret MaryAlacoq, Oh Heart of Jesus, Heart
of Love, I place all mytrust in you, for I fear all
things from my own weakness, butI hope for all things from your goodness.
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Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto thine.
I encourage you, if you don'thave an image of the Sacred Heart
in your home, to get one. Put it in a prominent place.
You can have a priest come overand do an enthronement of your home and
your family to the Sacred Heart Heart. And if you're extra daring, you
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could buy yourself a set of cheappaints and you could paint an image of
the Sacred Heart yourself. Teach yourchildren to draw images of the Sacred Heart,
and talk about with your family,what are the virtues that are so
beautiful that we see reflected in theheart of Christ. What is he trying
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to offer to us to help usgrow in holiness? What does it mean
to go to communion to have thatexchange of hearts with him? Glory be
to the Father and to the Sonand to the Holy Spirit. As it
was in the beginning, is nownever sheldy world without an amen. Jesus,
meek and humble of heart, Makeour hearts like unto thine Amen.
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May not far be in the fireof your love. May we allly stand
stagether in the follier of your love. May the crawls be where not swell
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bad on your wounds to me,my other, May my fool can find
from your heart the follier of yourwillow. May you stay there forever on
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the crawls in your side, maybe consume with every drop of blood and
all the geers you cry. Maymy vel be your crown of thorns,
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and my read be afraid. Maymy hard lav on has one with you
in the rozaraction. For no man, Lord of bathom, leaden love as
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you do. If I do forget, please look at me. May your
eyes pierce me through. May mypillow be your arm outstretch Colverenbla made my
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spirit ever read choice with you ina turnedy made my spirit ever read choice
with you. O man gee geegee mine old gee gee salt geals my
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God. May never be all inthe fire of your love. May we
all always stands tagetherther in the fireof your love. May the crawl speed
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or up show bad than your wounds. Be mya bold. May my food
come forth from your heart the fireyour love. May I slave there for
whatever on the cross in your side. May I be consumed with every drop
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of blood and all the tears.Your crown be, my bed be a
crown of thorns, and my breedbe a flag. May my heart lay
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down as one with you in therise shine. For no man could ever
father and the world as you do. If I do you for good,
please look at me. May youreyes pass me through you. May my
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pillow be a arm outstretched cold ofbreath blood. May must be red ever
re joice with you and need toTrinity in love. May must be ever
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rejoice with you wal love. Hello, God's beloved. I'm Annabel Mosley,
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Author, professor of theology and hostof then Sings My Soul and Destination Sainthood
on WCAT Radio. I invite youto listen in and find inspiration along this
sacred journey. We're traveling together tomake our lives a masterpiece and with God's
grace, become saints. Join meAnnabel Moseley for then sings My Soul and
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Destination Sainthood on WCAT Radio. Godbless you. Remember you're never alone.
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forget. Love lifts up where knowledgetakes flight
You're listening to WCAT radio, yourhome for authentic Catholic programming. Hello,
and welcome to the Heart of Fiatcrucified Love. We are going to do
a podcast today at the end ofJune on the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
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if you didn't guess. I hadwanted to do this at the beginning of
June, but time kind of gotaway from me, and I wanted to
really spend the month of June meditatingon this gift of the Sacred Heart that
the Church gives to us. SoI can share with you a lot of
the riches. What is this giftof the Sacred Heart, particularly given to
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us in the month of June.How can we live a daily life,
an ordinary life in union with theSacred Heart. How can we respond to
the graces that the Lord is given? And what is he asking of us
in this revelation. So many timespeople when they think of the Sacred Heart,
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they go back to the revelations ofSaint Margaret Mary ala Coke, which
is very beautiful, or even SaintFaustina where Jesus gave her that image of
his heart ripped open and the bloodand water coming forth. But I would
like to go to some reflections thatI have from a really beautiful book that
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focus a little bit more on SaintGertrude the Great and Saint Mechtilde, who
also had a great devotion to theSacred Heart, and what the Lord shared
with them might not be known aswell to some of you. And then
I have some beautiful art here I'llexplain what we're going to use visually to
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help us, but we should beginwith a song. And the song that
was on my heart was Lord,I need you right because the gift of
the Sacred Heart to us is avery personal gift of the human love of
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the man Jesus Christ. It's divinelove, which is you know, that
fire that we see coming from it. And yet sometimes we forget that Christ's
heart loved us with a very human, manly love. And when we recognize
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that love, then we recognize howdependent we are upon him, not just
like a in a heady spiritual way, but in a very concrete way.
Right to be our defense, tobe our fortress, to be our everything.
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We see how much we need theLord the same way that a wife
is dependent on her husband for manythings, We as the Church are dependent
on the heart of Christ, asour beloved husband, as our Lord,
and we are called to have anexchange of hearts with him, really in
a beautiful way. So let's startin the name of the Father and of
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the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful enkindlein us the fire of your love.
Send forth your spirit, and wewill be recreated. And thou shalt renew
the face of the earth. Lord, I come, I confessus a week
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I find my rast. Without you, I fall apart. You're the one
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that guides my home. Lord,I need you, Oh wa need you,
and every I need you. Mywane defens my ridecha sad, Oh
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God, how WHI need you.We're sending ornsteam. Your grais more where
grace is from. That's where youare. Where you are, Lord,
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I am free, O lea ischristen me. Lord, I need you,
Oh why need you? And everyI need do by one defense my
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ride jesusness, Oh God, howI need you, so teach my song
to rise to you when temptation comesmy wit, when I cannot stand to
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fall on you gesus your You're mywhole anstay or dy you O wh need
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do Avery. I need you,my waney defenses, my ride chestiness.
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Oh God, how I need You'remy wall defense, You're my right chestness.
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Oh God, how I need you. In the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Ali Lujah, I need
to cut that nail. We're notgoing to pray anything longer right now,
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because at the end I'd like todo some prayers together to the Sacred Heart.
After we reflect right now on thisgreat gift. I'd like at first
to draw your attention on the artaround me. This is a beautiful image
that I actually founded a Hispanic junkstore for like twenty dollars. It's so
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beautiful. But what strikes me isthe heart of Jesus. It's on fire.
You can see the blood coming out. You can see the crown of
thorns. It's cannetted inside of himto his wounds. Think about it.
It makes Christ be able to bleedfrom his hands and his feet. It's
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his heart pumping blood forth and asit goes through his veins that pours out
of his hands. Christ's hands arewounded here, and so although he's holding
his heart in his hands, offeringit to us, it's still connected to
him. Think about even the tensionof that pain, and there's a cross
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that conquers and a fire of loveand great light that illumines us from the
heart of Christ. Right, youthink about the heart of Christ and the
Eucharist. His eucharistic heart is hissacred heart. It's the same thing body,
bloods, soul, and divinity.And in the mystery of the Eucharist,
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he does the same thing. Hetakes that heart connected with membranes,
to his own body, and hepulls it forth and he offers it to
us. And if we receive thatheart into ourselves it's still attached to Christ,
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then we become attached to Christ.We become one with him. Saint
Mechtilde and Saint Gertrude speak a lotabout that exchange of hearts that the Lord
had with them. It's so beautiful. So about two weeks ago, one
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of the children that I nanny for, we went to hobby lobby and bought
canvasses. I like to do thatwith them, and we all paint together,
and she decided to do the sacredHeart. So I decided to do
one quickly with her. All Right, I just had children's paint there.
But I brought these out because it'sthat simplicity of a child's image of the
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sacred heart that is so incredible inteaching the profound truths is that we're going
to talk about of the love ofChrist. Right, So you see,
both of ours have the heart,the Cross of Christ that pierces through.
It's beautiful to look at, butimagine what that means for the wood of
the cross to splinter through the verycore of your being, right, the
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center of your being, the centerof your nerves. Imagine the pain when
you hit a nerve. Now takea whole cross, a whole tree,
not just a little splinter, andstick it through. Right, Think about
people impalled. And the cross ofChrist goes directly through the center of his
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being. Why, in order torip open his love so it will pour
forth upon all of us in theworld. He has the crown of thorns
surrounding his heart. His love,this beautiful, pure gift of his selfless
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love, was mocked. That's whatthe crown of thorns represents, the mockery
of man of the love of Christ. A lot of us have been mocked
in our lives. Right, youthink about children on a recess, you
know, parking lot, or youknow, maybe in a family where you
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know, sarcism just goes a littlebit too far. Right. Then there's
like the evil people who mock Christiansin general and as being a Christian,
you know, we take that asa personal offense. But I don't think
that there's any form of mockery thatwould be as painful as a lover mocked
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by their beloved. Imagine and authentically, selflessly, purely offering the gift of
love to another human being and havingthem ignore it is terribly painful. Having
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them reject it is even more painfulto say I don't want your gift,
I don't want your love, Idon't want your friendship anymore. But having
them mock it is sadistic. OnlySatan mocks love and Christ. He wears
that crown of thorns on every imageof his heart that we see. Look
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here, this beautiful statue from MexicoI was given. He wears it as
a badge, as a trophy kindof to say, regardless of the mockery
you throw at me, I willlove you more. Look at the fire
bursting forth from his heart. It'slike when you throw you know, water
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on oil fire, sometimes it willspread even more. Right, it just
lights it more on fire, Itdoesn't put it out. So the more
that Christ's love is mocked, themore like a furnace, it burns to
give itself to heal those who mockhim. The crown of thorns is on
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his heart like a prison. Imaginea prison cell with the metal bars holding
them in. Those crown of thornsthat they wrapped around his head, that
even more proverbally, in his heart, bound his love that is boundless,
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confined his love in the prison ofdarkness, And yet Christ was free.
What did he say, I willinglylay down my life. I willingly take
it up again. He used thatbinding to explode his love out even further.
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Right, Think about Christ in thetabernacle, bound, waiting to give
his love to us in a profoundway. Think about the nails that bind
him to the cross, and heuses that to open our hearts that are
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so hard and so closed, andso cold, so indifferent. The Church
gives us the month of June tomeditate on the sacred heart because we need
to meditate on the safe heart.When Christ talks about making up in reparation
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to the sins, against his heart. Does it help Christ when we do
that? Does it help Christ whenwe love him back and one inside?
No, because he's divine, hedoesn't need our love. On the other
side, Yes, because he ishuman and he thirsts for our love.
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Right, every image of the sacredHeart could have those words written above it.
I thirst, I thirst. AndYet the greatest reason Christ offers his
sacred heart to us and asks usto love him in return is not for
himself. It's for us. Becausewhen God created us in the womb of
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our parents and breathed his life intous, he breathed a need for the
love of God to live within us. Just as an unborn baby is dependent
on their mother to live. Ifyou rip a child from their mother's womb
before the time has come that theycan live on their own, they will
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die. And we were created tobe that dependent on Christ always, so
that if you rip us from theheart of Christ, we'll die. He's
our source of oxygen, he's oursource of food, he's our source of
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protection, he's our source of direction. He carries us where we need to
go. It's a beautiful image toreflect on. To live within the heart
of Christ as an unborn baby livesin the heart of their mother that dependent
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upon them. And so in themonth of June we're called not only to
think about the heart of Jesus,you know, once on the Feast of
the Sacred Heart, but every dayto dive deep into the riches of the
Church, to meditate on what thatheart represents, what that gift of love
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is. To gaze upon images ofthe Sacred Heart everywhere, because we become
what we look at, we becomewhat we love. Over the centuries,
Christ has revealed the gift of hissacred heart to many, many saints.
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Sometimes he's spoken too, saints abouthis darkness, or you know, the
wound of his hands, or butno, no mystery has been more greatly
expounded to saints than the mist ofthe heart of Jesus Christ his heart.
And it began with Saint John.It began in the Last Supper. Why
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because as we spoke, that giftof the eu Christ to us was the
gift of the heart of Christ.And in the Last Supper, Jesus drew
his beloved disciple John upon his heart, and John heard the heartbeat of Christ
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the same way that Christ within thewomb of Mary heard that heartbeat of love,
right, that maternal love that ourladies shed on Christ and Utero he
sheds upon us. Right. Thinkabout a newborn baby pressed up against the
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heart of their father. That's thekind of love that Christ wants to offer
us. Think about a wife whosehead lays upon the chest of her beloved
husband. That's the kind of lovehe wants to give. I take care
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of a lot of twins and triplets, multiple babies. I just I love
them. That's so beautiful. Whenthey're first born, you can't separate them.
You put them even in separate partsof their crib or their best and
it and they find each other.They coddle up. They want to be
close to that other little heartbeat thatthey had shared for so many months.
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Right. Little babies love the soundof a heartbeat. If you have a
sound machine, it's so powerful whena baby is crying when they're brand new,
especially if you just turn on thesound of a heart beating. They
know that sound. It's the soundof their mom. Christ asks us to
use all of our senses as littlechildren to absorb his love. The mystics
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talk about what it means to listento the heartbeat of Christ, like Saint
John did right to allow our heartbeatto be in unison with his, to
use his heartbeat as an examination ofconscience. What does Christ's heart beat for
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for the will of the Father tobe done? Right? It's fia aba,
fia aba, I will be done. So when we listen to his
heartbeat, we hear our own heartbeat. We see where our hearts are out
of sync with the Lord. Right. You know, we're kind of like
fia aba. But I really wantthat new car, fiat abba. But
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I'm gonna judge that person. FiatAbba. Oops, I ate too much
last night. Fi Ah. Butwhatever it is, the world, the
flesh, the devil, it takesour attention, and it distracts us from
that pure love of sharing the heartbeatof Christ and living every footstep of our
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life in unison with his heartbeat.Christ knew it would be hard, and
he knew we were people of thesenses. So not only did he reveal
to Saint John the sound of hisheartbeat, right, she shared the image
of his heart with many saints sothat we would paint it, so we
would gaze upon it, so wewould meditate upon it, so that we
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could focus on absorbing that gift.And he knew that our heartbeat would be
tempted to chase after things of theworld, right, riches, fame,
understanding, and so he gave usnot only the image of his heart,
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but the physical heart of his lovein the Eucharist. That is why He
gave us his sacred heart. Inthe Eucharist. Every single day, every
day, every second, three chalicesare raised on an altar in the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass. Somewhere inthe world. Every second, three patterns
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have the Sacred Heart laying upon them. And He doesn't just enter bread for
the sake of bread. He wantsus to come and to receive him as
often as possible so that he canchange our heart beat into his. Christ
doesn't want to just like sit likea picture across from us and I have
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us look at each other. Heactually wants an exchange of hearts. Part
one section of my doctorate writing thatI did here in February was going through
the different mystical marriage experiences of manyof the saints, both male and female,
and they speak about this gift ofthe exchange of hearts with Christ.
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Some of them Christ took and imprintedthe physical signs of His passion upon their
heart, pierced their hearts with asword. Right, we have that beautiful
statue of Terce of Avala and Romethat shows her being pierced by the sword
of an angel. Why it's theangel was bringing the Cross of Christ to
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planet within her. Saint Clair ofMontefalco, Saint Veronica Giuliani had the physical
images of Christ and his passions crosson their hearts, and when they died
and they did autopsies, they foundthem. Their hearts are still preserved with
these images. Christ wants to exchangehearts with us. It's like that passage
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in the Ezekiel that God said,I will come and I will take your
your hard hearts, your thorny hearts, your hearts of stone, and I
will give you new hearts, heartsof flesh. The Father says, I'll
give you the very heart of myson, and Jesus in Saint John's Gospel
says, like I am the vine, you are the branches. Remain in
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my love, Remain in a livingrelationship of indwelling love with me, where
my heart lives in you and yourheart lives in me. I have many
different beautiful writings I go through tomeditate on the Sacred Heart. I have
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a whole book from Saint John D'sI should have pulled that one down too,
but the one I grabbed is thisone. It's it's it takes actually
gets every day of June. Itgives you a reflection, but you could
read it at any time, inany order. And it has to do
with the devotion to the Sacred Heartaccording to Saint Gertrude. But there's also
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a lot with Saint Machteld and Iwant to share with you just some of
what the Lord himself shared with herabout this mystery of his sacred Heart.
Saint John the Beloved appeared to herand spoke to her about the beating heart
of Christ. Right, and SaintJohn said, in the early time of
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the Church, we were confined tospeak of the divine Word, the eternal
Son of the Father, and somewords of deep meaning upon which human intelligence
might meditate forever without ever exhausting theirriches. Right. So from the beginning
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of the Church we were given theword of Christ in the gospels. But
to these latter times was reserve thegrace of hearing the eloquent voice of the
heart of Jesus. At this voice, the time worn world will renew its
youth, be roused from its lethargy, and again be inflamed with the warmth
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of divine love. So at thebeginning of the church, what does it
go out and proclaim the gospel?They proclaim the teachings of Christ. Christ
taught us a new way to live. Think about the sermon of the on
the mount right. The beatitudes.Do not start up treasures on earth.
Do not judge, love your enemies, Do good to those who hurt you.
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Pray for those who persecute you.You are the salt of the earth.
You are the light of the world. Beautiful teachings. But in these
latter times, Christ saw that notonly did people need to learn how to
live with their mind, they hadlost love in their heart. So he
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revealed his sacred heart and his loveitself in a more profound way. Every
single image of the sacred Heart thatyou see Christ is pointing at his heart,
bloody, bound on fire with love. And Saint Gertrude talks about the
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Lord telling her to enter and livewithin the sacred Heart, and he quotes
the Book of Revelation three verse eight. I have given before you a door
that is opened, which no mancan shut, because you have lived strength.
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What is the door open that Christgives to us that no man can
shut the door of his heart?He allowed that sword. Look at what
my little gal did. She said, I want that arrow, that sword
that pierces him, So she drewit right. He allowed his heart to
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be pierced after his death, sothat the open wound would remain forever.
When somebody's alive, if they getwounded, that wound heals immediately. Cells
begin to heal that wound. Ifyou have a death wound, if you
are cut open after you die,there's no renewal. That gaping wound of
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his heart was open forever as adoor inviting us in. And not only
does Christ want us to enter hislove to live in his heart. Every
day he says to us, Istand at the door and knock. He
knocks upon our heart, and heasks us, with our free will,
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to open our hearts and to allowhim to enter in unabashedly, to see
the ugliness of our heart and toclean it, to see the weakness,
the brokenness, to heal it,to strengthen it, to see the emptiness
to fill it. And it's sobeautiful of this exchange of hearts, because
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when we enter and live in Christand we allow him to live in us,
he transforms us into another of himself, another face of himself in the
world. We begin to see withhis eyes, to judge with his mind.
You know, in his thoughts areabove our thoughts and our ways.
He judges people as the King oflove, not of condemnation, not rashly,
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not in your face. He onlypoints out wounds if he's capable of
healing and bringing holiness forth from them. Right. He enters into us and
asks us to live in him sowe can hear and listen with his ears.
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Sometimes we listen to what people say, but sometimes we're listening to the
Holy Spirit explaining what they didn't say, explaining, you know, what's really
going on. He enters into usand asks us to enter into him so
that our mouths may only speak hiswords that are blessing, that give life
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to other people. If your wordsdo not build up somebody, give them
strength, give them joy, givethem peace, then don't speak them.
He enters into us, and weenter into him so that our actions may
be done in him. Whether itbe cleaning the floor or you know,
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taking out the trash, doing youraccounting at work, whatever it is,
when we do them in Christ andallow Christ to live in us, it
purifies with that fire of love everythingordinary. Like at the wedding of Cana
he changes the ordinary water into wine, and later at the Mass he changes
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the wine into his blood. Whenwe live from an exchange of hearts with
Jesus Christ, he changes everything inour lives that is ordinary into extraordinary,
just because we're doing it with divinelove. For divine love. There's a
little girl that I was taking careof once, and she was upset because
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she had done some chores for herparent and didn't get the allowance she had
been hoping for. She was justso distress, and I said to her,
I understand your disappointment. Right,you were expecting something and you didn't
get it. I said, sometimesI work for people who don't pay me
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justly, right, or at leastwhat we had agreed on or was expected.
But the thing is when you dowhat you do because it's right.
When you're doing chores around a housejust because you're part of that house,
right to love your mom, totake care of what God has given you.
When you do them and offer themas a sacrifice to Jesus in love,
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then they still have meaning. It'snot pointless even if you don't get
an allowance that you want. Sooften that's what keeps my heart at peace
when disappointments come. When I dosomething and it seems like it failed right,
or maybe it is something like workand you're not recompensed adequately, or
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even you do an act of lovefor another person and they outright reject it
or mock it or ignore it.It's not for naught. It's not for
nothing if you're doing it with Jesusout of love for Jesus, because the
love that imbues it itself is priceless. It's beyond the worth of gold.
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Jesus told Saint Gertrude how important itwas in our times that we share this
devotion to the Sacred Heart, thatwe have images of the Sacred Heart,
that we read the writing of theSacred Heart, and the messages that Jesus
gave Gertrude and Mechtilde and Margaret Maryright Saint John Hugh's. He said,
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I wish that your writings of theSacred Heart about the love of my heart
be for the latter times a proofof the tenderness of my heart. I
will make them a great source ofgrace to many souls. While you write
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well, I will keep your heartnear to my heart, and I will
instill into it, drop by dropwhat you are to say. Christ hold
Saint Gertrude close to his heart andtells her what to write for us.
But the same as when we meditateon the Sacred Heart, when we read
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her words, when we listen toChrist just speak deep within us. He
doesn't just want to speak to ourears or to our mind, but from
heart to heart. When we readas messages to the saints, where we
receive you know his words and prayer, or maybe not even words, maybe
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it's just a to much of hislove. He imprints that love upon us.
We probably won't have the instruments ofhis passion physically visible on our bodies
or in our hearts, like Clearof Montefalco or Veronica Giuliani. Right,
and yet mystically we are to bearthose wounds and that imprint of his love
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to the world. Mystical means hiddenlyright, it might not be seen.
Jesus spoke to Saint Mechtilde about thewound of love in his heart, saying,
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in this wound of love so greatthat it embraces heaven and earth and
all that they contain, Unite yourlove to my divine love. Press your
heart up against tim Take the deepestheart wounds that you have, and press
them against his heart wounds. Unitewith them in love, and through this
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your heart will become perfect. It'sthrough your wounds, united to his,
that you will become perfect. Evenas iron glowing with fire, becomes as
it were, one with it,Let your love be transformed and absorbed into
mind. Right, allow that fireof love to consume you. At first,
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it might kind of hurt, itmight bother you. Why because it'll
purify you. The closer that lightof Christ comes to you with the fire
of love, the more you'll seeyour imperfections. You'll see your negligences,
you'll see your faults. And yetif you lean into it, if you
offer it to the Lord, it'sburned away at all. All that's left
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is love. And then the saintssay, when you reach that point,
love and do what you will.Right. John of the Cross says that
the end of life will only bejudged by love. Saint Vincent de Paul
said, let love be your law. You can only do that when you've
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allowed the love of Christ to consumeall of you, selflessly, humbly,
purely. I marked a few morepages. One day, Saint Gertrude was
holding her crucifix, kissing it,and the Lord said to her, each
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time that a man does so kissesa crucifix kisses, the heart of Christ
merely looks upon a crucifix, ormy sacred heart with devotion, the mercy
of God looks down upon his soul. He ought then to think in his
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heart that these tender words are addressedto him. Behold, how for thy
love I have willed to be attachedto a cross, naked, disfigured,
covered with wounds, and with allmy members violently distended. My heart is
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so passionately enamored of THEE, thatwere it necessary in order to save THEE,
I would again willingly endure for THEEalone, all that I have suffered
for the salvation of the whole world. Christ wants us to look at his
heart. He allowed it to bepierced open on the cross. He revealed
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it to the saints It's like heripped his bloody heart open and said,
look, because he knows we needto look in order to have our desires
purified, have our love inflamed.But every time we do that and we
feel that thirst rise up within us, a thirst to assouge the suffering of
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Christ, to unite with it,to compassionate. God himself, in his
great mercy, looks down upon us, and Jesus continued to reveal that love
of his heart in the Eucharist.To Saint Gertrude, my delights are to
be with the children of men.To satisfy my love. I have instituted
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the sacrament. I have obliged myselfto remain therein even to the end of
the world, and I wish itto be frequently received. Should anyone deter
a soul from communion, he wouldimpede the delight of my heart. I
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have done my most to manifest thetenderness of my heart and the blessed Eucharist.
When impelled by the veheminence of mylove, I enter a soul by
communion. I fill it with graces, and all the inhabitants of heaven and
earth, all the souls in purgatoryexperience at the same moment a new effect
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of My bounty. All of thechurch, both here below and in heaven
and in purgatory, experience a movementof grace when we receive the Eucharist with
love. So make every possible attemptto be able to do that as often
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as possible. Right, If youare the father of a family and you
have to work, and there's nodaily mass set lines up with your work,
your desire will satisfy. Okay.Your first responsibility when you're in the
world, like a father and ahusband or a mother and a wife,
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is to your daily duty. Sofor a husband to provide for their family
to go to work. Right,Hopefully there's masses where you can hit,
but that's the most important for mother. You don't want to leave a sick
child in order to go to mass. You know God wants you to stay
with them, so you have todo your daily duty. But if you
can, in the midst of yourdaily duty go to Mass every day,
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the entire church will benefit. Andit's okay if it's not perfect. Right,
it's okay. If your child's screamingand you have to spend most of
the time in the vestibule. It'sokay if you get out of work ten
minutes late and you get there,you know, right before the gospel for
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a daily Mass. The Lord justwants to see that you stop to see
him. Right. Maybe you're sotired. I remember working all night and
being so tired. I just fallasleep when I get into church. But
it's okay because God looks at thedesires that you have for him. Right.
He only requires us to be fullypresent on Sunday, but he calls
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us to try to make the eucharstthe center of our lives, according to
our state of life. You know, religious sisters have that gift of others
providing for them so that they cando that. Right. For many years
when people understood my vocation, Ihad that gift and I would spend ten
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fifteen hours a day in church.Once the world did not understand that,
I've had to work. Right,I pray that someday people will provide for
me as a soul given fully toGod the way that they did in the
past, so that I can stilldo that. But in the meantime,
God looks at our desires. Infact, I folded that page over beautiful
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God counts our desires as the action. To be quite honest, here he's
asking us to come to holy communionas much as powerful. He said to
Saint Mechtilde, nothing gives me somuch delight as the heart of man,
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of which I am so often deprived. I have all good things in abundance.
The heart of man alone is stillwanting to me. God, the
creator of heaven and earth, haseverything at his disposal, but he can't
grasp the heart of man, becausehe created us free. We have to
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give our heart to him freely.But the heart of Jesus is all desire,
it says in scripture, totem deciderumright in Latin, total desire.
That's why every image of Christ hasa fire coming from it, because it's
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to show us his burning desire,that burning thirst for us, for our
love. And he waits for us, He waits for us to come.
And Saint Catherine of Siena talks aboutthis powerful gift of desire that the Lord
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shares with us. He doesn't justdesire us. He wants us to burn
with a desire to love him,to be one with him. He wants
us to have a burning desire forour neighbor. And it comes from this
fire of love of his heart livingin us, where we look at our
suffering brother and sister, and weburn with the fire of love to help
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them, to excuse them, tobe an instrument of their salvation. Saint
Catherine of Siena cried out, myGod, how will you be able in
these unhappy times to provide for theneeds and the wants of your church.
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I know that you what you willdo, your love will raise up men
of desire. Their finite works,joined to infinite desire, will make you
hear their prayers for the salvation ofthe world. We don't have to be
perfect. We have to try ourbest and give it to the Lord and
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allow him to perfect it. Right, so we take our ordinary lives.
You know, I think about theordinary life of my parents. For years.
My dad left it the house atyou know, six thirty seven in
the morning. He came home atsix thirty seven at night. He was
lucky if he could go to dailyMass at noon. But he took this
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ordinary providing for us, doing gardening, doing the plumbing right, helping take
care of the foster children we broughtin, or taking us to sporting events.
Those ordinary things united with a powerfuldesire to love and serve. God
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made all of those ordinary actions somethingthat changed the world. And you might
say, oh, you know,I'm fifty, i'm sixty, I'm seventy.
I wasted my life. It's okay, do it. Now go back
and say, Lord, all ofthese ordinary things I've been doing, right,
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wrong, or indifferent, I uniteto your sacred heart and I offer
them now, use them, now, Use the time I spend in daily
mass or daily adoration to transform whathas been ordinary in my earthly life to
extraordinary love that converts sinners. Inthese times when souls are weak, the
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heart of Jesus looks to us forgreat desires, to supply for the suffering
which is beyond our strength. Jesussaid, always offer me, with a
contrite and humble heart, the desireto endure, were it necessary for all
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my glory, all the sufferings ofthe world till the end of time,
and you will obtain from my heartwhatever you ask. All you have to
do is say I love you somuch I desire. It doesn't mean that
Christ is going to come with athunderstorm of nails and destroy you. What
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does he say, come to myyoke is easy, my burden light.
He wants to help us, Hewants to be a good shepherd, to
lift us onto his shoulders. Butwhen he sees us burn with infinite desire
to suffer with him, to lovethat greatly that any prayer we ask will
be granted. Saint John Berkman said, there are, in fact a certain
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number of saints who become saints onlyby their desires. Look at terresav Lasou.
She had a burning desire to bea missionary, and she was a
carmelite. She's a patron's ain't ofmissions. Her desire was enough. So
recognize those great desires in your heart, in your life and your prayer,
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even if they seem to contradict thereality of what you can do, and
just offer him to the Lord.Your desire is great, Your desire is
enough. Saint Claude de la Columbia, who was the spiritual director of Margaret
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Maryella Coke, he said, whenhe was speaking about a vow he made
to be perfect, God could notfail to take the desire for the reality.
He said, God sees my desireto be perfect, and it's enough.
He fulfills that desire. We're calledto be people of desire. So
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Saint Gertrude, Jesus is talking toher about the souls she's praying for their
conversion, and he says to her, make them come into heart, those
souls for whom you've prayed this week, I wish to have them at my
table. And she said, howLord can I make them under your heart?
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Unworthy as I am? If Icould draw to you these men with
whom you want to take delight in, I would willingly go from now until
the day of Judgment with bare feetin search of them throughout the whole world.
I would take them in my armsand come and offer them to you,
in order to satisfy, even inthe slightest degree, the infinite desire
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of your divine heart. But howcan I do it? And Jesus said
to her, your desires and yourgoodwill suffice for all. So don't worry
about perfection. Right you desire togo spend an hour with him in adoration,
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and your baby as a bad diaper, Or you get a important phone
call you can't leave work, Yetyour desire to be with him makes up
for it. And when you getthere, you get there right, you
could try to go to confession.This happens to me all the time,
where I'll like, be set,I'm going to go to confession, and
every time I go, there's atrain, there's an emergency, there's a
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thunderstorm, there's a long line.It's okay. Your desire itself is purifying
your heart, and God knows you'llgo when he allows. I'm looking here,
for I've folded a few pages over. Jesus said to Saint Gertrude.
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I wish that all the words ofthis book, which you offer me,
or rather which my spirit himself isdictated, should be filled with the richness
of my love. Whosoever coming tome with a contrary and humble heart,
shall desire to read herein for thelove of my love, I will make
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him repose upon my heart, andwill show him as with my finger,
the place is most suitable and adventatiousto him. So not only does Christ
want to pull us into his heart, he wants us to meditate in that
heart with him. He's going topull you in his heart and say here,
look, great, here is mypatience. That's what I want you
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to work on. Oh, here'sforgiveness. Here's generosity. Right, here's
piety, here's a lack of judgment, rash judgment. And Jesus said to
Saint Mechtilde that he wanted her tobe his greatest friend. He said,
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my heart is your greatest friend,he said, My chosen one, as
you see, lives always with meand seeks only to fulfill the good pleasure
of my heart. As soon asshe knows my wish on one point,
she fulfills it immediately, then triesto find out my further desires that she
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may satisfy them at once. Thus, all her life is spent in loving
and pleasing me with the most perfectfriendship. Christ doesn't want us just to
look at his heart or to beexcited about his heart, but to live
his will, to live as hisheart asks, right, and he asks
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that we have an exchange of heartwith him. He asks that we pray,
yes, Lord, take all,and give all. Take all of
my misery, since indeed I possessnothing else, Give me all that you
will of your riches. Make melike you, amiable and loving, that
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your heart may rejoice in loving meas much as it desires, and seeing
itself loved by me as much asit has a right to expect so beautiful.
Saint Gertrude said to Jesus, Ifind nothing on earth in which I
can take pleasure except in you alone, my Lord, who are full of
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sweetness. And Jesus said to her, and I find no delight in heaven
or earth without you, because I'veassociated you by love to all of my
joys, so that I enjoy nosatisfaction apart from you my satisfaction. The
greater will the fruit for you be. Saint Jesus also told Saint Gertrude,
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if anyone will generously renounce his ownwill to seek only my good pleasure,
my divine heart will illuminate him witha vivid light to know my wishes.
I will show him in what hehas failed with regard to his rule,
which is the expression of my will, and will atone with him for all
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his shortcomings. Like a good masterinstructing a dearly loved child, I will
let him lean on my heart.I will gently point out to him his
faults. I will kindly correct whathe has done amiss, and supply what
he has neglected. If, asa heedless child, he pays no attention
to some points, I will attendto them for him and make up what
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he has passed over. Jesus asksus to pay three debts to his heart
through our love of his heart.We are to pay the debt of atonement
for all of our faults. Sowe are to love his heart enough to
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atone for our faults. The debtof gratitude for the grace is received.
We're to look at his heart andall these graces he's given us and to
love to make up that debt andthe debt of charity towards God and man.
We're called to love him because ofthe great love he demands of us,
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both towards himself as God and toour neighbor. Lastly, he asks
us to be a victim of lovewith him, to not only allow ourselves
to be set on fire, butto be pierced with him to take It's
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not even like our own suffering.Say we're selfish and we're around Christ.
We might be uncomfortable because we seeour own selfishness right, and it purifies
us. Then he asks us togo step further to suffer, to purify
the selfishness of our brothers and sistersin the world. Right, Jesus asks
us to be a victim with him, and also to be a victim of
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his desires. It's so beautiful.He is such a desire for us to
be holy, that as he poursout his love upon us, we're a
victim of that love. In away, we're burnt to a crisp We're
transformed into him. Jesus accepts thedesires of our hearts as if they were
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realized. He said to Saint Gertrude. The good will of a man is
undertaking this work to fulfill my desire, notwithstanding the difficulties he meets with,
is most agreeable to me, andI accept that goodwill for the deed.
I accept it. If you're burningwith a desire to do something for the
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Lord, to fulfill it right,and something out of your control prevents it
from happening, God takes that desireas the reality, even if he be
unable to succeed, I reward himas if he had accomplished it right.
The heart of Jesus may derive moreglory from a desire of the realization of
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it that's been sacrificed than from thesatisfaction we would have felt in doing it
right. Jesus said, if ifI grant your desires, I will follow
you to whatever better flowers that youchoose. But if you sacrifice your desires
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to my good pleasure, you followme to the garden of delights, where
I find my greatest happiness. Sosay you have a really good idea to
do something to honor the sacred heartright, but it's not God's will.
It pleases him that you're trying,but it gives him greater love when you
sacrifice your way of doing things,your will for his. I will be
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better pleased with you if you experiencethe desire and the privation of it.
Then if you gain your wish andenjoy the pleasure of doing what you wanted.
We want to even sacrifice to theLord our holy desires, so that
his desires for our life may dwellwithin us. Saint Gertrude said, Oh,
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how I long to be consumed?Was so burning a love that my
heart could liquefy itself and be lostentirely in thee. And Jesus answered her,
your desires are the fire which soliquify your soul, that my love
may absorb it into my divine heart. He said to Saint Machtelde offer me
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in your heart a desire which includesall the desires and all the love which
men have ever been able to offerme. And I'll accept this desire of
your heart as if you really hadsuch an intense and widespread love. And
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so there's so much more I couldshare, but we are almost up with
our time. I want to brieflytouch at the end of this podcast on
the powerful promises that God that Jesusgave to Saint Margaret Mary Ala Coke to
those who honor his sacred heart.Right we hear from Gertrude and Mechtild this
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exchange of hearts, this fire oflove that Christ wants to consume in us.
To Saint Margaret Mary Alacoke, hegave twelve very very concrete promises of
things that he would do for herand for all souls who honor His sacred
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heart, especially through an image ofit in their home right by doing a
consecration to it, an enthronement.If you honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus
in your life, in your home, if you get an image of it,
you display it, you pray,you allow his love to consume you,
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you imitate him. Then One,he will give you all the necessary
graces for your state in life.Whatever vocation you have, he will give
you the graces you need to becomeperfect in it to be a saint.
Number two he'll establish peace in ourhomes. Number three he will console us
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in all of our troubles. Numberfour he will be there are refuge during
life, and at the hour ofdeath, will always be able to run
within his heart and hide and rest. Five he will bestow abundant blessings upon
all of our undertakings. Anything wedo for the Lord, he'll bless.
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Six sinners will find in my heartthe source and infinite ocean of mercy.
Seven lukewarm souls will become fervent.Eight fervent souls will quickly rise to great
perfection. Nine he will bless everyplace in which an image of his Sacred
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Heart is shown in eyes. Tenhe will give to priests the gift of
touching the most hardened of hearts.Eleven those who promote this devotion to the
Sacred Heart will have their names writtenin my heart, never to be erased.
And twelve he says, I promiseyou, in the excessive mercy of
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my heart that my all powerful lovewill grant to all those who receive Holy
Communion on the first Friday in nineconsecutive months the grace of final perseverance.
They will not die in disgrace norwithout receiving their sacraments. My Divine Heart
will be their safe refuge. Inthis last moment, Jesus asks us not
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only in the month of June toremember his Sacred Heart, but every First
Friday, every Friday, but thenevery first Friday especially, that we go
to Mass, that we meditate uponHis sacred Heart and that love, that
we exchange our hearts with him.That we go to confession, that we
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pray for the Holy Father and theChurch. And here at the end we
pray a few prayers. We praya daily prayer to the Sacred Heart,
almost Holy Heart of Jesus, fountainof every blessing. I adore you,
I love you, and with livelysorrow for my sins, I offer you,
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my poor heart. Make me humble, patient, pure and holy,
obedient to your will. Grant DearJesus, that I may live in you
and for you protect me when I'min danger, comfort me and affliction,
Give me health of body and mind, assistance in all of my temporal needs,
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your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy
day. Within your heart. Iplace all of my cares and you can
state your special intentions and every need. Let me come to you with humble
trust, saying, Heart of Jesus, help me. And there's a special
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prayer of reparation to the sacred Heart. Most sacred Heart of Jesus, have
mercy on me, Oh God,forgive me for all the sins of my
life, the sins of my youth, the sins of my age, the
sins of my body and mind,the sins of my soul, the sins
that I've confessed, the sins thatI've forgotten, the sins others against others
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and thought word indeed, and allof my sins of a mission. Oh
my God, I'm sorry for allmy sins. Because you are so good.
With your help, I will notsin again. Be merciful to me
a sinner, Divine Heart of Jesus, convert sinners, save the dying,
and deliver the holy souls in purgatory. Here is a special prayer of confidence
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to the sacred Heart, Oh LordJesus Christ, your most sacred Heart.
I offer these intentions, and youcan offer your greatest intentions. Look upon
me with love and do what yourheart inspires. Let your sacred heart decide.
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I count on you, I trustin you. I throw myself on
your mercy, Lord Jesus. Youwill not fail me, Sacred Heart of
Jesus. I trust in you,Sacred Heart of Jesus. I believe in
you your love for me, SacredHeart of Jesus, your kingdom. Come,
Sacred Heart of Jesus. I've askedyou for many favors, but I
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earnestly implore your goodness for these.Receive them and place them in your sacred
heart. When the Eternal Father looksupon these intentions covered with your precious blood,
he will not refuse them. Itwill be no longer my prayer but
yours, Oh Jesus, Sacred Heartof Jesus. I place all my trust
in you. Let me never bedisappointed. A healing prayer to this loving
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Heart of Jesus, Good and lovingGod. As I place my hands together
in prayer, my heart and mindturn to you, the source of all
healing. Fill me with your infinitelove. Let my weakness be replaced by
your strength. In all I sayand do. Guide me in ways that
are right and just, grant megood health to do your work here on
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earth. Let me be an instrumentof healing for others. That my actions
may offer compassion to all people.Touch my heart, Lord, that I
may be a channel of your infinitelove, especially for the poor and the
suffering. Inspire me to draw closeto you in my times of need.
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Help me to lead others to youby my good example, most Loving Heart
of Jesus. Bless me in healthand mind, body and spirit, that
I may serve you with all mystrength. Touch gently this life that you've
created, and let your Holy Spiritguide me now and forever. And an
offering to the Sacred Heart, myLoving Jesus, out of the grateful love
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I bear you as a reparation formy unfaithfulness to your grace, I give
you my heart, and I consecratemyself wholly to you. With your help,
I resolve to sin no more.Heart of Jesus burning with love for
us, inflame our hearts with lovefor you, and a prayer before the
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image of the Sacred Heart, OhSacred Heart of Jesus, Poor, out
your blessings on your church upon itspriests upon all its children. Bless my
family, friend's relatives a stay,and you can mention your special intentions,
sustain the just, grant true repentanceto sinners, assist the dying, deliver
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souls in purgatory, and extend overall hearts. The sweetness of your love
and the short prayer of Margaret MaryAlacoq, Oh Heart of Jesus, Heart
of Love, I place all mytrust in you, for I fear all
things from my own weakness, butI hope for all things from your goodness.
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Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto thine.
I encourage you, if you don'thave an image of the Sacred Heart
in your home, to get one. Put it in a prominent place.
You can have a priest come overand do an enthronement of your home and
your family to the Sacred Heart Heart. And if you're extra daring, you
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could buy yourself a set of cheappaints and you could paint an image of
the Sacred Heart yourself. Teach yourchildren to draw images of the Sacred Heart,
and talk about with your family,what are the virtues that are so
beautiful that we see reflected in theheart of Christ. What is he trying
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to offer to us to help usgrow in holiness? What does it mean
to go to communion to have thatexchange of hearts with him? Glory be
to the Father and to the Sonand to the Holy Spirit. As it
was in the beginning, is nownever sheldy world without an amen. Jesus,
meek and humble of heart, Makeour hearts like unto thine Amen.
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May not far be in the fireof your love. May we allly stand
stagether in the follier of your love. May the crawls be where not swell
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bad on your wounds to me,my other, May my fool can find
from your heart the follier of yourwillow. May you stay there forever on
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the crawls in your side, maybe consume with every drop of blood and
all the geers you cry. Maymy vel be your crown of thorns,
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and my read be afraid. Maymy hard lav on has one with you
in the rozaraction. For no man, Lord of bathom, leaden love as
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you do. If I do forget, please look at me. May your
eyes pierce me through. May mypillow be your arm outstretch Colverenbla made my
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spirit ever read choice with you ina turnedy made my spirit ever read choice
with you. O man gee geegee mine old gee gee salt geals my
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God. May never be all inthe fire of your love. May we
all always stands tagetherther in the fireof your love. May the crawl speed
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or up show bad than your wounds. Be mya bold. May my food
come forth from your heart the fireyour love. May I slave there for
whatever on the cross in your side. May I be consumed with every drop
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of blood and all the tears.Your crown be, my bed be a
crown of thorns, and my breedbe a flag. May my heart lay
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down as one with you in therise shine. For no man could ever
father and the world as you do. If I do you for good,
please look at me. May youreyes pass me through you. May my
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pillow be a arm outstretched cold ofbreath blood. May must be red ever
re joice with you and need toTrinity in love. May must be ever
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rejoice with you wal love. Hello, God's beloved. I'm Annabel Mosley,
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Author, professor of theology and hostof then Sings My Soul and Destination Sainthood
on WCAT Radio. I invite youto listen in and find inspiration along this
sacred journey. We're traveling together tomake our lives a masterpiece and with God's
grace, become saints. Join meAnnabel Moseley for then sings My Soul and
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Destination Sainthood on WCAT Radio. Godbless you. Remember you're never alone.
God is always with you. Thankyou for listening to a production of w
c AT Radio. Please join usin our mission of evangelization, and don't
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