In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska shares reflections on the power of living within the wounds of the Sacred Heart. She also shares reflections from many of the saints who spoke about allowing the Sacred Heart to inflame our own hearts -and how this fire of God's love can create an army of saints who are victims of Christ's love. She explains how many of the saints in the past were unable to do all that their hearts desired to do for the Lord, and how Jesus encouraged them by explaining that often one's heroic desires in love of Christ are equal in merit to the accomplishment of great things.
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So listening to WCAT radio your home for authentic Catholic programming.
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Hello, and welcome to the heart of Fiat crucified Love.
I wanted to come back this month before the month
of June is over the month to the Sacred Heart
and speak to one more time about the enormous treasure
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that the sacred Heart is, and try to enkindle that
furnace of love in your heart, a furnace of desire
for Christ.
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We're only able to receive.
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A gift and appreciate it to the degree that we
desire it, right, And so in order to receive the
fullness of the heart of Christ, full of infinite desire
for us and infinite divine love, we need him almost
a place within our hearts, his own infinite desire.
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And thirst for us. Right.
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So we're going to speak this week on the sacred
Heart and that fire of His love, and what it
means to be a victim of desire, and what it means.
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That desires themselves.
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Can satisfy for all that Christ is asking of us.
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Right.
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When God looked into the heart of David, he saw
someone whose heart was good, right, and he said, this
man has a heart that's similar to mine.
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And even one hundred times more.
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When Christ looked, or the Father looked into the heart
of our lady, he said, you know, this woman is
full of so much desire and longing for God and
the fulfillment of His will, that I must jump forth
from heaven.
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And enter her womb.
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Right, maybe I should actually make her a little more
visible here. And so Christ offers us this gift of
his own desire for us and our love, in the
gift of his sacred heart, as we see here behind me.
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In the gift of his wounds.
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He comes to us as the eternal High Priest with
that heart on fire, and he places within us his
eucharistic heart to enkindle our own cold hearts. So I
have much I want to share with you, and we're
gonna start with just a prayer.
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And and a song.
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As I was preparing briefly for this part of the
beginning of this.
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What came to me was that song impossible Things.
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So that's what we'll sing, because the gift that Christ
gives us is seemingly impossible, and yet.
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Nothing is impossible for God. Right.
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And I just picked up my guitar from having.
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It restrung.
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So I tuned it, but I hope it holds it
while we sing. I haven't played this one in a
while because it wasn't around available.
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So you guys can.
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Practice with me as we praised the Lord, and we
ask him to be ever present here in the name of.
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The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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A man, Come, Holy Spirit, all the hearts of your
faithful enkindle in all of us the fire of your love.
Send forth your spirit, and we can be recreated. And
thou it shalt renew the face of the earth. Sweet Jesus,
we asked you to draw us into your wounds as
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a cave, as a shelter for animals from the dangers
of the night, as a cave was a shelter for
your parents, and for your own little heart in Bethlehem.
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We ask that you dross into the.
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Cave of your wounds. We ask that we can hide
in these inner recesses of your heart the way that
the birds find rest from the heat of the day
in the side of the mountain. And just as a
spring can well up from the inner recesses of a
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mountain and pour forth down, gushing forth into a bigger
and a bigger river until it goes into the world.
We ask that you draw us to the source of
the spring of your love here in your sacred heart,
and that the blood that pours forth from your heart,
through your wounds and out to the world, the blood
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that we honor in this upcoming month of July, may
wash us that we may be dipped deep into this pool,
that we may be recreated by the Holy Spirit, so
that we can glorify you every breath, every heartbeat, every
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moment on.
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Earth, and then forever in the eternity.
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Sorry, I got interrupted there, So eman Alia, let's sing.
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You heal the broke and hard.
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You set the captive free, You left the heavy birded,
and even now you.
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Are left and me.
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There is no healer like the Lord Hermaker.
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There is no equal to the King of Kings, our Goddess.
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With us, we will fear no evil.
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You do impossible things you do impossible.
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I walk through the valley darkness around being me. There
you prepare table in the presence of my enemies. There
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is no healer like the Lord of Maker.
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There is no equal to the King of Kings, our Goddess.
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With us, we will fear no wavl You.
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Do impossible thing. You do impossible thing.
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One word, and the wall starts all.
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One word, and the blind will see.
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One word, and the sinners forgather.
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You two impossible things, You two impossible thing.
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You hear a broke in heart, You set the cab free,
You live the heavy bird.
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And even now you are left. And there is no
healer like the Lord of Maker. There is no equal
to the King of Kings.
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Our God is with us.
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We will fear wavl you too impossible things.
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You to impossible.
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Things by walk through the valley.
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Darkness surrounding me. There you prepare table in the presence
of my anomies.
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There is no healer like the Lord of her Maker.
There is no equal to the King of Kings. Our
God is with us.
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We will fear no weable you to impossible things.
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You to impossible the bat thing one word and the
ball start falling. One word, and the blind well see
one word, and the sinners for Gavin. You do impossible things.
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One word, and.
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The ball starts falling. One word, and the blind well.
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See one word, and.
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The sinners for Gavin.
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You do impossible thing. You to impossible thing, emen alainla
not you show right, Okay, not as saying.
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It's like I picked up the guitar. I'm like, I've
got to get back to the guitar.
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And I look over at my piano and I'm like,
I'm so vhand on my piano. I look at my
paint upstairs and I'm like, I need to finish this icon.
I am a woman of infinite desires, and that's what
we're gonna be talking about.
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So what does it mean to be a person of
many desires?
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So every year during the month of the Sacred Heart,
I read reflections on the Sacred Heart.
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And I've got four or five different books that I use.
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Saint Gertrude, Saint Mechtel, Saint John You, Saint Margaret Mary,
and then some ancient homilies. Oh that's this one, the
ancient Devotions to the Sacred Heart. It's from the fifteen
sixteen seventeenth Centuryians.
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Oh, it's so beautiful.
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This isn't even what I marked.
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But this is what I'm gonna start with.
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Oh my gosh, I'm gonna start with this and then
we'll talk about it.
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That's just incredible.
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This is from an anonymous Carthusian of Nuremberg, from a
work printed an old German in fourteen eighty.
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Okay, just incredible. The sacred heart of Jesus is the.
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City of refuge, right, We're talking about going into that
heart of Christ so that we can be satiated by
his desires, so that we can thirst.
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Enough to be filled.
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And so he's reflecting on the psalm be thou unto
me a house of refuge.
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I believe it's Psalm thirty.
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Oh Lord Jesus, christ inexhaustible fountain of love and grace.
I praise and thank THEE for the wound of thy
most holy side. We get to see that here as
we look at these images of the sacred Heart, and
we can we can gaze upon the wounds that were
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left from the cross right after the wound of thy
most sacred side received after death. For then, O Saint
of Saints, was thy right side so deeply pierced by
the soldier's spear that the point of the iron penetrated
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through thy breast, even into the midst of thy tender heart.
And from this large wound began to flow for us
the healing stream of blood and water, which fertilizes the
earth and saves the world. Oh, beneficient and wonderful shedding
of blood from the sight of Jesus slumbering on the
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cross and the sleep of death, for the redemption of
the human race. Almost pure and sweet stream of water
coming from our Saviour's.
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Breast to wash away all of our stains.
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Moses in the desert struck the rock, and there came
out a refreshing water, intended simply for the use and
comfort of the people of Israel and their flocks. But
when the fearless soldier Longinus, with his sturdy hand, struck
the rock.
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Of your heart with a.
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Spear, that is to say, when he cleft the right
side of Christ, there came out then and evermore a
mysterious fountain of water and of blood, from which our
chaste mother, the Holy Catholic Church draws her saving sacraments.
Eve was called the Mother of all the living. She
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was formed from a rib of her husband, Adam. The
Holy Church militant is called the mother of all who
are living by faith. She is formed from the side
of Christ, her spouse, O great, precious and loving wound
of my Savior. Thou art deeper than all the others,
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and open so wide that the faithful can enter in
a wound from which flowed unlimited and endless blessings. Wound
of the side inflicted the last, but became nevertheless the
most celebrated. Whosoever drinks deeply from the holy and divine
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source of this wound, or takes even a few drops,
will forget all his ills, will be set free from
the thirst for fleeting and vile pleasures, will be inflamed
with the love of eternal and heavenly things, filled with
the unutterable.
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Sweetness of the Holy Spirit.
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Then will flow into his soul a fountain of waters,
springing up into life everlasting. Enter o, my soul, Enter
into the right side of Thy crucified Lord. Enter through
this blessed wound into the center of the all loving
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Heart of Jesus, pierced through and through out of the
love for thee. Take thy rest in the clefts of
the rock, sheltered from the tempests of the world. Enter
into Thy God, covered with herbage and fragrant flowers.
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The path of life lies open before thee.
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This is the way of salvation, the bridge leading to heaven.
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The heart of.
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Jesus is a city of refuge in which we are
safe from the pursuit of the enemy. It's the city
of refuge which defends us from the wrath of an
angry judge. This heart is an inexhaustible fountain of the
oil of mercy for truly penitent sinners.
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This heart is.
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A source of the divine river, springing up in the
midst of paradise, to water the surface of the earth,
to quench the thirst of the dry and barren human heart,
to wash away sin, to extinguish the unholy fires of concupiscence,
to regulate the flights of the imagination, and to ally
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the fierceness of anger. Draw near, then, and take the
drought of love from this fountain of the Savior, in
order that thou may is no longer live to thyself,
but in Him who was crucified for THEE. Give thy
heart to Him, for he has opened his heart to THEE.
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Give not thy heart to the world, but to Christ,
thy Lord, Give it not to vain worldly wisdom, but
to eternal wisdom. Where can you rest more peaceively, dwell,
more securely, sleep more sweetly than in the wounds of
Christ crucified for THEE. O, all glorious and most amiable Jesus,
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creator of the mysterious and invisible world of grace, Thou,
guest of loving hearts, crucified example of souls crushed under
the weight of the cross, Thou who containest all the
riches and all the gifts of heaven. Jesus are King,
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our Savior of the faithful, who hast willed that thy
Holy Side should be opened by the point of a
ruthless lance. I humbly and fervently beseech Thee to open
to me the doors of thy mercy. Suffer me to
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enter through the large wound of thy adorable and most
holy side, into thy infinitely loving heart, so that my
heart may be united.
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To thy heart by an indissoluble bond of love. Wound
my heart with thy love.
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Let the soldier's spear penetrate my breast. Let my heart
be opened to THEE alone and close to the world
closed to the devil. Protect my heart, arm it against
the assaults of its enemies by the sign of your
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Holy Cross.
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Wow.
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What a beautiful prayer and way to open this podcast.
At the end of this presentation, I'll share with you
one more reflection here on the heart of Jesus as
a sure refuge by a holy writer named Lance Burgess.
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So I began to meditate on the Sacred Heart at
the beginning of June. And to be honest, I usually
fail at whatever I plan, Like you know, a fifty four.
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Day rose Reno Vina.
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I did that actually for like one hundred days, but
I didn't pray it as well as I thought, like
I didn't feel like I was. But like Lent, I
got these foster babies, and everything I wanted to do
kind of fell away. But I can't believe that I
actually got through all four of these books, meditating for
a special period of time every day during the month.
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Of June, praying not only to grow in my own.
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Fire of love for Christ, but in reparation for the offenses.
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Against his heart and his love, and to pray for
this world.
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As I meditate on the sufferings of the heart of Christ,
I have been crushed myself with his love for the
people that He's entrusted to me. The month began by
the little war that took place, the bombings that went
back and forth between Pakistan and India. The Muslims in
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India had gone into Pakistan and were murdering Christians who
were placed on my heart as my new people. I
serve there the Christians that are persecuted, and yet India retaliated,
bombed Pakistan, and my people, my prayer groups, my translator,
and the people that we worked there with.
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Were harmed. My people in Nigeria, printer was slaughtered.
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Not my printer wasn't his family and his home burned
down in that great slaughter. We heard about the two
hundred families that were slaughtered here. I look throughout the
Middle East and there's all of the unrest, and then
the wars begin with Irene and Israel, back and forth,
the threat of a nuclear war.
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Russia, my beloved Russia.
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Continues to persecute the Ukraine and the refugees that I serve.
The rebels are rising up in some of these other countries.
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We're beginning to have peace.
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Huge doors are open for projects in Ethiopia with the
bishop and Uganda, in seven dioceses, and the Cameraroon and
these rural places. No one has ever taught the truth
of the holiness of womanhood. Bringing these prayer groups to
life that have stopped the rebels from harming others, and
yet I have no.
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Money to help them.
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My family has suffered. My poor parents, you know, with
their age. My dad has had a horrible year in
and out of the hospital. My mom hasn't been able
to walk for a week or two here with her back.
So many people who I love suffering, the priests, my
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foster children, my nanny children, my former nanny children. And
yet I have to see that these, the suffering of
my heart, over the suffering of those I love, comes
from the love of Christ coming to live in me.
The closer I draw to Him, the more that I
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will love like him, and I will love who He loves,
and I will suffer for those who suffer. And as
I lie awake at night or get woken up in
the middle of the night, I've been finding myself climbing
into these wounds of Christ, as in to the entrance
of a cave, taking all of those I love and
I worry about, and slam dunking them.
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Almost like a basketball, right into the.
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Wounds of Christ, spiritually going over especially the areas of war,
with the heart of Christ pouring forth his precious blood
over them to calm the situation, to stop the war,
to enlighten the erroneous, to inflame those who've become cold hearted,
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even to convert those who've wrongly judged or betrayed me.
The heart of Christ is the greatest treasure we have.
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It's the pearl of great Christ.
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As we search around the land of Calvary and we dig,
we find that at pearl, which is the heart of Christ.
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Pierced open on the cross.
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We're called to go and give up every other thing
in this world to buy that field, to accept union
with Him right so that we can have that pearl,
so that we can have our lives revolve around that
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beating heart of Christ, where we see the blood of
Christ as our treasure. As the threat of nuclear war
was increasing this past week, I.
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Found myself placing myself.
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And my family and priests, my friends, those who I love,
those who I'm in charge of, my spiritual children, even my.
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Home in the heart of Christ, saying.
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Regardless of what happens, you be my bob shoulder, You
be our protection, you ber refuge, you br piece. And
that's what I want to share with you here at
the end of this month of the Sacred Heart, as
we're leading up to the feast on Friday, and then
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we enter into that glorious month of July, which is
the month of the Precious Blood. And as I was
meditating on this, I try I get up extremely early
to exercise in the morning, just because then I work
oftentimes long days, twelve hour days, and.
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I have to pray. But I can pray when I exercise.
So on Sundays and.
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On Wednesdays, I do it downstairs in my basement. I've
got some equipment, and I'm able to put on my
phone the Mass and the Angelusts from Rome and the
general audience on Wednesday, and I really am able to
unite my heart to what's going on in the bigger.
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Church with Poblio.
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And it was last Wednesday where he was reflecting on
the story of Christ healing the crippled man, and he
was laying by that pool where he said that, you know,
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they believed that the angels would stir up that water,
and he had no one to.
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Place them in that pool.
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I remember being there in Israel w to in order
to access those pools, you had to go down these
steps like into this like deep cave. I'm sure it
was probably more you know, the normal l level at
the time, but I was just remembering what it was
like to climb down those steps to this pool. When
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I was there, like we climb into the heart of Christ.
How we climb into his wounds so that we can
enter Him who is our pool? And pop Leo's spoke
a little bit about this. Then it was really beautiful.
It was almost like as this Holy Spirit was opening
up the readings, he had a similar commentary.
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And then the Lord showed me how you know those
there were.
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The five, the five pools, the five openings, and how
he had five wounds that we enter, and how the
Rosary that we pray together so many of you daily
with me, or at least a few times a week
when we pray the mysteries of the Rosary, we have
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an opportunity at each decade to enter a different wound
of Christ. The Chaplet of Mercy is at In fact,
when I pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, I always
pray each one in honor of one of those five
wounds of Christ. But the Church has blessed us with
prayers where it helps us to meditate on entering physically into.
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Into Christ.
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I jumped ahead of myself, but I'll jump down. I
need my glasses. I'm not very good at carrying them.
But I wrote in the Month of the Sacred Heart,
Jesus invites us to enter into the wounds of his
body so that we can be washed in them as
pools of love, bringing purification, healing, light, peace and holiness.
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We enter the wounds of his body like the pools
where the crippled man lay waiting for the water to
be stirred.
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These wounds pour forth his life.
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Giving water, and we don't have to have somebody else
place us within them. Christ comes and lifts us himself
and places us within his heart if we allow. But then, also,
as Christians, we're called to do what I said I
do often at night, to go around the world and
to pick up those who don't know Christ, and to
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place them in His heart, in the water of his blood,
so they can be washed as well.
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We do that through.
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Bringing people to baptism, but we can do it spiritually
as well. These wounds of Christ are portals where we
can live in His sacred heart. We enter them and
travel deep within him. It's not our love of Christ
that unites us to him or satisfies for our desires
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in the eyes of a father.
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Rather, it's his love for us. It's by accepting that
gift of his sacred.
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Heart, consuming our own little hearts in the fires of
his love. His heart is a furnace that changes us.
His love satisfies for our luke warmness or our failures if.
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We only allow it.
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Maybe you have a difficult relationship, a broken relationship places
in the heart of Christ, with that infinite fire of
love between you and whoever that is, ask him to
cauterize your wounds.
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Than to heal you.
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We enter these five pools, these five wounds of Christ,
through the five decades of the Rosary. By praying the Rosary,
we place our hearts in an exchange with the heart
of our Mother, his Mother of sorrows, and we're able
to pray with and in and through her. We can
think of Saint Pope John Paul the Second's favorite prayer,
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totis to us?
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Right?
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Did you know that on everything paper that he ever
wrote in all those years of being a pope, every
time you flip a page and keep writing, right, he
wrote on the top of the page one of the
four lines of this prayer.
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It wasn't just totis to us, And.
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The prayer was totis tous agosoum Maria. I am all
yours Maria at only a maya to a sun, and
all that I have is yours. Accept youo may and
Tua Presentia. Accept me or bring me into your presence.
Pray be Nihi Cortua and give me your heart. I
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pray that every day as I go up to Communion,
and we can pray at any time, that we want
to have that exchange of hearts with our lady when
we enter prayers, so that we can pray with.
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Her heart, we can love Christ with her heart.
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It's so beautiful, So it's our I want to speak
specifically about being a victim of desires and how our
desires can satisfy for all else that we lack in life.
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I remember, I think.
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It was last year, right before June. I was talking
to one of my sisters, and I was just overwhelmed
with all the Lord had asked of me and just
my limitedness in being human. I only have one hundred
and sixty eight hours a week, and I have extremely
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limited finances, limited strength within those hours. The more I age,
the less I'm able to do. And I'm still young,
but I'm not a spring chicken. You know I'm not twenty.
And she said to me, Mary, maybe your desire is enough.
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Maybe God counts your desires as the completion of what
you want to do.
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That's all he wants. And I opened up this book.
My father Andre.
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Pray Vote I think is his name, Yes, father Andrea
pray Vote. It's called Love, Peace and Joy, and it's
just thirty days of reflections on the sacred Heart. According
to Mechtilden Gertrude, and on that pain. He was speaking
exactly about this, how our desires, And I'm gonna share
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some of what he shared there. Our desires are a
springboard for God's will.
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Right.
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If God wants you to become an African missionary, he'll
put Africa.
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In your heart first, Right, Or.
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Maybe he'll just put a strong desire in your heart
for being a missionary. Maybe he'll ask you to do
something you don't necessarily want to, maybe you don't like
the heat.
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Right. It doesn't mean that he's going to give you everything.
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That is pleasurable to you, but that desire to serve
him will be so great that when your superior asks
you to go to Africa, you're able to follow that
and you find joy and peace, even in the sacrifice.
And so our desires are placed within us by God,
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and he wants to nurture them according.
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To his will. Right, it's an easy way.
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To discern what you're called to in life. I look
at my own life. I always, like Terres, wanted everything.
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All I wanted was.
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To get married very young, to have thirty children, to
be a missionary family, to adopt, to take it foster children,
all of that, and then to have my husband die
and I would be a widow and I would help
like Mother Teresa's sisters and work in that way, and
then I'd end up being a hermit.
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Right.
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Instead, he called me in an odd path where he has,
all of these years taken that place of husband and
spouse in my life.
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Providing for me.
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Right, Look at this home, comforting me, defending me. He
has given me the whole world as my children, even
these foster children. Right, so many have called me mother
in a different way. I lived as a hermit for
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many years. I'm sure that here in years to come,
that will happen again. I could be a missionary in
all the places I dreamed of. Papua New Guinea is
the only place I didn't.
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Ever get that I wanted to, but it was just
that poorest of the poor.
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I wanted to be a missionary still, but I felt
like my strength was failing. I needed to have a
center for everything I was doing, like in this home,
and without the financial help and support from others of
the way that many of those who give their life
to God have, I had to work and got used
that work of taking care of children to provide for me,
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and he brought me to a mission life that I
could never have done in any other way. I work
in places way too dangerous for physical missionaries to go.
I could never be simultaneously in Pakistan and Nigeria and
and you know believes all at the same time, right
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and in you know, the northern suburbs of Chicago.
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He uses me in ways like that.
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I was able to write these books, and yet He
kept me from the limelight here in the United States
so that I could serve those who are the poorest
of the poor all over the world. It's just incredible.
So Christ gives you desires so he can fulfill them.
The way He fulfills them maybe different than you expect. Sometimes,
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in fact, God allows the desires of our hearts to
feel like they crucify us, because it's that crucifixion with
Him and union with Him that brings the greatest grace
to the world. Sometimes God allows the desires of our
hearts themselves, just the desires to satisfy for all that
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were physically unable to accomplish for him. When I have
a burning desire to be somewhere for someone, to love them,
to take care of them, to.
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Have something healed, to bring a.
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Gift, and I can't physically have it happen, God uses
my desire to give more grace there right, to bring.
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Me in a more profound way to the people.
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Sometimes God allows us to be what they speak about here,
the great Saints to a saint by desire. Sometimes you
read about these great saints that you know would do
these incredible feats, and yet.
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We can't all do that in today's.
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Modern world in the same way, not all of us, right,
And so God allows us to have the same graces
as the greatest Saint, simply by our desire and through
that gift of love. Before I get to Father Andrea's
book here, I was reflecting on this in light of
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Saint Terrez of Lsu and I quickly pulled out some
quotes I wanted to.
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Share with you on that.
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Writing to her superior in eighteen ninety seven, the year
of her death, Saint Therez said, I have always desired
to be a saint, so that desire itself is what
carried her forward, and looking at the greatness of the saints,
she realized that she could not imitate them. But instead
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of getting discouraged, she said to herself, God could not
inspire us with desires that were unrealizable, So despite my littleness,
I can aspire to holiness. She recognized that if God
gives you a burning desire for something, it means he
wants to satiate that desire. In a letter to where
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sister Marie, she wrote, I am sure that God would
never give you the desire to be possessed by him
by his merciful love if He were not reserving this
favor for you, or rather he has already given it
to you, since you have given yourself to him in full,
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since you desire to be consumed by him. Since God
never gives desires that he cannot realize, how beautiful is this.
It's love that realizes the desires of Saint Terreza's heart.
It's the power and the fire of her love that
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make her into one of the greatest saints of our times.
Even though she didn't have the great mystical gifts of
some of you know, she didn't found something huge. She
didn't live, you know, like the desert mothers, since she
didn't give all of her blood in a physical way, right,
she was a martyr by desire.
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Saint terrez continues in another place.
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I knew that the church has a heart, and that
this heart burns with love, and that it is love
alone that gives life to its members.
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I knew that if this love.
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Were extinguished, the apostles would no longer preach the gospel, the.
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Martyrs would refuse to shed their blood.
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And I understood that love embraces all vocations, that it
is all things, that it reaches out through all the
ages and to the uttermost limits of.
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The earth, because it's eternal.
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Then beside myself with joy, I cried out, Oh Jesus
my love. At last, I've found my vocation. My vocation
is love. Yes, I have found my place in the
bosom of the Church, this place, Oh my God, thou
hast given thyself to me in the heart of the church,
my mother, I will be Love. Thus I shall be
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all things. Thus will my dream be realized? And she
said in another place, how can a soul so imperfect
as mine aspire to the plenitude of love? What is
the key of this mystery, Oh, my only friend, Why
do you not reserve these infinite longings to lofty souls?
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To the eagle set soar in the heights.
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Alas, I'm but a poor, little, unfledged bird. I'm not
an eagle. I have but the eagle's eyes and heart.
Yet notwithstanding my exceeding littleness, I dare to gaze upon
the divine Son of Love. I burn to dart upwards
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unto him. Would I would imitate the eagles. But all
that I can do is to lift up my little wings,
because it is beyond my feeble power to soar. And
she says, I entreat thee to let thy divine eyes
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rest upon a vast number of little souls. I entreat
thee to choose in this world a legion of little
victims of thy love.
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We ask the.
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Same thing of Christ, not only for ourselves personally, but
throughout the whole world, that he may raise up an
army of saints by desires, victims of desire, souls so
burning with the love of Christ, that that love itself
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does everything. Sometimes I as I was speaking, I get
overwhelmed with all the ideas and desires that I simply
don't have time and space or money or strength to do.
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And I came across that book by Father Andre priv
I keep want to saying, pravost, it's not it's prey vote.
And how he speaks throughout it by about the saints
who are saints solely by desires. He quotes Saint Catherine
of Siena, where she said, Oh my God, how wilt
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thou be able in these unhappy times to provide for
the wants of thy church. I feel the same way.
I know what thou wilt do. Thy love will.
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Raise up men of desires. Let us be among those men.
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Finite works joined to infinite desires will make thee hear
their prayers for the salvation of the world. Like Therez said,
just like Catherine, when we do little things with great love,
with infinite love, with the divine love of Christ, then
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all of our prayers have infinite worth. The Father looks
on us with mercy as he hears not only us
pray from within the heart of Christ, but Christ.
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Pray from within our own hearts.
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Jesus said to Saint Gertrude, always offer me, with a
contrite and humble heart, the desire to endure, were it
necessary for my glory all the sufferings of the world till.
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The end of time.
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And if you do this, you will obtain from my
heart whatever that you choose to ask, your desires, and
your goodwill suffice for all. So even if you see
your own weakness and you think you know I can't
suffer anymore, Christ wants you to offer the desire you
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have to endure all of Calvary with him as a
prayer of love for the world, for the salvation of souls.
And if you can just give him that intention of
your heart, he will make up for it. He will
present your prayers for the salvation of the world, for
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the end to nuclear war, for the conversion of those
most lost.
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He will make up for your lack.
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By his greatness, if you just offer him the desires
of your heart. Saint Gertrude was very especially a saying
of desires, and by these deserved the assurance from our
Lord many times repeated that her good will and desires
would be accepted and counted as though they had really
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met with their accomplishment. This is Father Andrew speaking. There
are in fact a certain number of saints who became
saints only by their desires. Saint John Berkman, for example,
and Saint Claud de la Colombier, who said, in speaking
of the vow of perfection that sanctified him, God could
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not fail to take the desire for the reality. He
had prayed and made a vow to be perfect, and
God took his desire for the reality. God heard the
preparation of their heart. The perfection of their dispositions gained
for them an increase in grace and holiness of their
intentions gave incomparable merit to the least of their actions.
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It's an especial characteristic of devotion to the sacred Heart
for us to be sanctified by desire.
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Right, it will be very useful to show that the.
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Victim of desires is not on this account less pleasing
to our Lord, and may acquire as much merit in
his sight as the saints of old who did great things.
And they may win from him for his church abundant
grace proportioned to their desires. Jesus accomplishes the desires of
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his friends in proportion to their earnestness and intensity.
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If you are being honest and earnest, if you.
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Are praying with integrity and humility of heart in having
these desires, and if they are great, if they are intense,
if they're all consuming, you can be assured that the
Lord will answer the measure that you're offering to him
with an overflow. It's not even just an equal measure
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for measure. You give him the little five loaves and
two fish of your heart, and he gives you back
twelve basketfolds.
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Of leftovers right of grace.
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Saint Gertrude, reciting the Office, said the verse save thy people, Lord,
And she had an ardent desire that our Lord would
grant an abundant blessing to.
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All the church. She said, how do you wish me
to act in this regard, my beloved?
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And he answered her, for I now abandoned myself to
your will, as absolutely as I abandoned myself on the
cross to that of my father. Distribute then, in virtue
of my divinity whatever you wish, and abundantly as you wish.
What a motive for confidence, What an encouragement to us
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to also be victims of desire. Saint Mechtilde expressed the
following desire to the Lord. Oh, if I only had
the power, how I would have thee humbly adored, my
most sweet and faithful friend by heaven, earth, hell, and
all creatures. And Jesus answered her in kindness, ask me
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to fulfill thy desires myself, for every creature is contained
in me. And in offering to my father the different
tributes of religious worship, I supply for all that may
be wanting in creatures with regard to the accomplishment of
these duties. This is what I now wish to do
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upon thy invitation, and thus realize thy desire. My love
cannot endure that the desire of a faithful soul should
remain imperfect when he is unable.
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To accomplish it herself.
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So when we have burning desires to glorify the Lord
and to do his work, and we feel limited and
like it's impossible, Christ will enter in and fulfill those
desires himself where we're unable to. Also, Jesus accepts the
desires of his friends as.
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If they're realized. This is both what.
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Saint Mechtild taught, as well as Saint Gertrude, who said
that our Lord accepts.
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The will for the deed.
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Praying one day for a person who was unable to
accomplish a work that had been enjoined, Christ enlightened her
by his response and said, the good will of that man,
in undertaking this work to fulfill my desire, notwithstanding the
difficulties that he meets with, is most agreeable to me.
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I accept the good will for the deed, even if
he be unable to succeed. I will reward him as
if he had accomplished it.
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Now, it doesn't mean that you'd say.
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Oh Lord, I would love to you know, go, you know,
serve at the soup kitchen this week, but I'm going
to say, I'm and watch another TV series instead. But
my desires there are so fulfill it. No, what he
means is that we pour ourselves out to the degree
that we can, and then where we lack, because we're
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human and earthly vessels and imperfect, he enters it right.
But it doesn't mean we just lay back and say, well,
you know, I ruin that relationship. I really should try
to mend it, but I'll just let God do it.
I'm not going to apologize. I'm not going to reach
out and love. I'm not going to try to, you know,
heal that wounded heart. You know he'll do it. No, no, no,
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no no. He wants you to reach out. He wants
you to try to offer an apology and kindness and
to spend time with whoever it is that you've hurt.
And then if for some reason you're not able to
accomplish it in full, he'll take the little that you
give him and multiply it.
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But he wants us to give him something. Right, I'm
reminded of.
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Right now, of the reflection of Pope Leo here a
few weeks ago on the Parable of the Sower, right,
and he was talking about the reckless love of God.
And the sower goes out and he doesn't look at
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or judge the soil. He doesn't say, you know, you
know what's most efficient?
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What will I succeed in? Oh? You know, that's really
good soil. So I'll only give you know seed there.
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But those people they don't look like they really care
about me. So I'm going to ignore them or blow
them off. Right, he is just heroically generous. He's recklessly generous.
He throws the seed of his.
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Love on everyone.
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Yes, it does make sense that if there is a
place that would bear greater fruit to really kind of
hone in on that if we're limited, right, And yet
he doesn't want us to neglect and.
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Just ignore the others.
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He wants us to be reckless in our love and
then he will bear fruit as he will. He doesn't say,
you know, go out and I'll do all the farming
and you can just sit there and watch what I'm
doing in the world. He calls us to take part.
He wants us to plant the seeds, to do what
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we're able, but then he brings in the fruit one
hundredfold instead of just tenfold.
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Right.
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In fact, it says in scripture that Christ himself provides
the seed for sewing.
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He wants us to be in every work that we do.
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To him for him with him, to first come to
him in prayer.
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You should pray before any work, any time that you have.
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That's why you have to pray daily, because you're every
day you're working. Maybe you're preaching in the gospel, maybe
you're meeting with an old friend and you want to
be able to share the love and healing of.
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Christ with them.
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You know, maybe you're working in an abortion clinic, maybe
you're writing a book, maybe you're going out to a mission, maybe.
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You are having to meet with a difficult sibling.
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But He always wants, whether it be three minutes or
an hour, for you to place that in prayers so
that he can give you the seed that he wants
you to sew.
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Then he wants you to sew.
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It without judgment, to sew it recklessly. And who he
brings to you don't say, well, maybe they'll misunderstand, or.
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I like these people better, so I'm going to go
over there. No love.
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Love can ever be misunderstood when it comes from the
heart of Christ right, and it can never be It
can never be impure or disordered if you're loving truly according.
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To the heart of Christ right.
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And so he calls us to go forth and to
do our own part. And then where we're limited in
our humanness, he provides the rest right so that even
if we're unable to succeed completely, he'll reward him. So
I in Pakistan could only raise you know, the money
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for the books that I sent.
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At Christmas.
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I don't have more money right now, but I sent everything,
So Christ is glad I sent everything. I'm not just
sitting at home twiddling my fingers. But He's going to
take the little I did and try to bless that
country and me for blessing that country, as if I
had thousands of dollars to send presently. Right, there is
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a great work to be done right now in other
countries like I've mentioned.
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Uganda and the Cameroon, and in Ethiopia with the.
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Bishop there wanting to translate now these books into Amharic.
I don't have the finances, but God is going to
bless these people as if I could do it today, right.
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Because I'm doing all that I can.
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I might desire to pray fifteen hours a day, but
I only have five or six. He'll multiply that in
my heart, in my life. In fact, the heart of
Jesus may even derive more glory from a desire of
the realization of which we've sacrificed to him, then from
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the satisfaction we would have felt in seeing the desire fulfilled.
Sometimes by sacrificing our desire and trusting that he will
bless us for that sacrifice, we'll bring forth more fruit
than if we watched that desire fulfilled. Right, It's kind
of allowing our desires to be the seed that falls
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to the ground and dies and then bears fruit. One
day Jesus spoke to Saint Gertrude about a desire. She
had to celebrate an upcoming feast with fervor, and she
was unable to do it from sickness.
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Kind of like my lent. I wanted to do.
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This and this and this, and then I had this
foster baby, and I wasn't able to I had to
attend to him and to Rica.
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I had two foster babies.
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Jesus said, if I grant your desire, I will follow
you to whatever beta flowers you may choose. But if
you sacrifice your desire to my good pleasure, you will
follow me to the garden of Delights, where I find
my greatest happiness, For I will be better pleased with
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you if you experience the desire and the privation.
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Of that desire.
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Then if you gained your wish and enjoyed that pleasure.
Sometimes God crucifies our desire to bear greater fruit. Another
example Saint Gertrude, on occasion, being animated with an ardent
desire to love God, said to our Lord, oh how
I longed to be consumed, was so burning a love
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that my heart could liquefy itself and be lost entirely
in you. Christ answered, your desires are the fire which
so liquefy your soul, that my love may absorb it.
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Totally into my divine heart.
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And as Saint Mechtilde was praying preparing for holy communion,
Our Lord said to her, offer me in your heart
a desire that includes all the desires and all the
love which men have ever been able to offer me.
And I will accept this desire of your heart as
if you really had such an intense and widespread love.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas also refers a few times in his
writing that before God, the desire and the disposition may
have as much merit as the reality. A saint who
is a martyr in desire only may be higher than
one who actually gains the crown of martyrdom. Saint Anthony
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of Padua had a burning desire to be a martyr,
so did Saint Francis. God crucified that desire and made
them great.
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Saints in this world. Saint Jane de Chantelle spoke.
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Too about the white martyrd of a heart, and how
that daily death to self, the slow bleed, was more
satisfying to the Lord than if she would have just
stepped outside and had her life ended physically.
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And so at the end here.
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I want to read this reflection from Lance Perth.
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What is his name, I'm gonna have to say it.
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Again, Lance Purgius, and it is I'm thinking.
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I'm trying to remember if they mentioned where he was from.
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Oh, he was a Carthusian of Cologne, born in fourteen
eighty nine and.
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Died in fifteen thirty nine.
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So he writes here about the heart of Jesus being
our sure refuge, And so I encourage you to place
your desires in this heart of Jesus as our refuge,
and as you climb in, absorb his love, his blood,
his life into yourself and offer your heart to him.
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We'll say at the very end of prayer, to exchange
our hearts.
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With Christ and ask him to put his infinite desires,
his desires for your life.
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In your heart, and then to fulfill them.
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That's the key to becoming a great Saint. The wound
of the heart of Jesus is for everyone a sure
refuge in all troubles, and every sorrow and affliction.
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Have recourse to this wounded heart.
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Should pleasure entice you, or sadness overwhelm you, do not
be afraid, for there is a place of safety for
you in the open heart of Jesus.
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Enter in and there take refuge.
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The tempter cannot penetrate there, evil cannot approach the sacred
dwelling in this inviable sanctuary.
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You can rest in peace.
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Cast all your sins into this wound, that through the
loving kindness of Jesus Christ, there may be blotted out
and destroyed. Hide your good works in order that the
holiness of Jesus may keep and defend them. Bring into
the Divine heart all the gifts that you have received
from God, so that under the protection of Jesus they
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may become still greater. Learn to dwell in this wound
of the sight and the heart of Jesus. If your
soul is His friend and mystic spouse, where can it
find a more notable, a more noble, salutary, or sweeter
resting place than in the heart of Jesus.
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If your soul is like a dove, here is the
place for it to build its nest. If you have
chosen to be like a lonely sparrow.
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What retreat wherein to lead a life of solitude, retired
from all can be better suited to you than the
heart of Christ.
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If your soul is like a turtle.
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Dove, if it sighs after God by its chaste to
desireshold the place of its repose, the open heart of
Jesus Christ. If you hunger, there you will find the
manna which will nourish you. If you thirst, there is
the fountain of the Savior at which you can drink abundantly. Yes,
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the heart of Jesus is the river that came out
of the midst of the earthly paradise. It flows into
the hearts of all who are devoted to him. It
waters and fertilizes the whole earth. The heart of Jesus
is the door of the ark through which those come
who will escape the flood enter. Then dwell in this wound,
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contemplating like a dove, the passion, the mercy, and the
love of Jesus. And we pray this prayer at the
end of the book A prayer to our Lord Jesus
Christ to change our heart and to give us his
oh most noble, most compassionate, most sweet, most loving, most
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faithful heart of Jesus my Savior and my God, for
the greater glory and the perfect accomplishment of thy most
holy will. Draw into thyself and absorb in THEE my heart,
my thoughts, and my affections, all the powers of my
soul and body, all that I am, all that I
can do, almost merciful Lord Jesus Christ, I commend myself
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to thy heart. I give myself holy to THEE through
thy most kind heart.
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I beseech THEE to draw my.
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Heart holy into thine, bury it in Thine, so that
it may be absorbed into and united to thy heart.
That I may no longer have any heart but thine.
Take from me my wicked, ungrateful heart, Give me thy
divine heart, or at least make my heart like thine,
that I may think of, know and desire only THEE. O,
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Lord God, my Savior, my Redeemer. Blot out my sins
and all in me that offends THEE. Take from thy
heart and put into mine all that thou would find
in me.
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Transform me and possess me.
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Let my heart be united to thy heart, my will
to thy will, in order that I may never will
aught else. But what thou wiltst and what is pleasing
to THEE, Oh Sweet Jesus, my God.
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May I love THEE with all my.
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Heart in all things and above all things.
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Amen.
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And at the end, when we think about being a
victim of desires and entering into Christ, standing under the
fountain of His blood and his love, we turn our
gaze back to that image of divine mercy that was
given to us from Saint Faustina, and we pray along
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with her, Oh blood and water which gushed forth from
the heart of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy.
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For us, we trust in you.
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Trust will open is a key to open his heart
to us. Trust is what allows our heart to be open,
so that as heart meets heart, wound meets wound, his
desires may flow like ocean waves into our own hearts.
Oh blood and water which gushed forth from the heart
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of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy.
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For us, we.
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Trust in you, Oh blood and water, which gushed forth
from the heart of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy
for us.
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We trust in you, Amen, Ali Lujah.
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I will not be doing a podcast in July, but
I do hope to do one on the Blood of
Christ when I am able to come back to social media.
God bless you abundantly.
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Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
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Hello, and welcome to the heart of Fiat crucified Love.
I wanted to come back this month before the month
of June is over the month to the Sacred Heart
and speak to one more time about the enormous treasure
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that the sacred Heart is, and try to enkindle that
furnace of love in your heart, a furnace of desire
for Christ.
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We're only able to receive.
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A gift and appreciate it to the degree that we
desire it, right, And so in order to receive the
fullness of the heart of Christ, full of infinite desire
for us and infinite divine love, we need him almost
a place within our hearts, his own infinite desire.
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And thirst for us. Right.
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So we're going to speak this week on the sacred
Heart and that fire of His love, and what it
means to be a victim of desire, and what it means.
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That desires themselves.
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Can satisfy for all that Christ is asking of us.
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Right.
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When God looked into the heart of David, he saw
someone whose heart was good, right, and he said, this
man has a heart that's similar to mine.
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And even one hundred times more.
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When Christ looked, or the Father looked into the heart
of our lady, he said, you know, this woman is
full of so much desire and longing for God and
the fulfillment of His will, that I must jump forth
from heaven.
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And enter her womb.
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Right, maybe I should actually make her a little more
visible here. And so Christ offers us this gift of
his own desire for us and our love, in the
gift of his sacred heart, as we see here behind me.
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In the gift of his wounds.
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He comes to us as the eternal High Priest with
that heart on fire, and he places within us his
eucharistic heart to enkindle our own cold hearts. So I
have much I want to share with you, and we're
gonna start with just a prayer.
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And and a song.
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As I was preparing briefly for this part of the
beginning of this.
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What came to me was that song impossible Things.
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So that's what we'll sing, because the gift that Christ
gives us is seemingly impossible, and yet.
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Nothing is impossible for God. Right.
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And I just picked up my guitar from having.
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It restrung.
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So I tuned it, but I hope it holds it
while we sing. I haven't played this one in a
while because it wasn't around available.
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So you guys can.
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Practice with me as we praised the Lord, and we
ask him to be ever present here in the name of.
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The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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A man, Come, Holy Spirit, all the hearts of your
faithful enkindle in all of us the fire of your love.
Send forth your spirit, and we can be recreated. And
thou it shalt renew the face of the earth. Sweet Jesus,
we asked you to draw us into your wounds as
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a cave, as a shelter for animals from the dangers
of the night, as a cave was a shelter for
your parents, and for your own little heart in Bethlehem.
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We ask that you dross into the.
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Cave of your wounds. We ask that we can hide
in these inner recesses of your heart the way that
the birds find rest from the heat of the day
in the side of the mountain. And just as a
spring can well up from the inner recesses of a
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mountain and pour forth down, gushing forth into a bigger
and a bigger river until it goes into the world.
We ask that you draw us to the source of
the spring of your love here in your sacred heart,
and that the blood that pours forth from your heart,
through your wounds and out to the world, the blood
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that we honor in this upcoming month of July, may
wash us that we may be dipped deep into this pool,
that we may be recreated by the Holy Spirit, so
that we can glorify you every breath, every heartbeat, every
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moment on.
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Earth, and then forever in the eternity.
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Sorry, I got interrupted there, So eman Alia, let's sing.
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You heal the broke and hard.
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You set the captive free, You left the heavy birded,
and even now you.
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Are left and me.
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There is no healer like the Lord Hermaker.
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There is no equal to the King of Kings, our Goddess.
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With us, we will fear no evil.
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You do impossible things you do impossible.
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I walk through the valley darkness around being me. There
you prepare table in the presence of my enemies. There
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is no healer like the Lord of Maker.
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There is no equal to the King of Kings, our Goddess.
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With us, we will fear no wavl You.
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Do impossible thing. You do impossible thing.
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One word, and the wall starts all.
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One word, and the blind will see.
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One word, and the sinners forgather.
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You two impossible things, You two impossible thing.
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You hear a broke in heart, You set the cab free,
You live the heavy bird.
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And even now you are left. And there is no
healer like the Lord of Maker. There is no equal
to the King of Kings.
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Our God is with us.
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We will fear wavl you too impossible things.
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You to impossible.
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Things by walk through the valley.
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Darkness surrounding me. There you prepare table in the presence
of my anomies.
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There is no healer like the Lord of her Maker.
There is no equal to the King of Kings. Our
God is with us.
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We will fear no weable you to impossible things.
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You to impossible the bat thing one word and the
ball start falling. One word, and the blind well see
one word, and the sinners for Gavin. You do impossible things.
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One word, and.
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The ball starts falling. One word, and the blind well.
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See one word, and.
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The sinners for Gavin.
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You do impossible thing. You to impossible thing, emen alainla
not you show right, Okay, not as saying.
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It's like I picked up the guitar. I'm like, I've
got to get back to the guitar.
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And I look over at my piano and I'm like,
I'm so vhand on my piano. I look at my
paint upstairs and I'm like, I need to finish this icon.
I am a woman of infinite desires, and that's what
we're gonna be talking about.
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So what does it mean to be a person of
many desires?
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So every year during the month of the Sacred Heart,
I read reflections on the Sacred Heart.
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And I've got four or five different books that I use.
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Saint Gertrude, Saint Mechtel, Saint John You, Saint Margaret Mary,
and then some ancient homilies. Oh that's this one, the
ancient Devotions to the Sacred Heart. It's from the fifteen
sixteen seventeenth Centuryians.
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Oh, it's so beautiful.
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This isn't even what I marked.
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But this is what I'm gonna start with.
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Oh my gosh, I'm gonna start with this and then
we'll talk about it.
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That's just incredible.
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This is from an anonymous Carthusian of Nuremberg, from a
work printed an old German in fourteen eighty.
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Okay, just incredible. The sacred heart of Jesus is the.
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City of refuge, right, We're talking about going into that
heart of Christ so that we can be satiated by
his desires, so that we can thirst.
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Enough to be filled.
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And so he's reflecting on the psalm be thou unto
me a house of refuge.
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I believe it's Psalm thirty.
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Oh Lord Jesus, christ inexhaustible fountain of love and grace.
I praise and thank THEE for the wound of thy
most holy side. We get to see that here as
we look at these images of the sacred Heart, and
we can we can gaze upon the wounds that were
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left from the cross right after the wound of thy
most sacred side received after death. For then, O Saint
of Saints, was thy right side so deeply pierced by
the soldier's spear that the point of the iron penetrated
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through thy breast, even into the midst of thy tender heart.
And from this large wound began to flow for us
the healing stream of blood and water, which fertilizes the
earth and saves the world. Oh, beneficient and wonderful shedding
of blood from the sight of Jesus slumbering on the
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cross and the sleep of death, for the redemption of
the human race. Almost pure and sweet stream of water
coming from our Saviour's.
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Breast to wash away all of our stains.
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Moses in the desert struck the rock, and there came
out a refreshing water, intended simply for the use and
comfort of the people of Israel and their flocks. But
when the fearless soldier Longinus, with his sturdy hand, struck
the rock.
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Of your heart with a.
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Spear, that is to say, when he cleft the right
side of Christ, there came out then and evermore a
mysterious fountain of water and of blood, from which our
chaste mother, the Holy Catholic Church draws her saving sacraments.
Eve was called the Mother of all the living. She
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was formed from a rib of her husband, Adam. The
Holy Church militant is called the mother of all who
are living by faith. She is formed from the side
of Christ, her spouse, O great, precious and loving wound
of my Savior. Thou art deeper than all the others,
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and open so wide that the faithful can enter in
a wound from which flowed unlimited and endless blessings. Wound
of the side inflicted the last, but became nevertheless the
most celebrated. Whosoever drinks deeply from the holy and divine
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source of this wound, or takes even a few drops,
will forget all his ills, will be set free from
the thirst for fleeting and vile pleasures, will be inflamed
with the love of eternal and heavenly things, filled with
the unutterable.
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Sweetness of the Holy Spirit.
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Then will flow into his soul a fountain of waters,
springing up into life everlasting. Enter o, my soul, Enter
into the right side of Thy crucified Lord. Enter through
this blessed wound into the center of the all loving
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Heart of Jesus, pierced through and through out of the
love for thee. Take thy rest in the clefts of
the rock, sheltered from the tempests of the world. Enter
into Thy God, covered with herbage and fragrant flowers.
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The path of life lies open before thee.
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This is the way of salvation, the bridge leading to heaven.
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The heart of.
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Jesus is a city of refuge in which we are
safe from the pursuit of the enemy. It's the city
of refuge which defends us from the wrath of an
angry judge. This heart is an inexhaustible fountain of the
oil of mercy for truly penitent sinners.
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This heart is.
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A source of the divine river, springing up in the
midst of paradise, to water the surface of the earth,
to quench the thirst of the dry and barren human heart,
to wash away sin, to extinguish the unholy fires of concupiscence,
to regulate the flights of the imagination, and to ally
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the fierceness of anger. Draw near, then, and take the
drought of love from this fountain of the Savior, in
order that thou may is no longer live to thyself,
but in Him who was crucified for THEE. Give thy
heart to Him, for he has opened his heart to THEE.
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Give not thy heart to the world, but to Christ,
thy Lord, Give it not to vain worldly wisdom, but
to eternal wisdom. Where can you rest more peaceively, dwell,
more securely, sleep more sweetly than in the wounds of
Christ crucified for THEE. O, all glorious and most amiable Jesus,
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creator of the mysterious and invisible world of grace, Thou,
guest of loving hearts, crucified example of souls crushed under
the weight of the cross, Thou who containest all the
riches and all the gifts of heaven. Jesus are King,
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our Savior of the faithful, who hast willed that thy
Holy Side should be opened by the point of a
ruthless lance. I humbly and fervently beseech Thee to open
to me the doors of thy mercy. Suffer me to
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enter through the large wound of thy adorable and most
holy side, into thy infinitely loving heart, so that my
heart may be united.
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To thy heart by an indissoluble bond of love. Wound
my heart with thy love.
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Let the soldier's spear penetrate my breast. Let my heart
be opened to THEE alone and close to the world
closed to the devil. Protect my heart, arm it against
the assaults of its enemies by the sign of your
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Holy Cross.
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Wow.
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What a beautiful prayer and way to open this podcast.
At the end of this presentation, I'll share with you
one more reflection here on the heart of Jesus as
a sure refuge by a holy writer named Lance Burgess.
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So I began to meditate on the Sacred Heart at
the beginning of June. And to be honest, I usually
fail at whatever I plan, Like you know, a fifty four.
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Day rose Reno Vina.
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I did that actually for like one hundred days, but
I didn't pray it as well as I thought, like
I didn't feel like I was. But like Lent, I
got these foster babies, and everything I wanted to do
kind of fell away. But I can't believe that I
actually got through all four of these books, meditating for
a special period of time every day during the month.
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Of June, praying not only to grow in my own.
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Fire of love for Christ, but in reparation for the offenses.
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Against his heart and his love, and to pray for
this world.
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As I meditate on the sufferings of the heart of Christ,
I have been crushed myself with his love for the
people that He's entrusted to me. The month began by
the little war that took place, the bombings that went
back and forth between Pakistan and India. The Muslims in
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India had gone into Pakistan and were murdering Christians who
were placed on my heart as my new people. I
serve there the Christians that are persecuted, and yet India retaliated,
bombed Pakistan, and my people, my prayer groups, my translator,
and the people that we worked there with.
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Were harmed. My people in Nigeria, printer was slaughtered.
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Not my printer wasn't his family and his home burned
down in that great slaughter. We heard about the two
hundred families that were slaughtered here. I look throughout the
Middle East and there's all of the unrest, and then
the wars begin with Irene and Israel, back and forth,
the threat of a nuclear war.
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Russia, my beloved Russia.
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Continues to persecute the Ukraine and the refugees that I serve.
The rebels are rising up in some of these other countries.
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We're beginning to have peace.
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Huge doors are open for projects in Ethiopia with the
bishop and Uganda, in seven dioceses, and the Cameraroon and
these rural places. No one has ever taught the truth
of the holiness of womanhood. Bringing these prayer groups to
life that have stopped the rebels from harming others, and
yet I have no.
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Money to help them.
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My family has suffered. My poor parents, you know, with
their age. My dad has had a horrible year in
and out of the hospital. My mom hasn't been able
to walk for a week or two here with her back.
So many people who I love suffering, the priests, my
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foster children, my nanny children, my former nanny children. And
yet I have to see that these, the suffering of
my heart, over the suffering of those I love, comes
from the love of Christ coming to live in me.
The closer I draw to Him, the more that I
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will love like him, and I will love who He loves,
and I will suffer for those who suffer. And as
I lie awake at night or get woken up in
the middle of the night, I've been finding myself climbing
into these wounds of Christ, as in to the entrance
of a cave, taking all of those I love and
I worry about, and slam dunking them.
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Almost like a basketball, right into the.
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Wounds of Christ, spiritually going over especially the areas of war,
with the heart of Christ pouring forth his precious blood
over them to calm the situation, to stop the war,
to enlighten the erroneous, to inflame those who've become cold hearted,
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even to convert those who've wrongly judged or betrayed me.
The heart of Christ is the greatest treasure we have.
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It's the pearl of great Christ.
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As we search around the land of Calvary and we dig,
we find that at pearl, which is the heart of Christ.
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Pierced open on the cross.
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We're called to go and give up every other thing
in this world to buy that field, to accept union
with Him right so that we can have that pearl,
so that we can have our lives revolve around that
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beating heart of Christ, where we see the blood of
Christ as our treasure. As the threat of nuclear war
was increasing this past week, I.
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Found myself placing myself.
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And my family and priests, my friends, those who I love,
those who I'm in charge of, my spiritual children, even my.
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Home in the heart of Christ, saying.
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Regardless of what happens, you be my bob shoulder, You
be our protection, you ber refuge, you br piece. And
that's what I want to share with you here at
the end of this month of the Sacred Heart, as
we're leading up to the feast on Friday, and then
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we enter into that glorious month of July, which is
the month of the Precious Blood. And as I was
meditating on this, I try I get up extremely early
to exercise in the morning, just because then I work
oftentimes long days, twelve hour days, and.
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I have to pray. But I can pray when I exercise.
So on Sundays and.
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On Wednesdays, I do it downstairs in my basement. I've
got some equipment, and I'm able to put on my
phone the Mass and the Angelusts from Rome and the
general audience on Wednesday, and I really am able to
unite my heart to what's going on in the bigger.
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Church with Poblio.
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And it was last Wednesday where he was reflecting on
the story of Christ healing the crippled man, and he
was laying by that pool where he said that, you know,
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they believed that the angels would stir up that water,
and he had no one to.
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Place them in that pool.
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I remember being there in Israel w to in order
to access those pools, you had to go down these
steps like into this like deep cave. I'm sure it
was probably more you know, the normal l level at
the time, but I was just remembering what it was
like to climb down those steps to this pool. When
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I was there, like we climb into the heart of Christ.
How we climb into his wounds so that we can
enter Him who is our pool? And pop Leo's spoke
a little bit about this. Then it was really beautiful.
It was almost like as this Holy Spirit was opening
up the readings, he had a similar commentary.
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And then the Lord showed me how you know those
there were.
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The five, the five pools, the five openings, and how
he had five wounds that we enter, and how the
Rosary that we pray together so many of you daily
with me, or at least a few times a week
when we pray the mysteries of the Rosary, we have
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an opportunity at each decade to enter a different wound
of Christ. The Chaplet of Mercy is at In fact,
when I pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, I always
pray each one in honor of one of those five
wounds of Christ. But the Church has blessed us with
prayers where it helps us to meditate on entering physically into.
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Into Christ.
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I jumped ahead of myself, but I'll jump down. I
need my glasses. I'm not very good at carrying them.
But I wrote in the Month of the Sacred Heart,
Jesus invites us to enter into the wounds of his
body so that we can be washed in them as
pools of love, bringing purification, healing, light, peace and holiness.
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We enter the wounds of his body like the pools
where the crippled man lay waiting for the water to
be stirred.
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These wounds pour forth his life.
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Giving water, and we don't have to have somebody else
place us within them. Christ comes and lifts us himself
and places us within his heart if we allow. But then, also,
as Christians, we're called to do what I said I
do often at night, to go around the world and
to pick up those who don't know Christ, and to
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place them in His heart, in the water of his blood,
so they can be washed as well.
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We do that through.
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Bringing people to baptism, but we can do it spiritually
as well. These wounds of Christ are portals where we
can live in His sacred heart. We enter them and
travel deep within him. It's not our love of Christ
that unites us to him or satisfies for our desires
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in the eyes of a father.
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Rather, it's his love for us. It's by accepting that
gift of his sacred.
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Heart, consuming our own little hearts in the fires of
his love. His heart is a furnace that changes us.
His love satisfies for our luke warmness or our failures if.
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We only allow it.
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Maybe you have a difficult relationship, a broken relationship places
in the heart of Christ, with that infinite fire of
love between you and whoever that is, ask him to
cauterize your wounds.
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Than to heal you.
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We enter these five pools, these five wounds of Christ,
through the five decades of the Rosary. By praying the Rosary,
we place our hearts in an exchange with the heart
of our Mother, his Mother of sorrows, and we're able
to pray with and in and through her. We can
think of Saint Pope John Paul the Second's favorite prayer,
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totis to us?
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Right?
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Did you know that on everything paper that he ever
wrote in all those years of being a pope, every
time you flip a page and keep writing, right, he
wrote on the top of the page one of the
four lines of this prayer.
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It wasn't just totis to us, And.
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The prayer was totis tous agosoum Maria. I am all
yours Maria at only a maya to a sun, and
all that I have is yours. Accept youo may and
Tua Presentia. Accept me or bring me into your presence.
Pray be Nihi Cortua and give me your heart. I
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pray that every day as I go up to Communion,
and we can pray at any time, that we want
to have that exchange of hearts with our lady when
we enter prayers, so that we can pray with.
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Her heart, we can love Christ with her heart.
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It's so beautiful, So it's our I want to speak
specifically about being a victim of desires and how our
desires can satisfy for all else that we lack in life.
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I remember, I think.
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It was last year, right before June. I was talking
to one of my sisters, and I was just overwhelmed
with all the Lord had asked of me and just
my limitedness in being human. I only have one hundred
and sixty eight hours a week, and I have extremely
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limited finances, limited strength within those hours. The more I age,
the less I'm able to do. And I'm still young,
but I'm not a spring chicken. You know I'm not twenty.
And she said to me, Mary, maybe your desire is enough.
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Maybe God counts your desires as the completion of what
you want to do.
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That's all he wants. And I opened up this book.
My father Andre.
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Pray Vote I think is his name, Yes, father Andrea
pray Vote. It's called Love, Peace and Joy, and it's
just thirty days of reflections on the sacred Heart. According
to Mechtilden Gertrude, and on that pain. He was speaking
exactly about this, how our desires, And I'm gonna share
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some of what he shared there. Our desires are a
springboard for God's will.
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Right.
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If God wants you to become an African missionary, he'll
put Africa.
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In your heart first, Right, Or.
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Maybe he'll just put a strong desire in your heart
for being a missionary. Maybe he'll ask you to do
something you don't necessarily want to, maybe you don't like
the heat.
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Right. It doesn't mean that he's going to give you everything.
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That is pleasurable to you, but that desire to serve
him will be so great that when your superior asks
you to go to Africa, you're able to follow that
and you find joy and peace, even in the sacrifice.
And so our desires are placed within us by God,
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and he wants to nurture them according.
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To his will. Right, it's an easy way.
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To discern what you're called to in life. I look
at my own life. I always, like Terres, wanted everything.
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All I wanted was.
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To get married very young, to have thirty children, to
be a missionary family, to adopt, to take it foster children,
all of that, and then to have my husband die
and I would be a widow and I would help
like Mother Teresa's sisters and work in that way, and
then I'd end up being a hermit.
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Right.
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Instead, he called me in an odd path where he has,
all of these years taken that place of husband and
spouse in my life.
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Providing for me.
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Right, Look at this home, comforting me, defending me. He
has given me the whole world as my children, even
these foster children. Right, so many have called me mother
in a different way. I lived as a hermit for
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many years. I'm sure that here in years to come,
that will happen again. I could be a missionary in
all the places I dreamed of. Papua New Guinea is
the only place I didn't.
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Ever get that I wanted to, but it was just
that poorest of the poor.
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I wanted to be a missionary still, but I felt
like my strength was failing. I needed to have a
center for everything I was doing, like in this home,
and without the financial help and support from others of
the way that many of those who give their life
to God have, I had to work and got used
that work of taking care of children to provide for me,
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and he brought me to a mission life that I
could never have done in any other way. I work
in places way too dangerous for physical missionaries to go.
I could never be simultaneously in Pakistan and Nigeria and
and you know believes all at the same time, right
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and in you know, the northern suburbs of Chicago.
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He uses me in ways like that.
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I was able to write these books, and yet He
kept me from the limelight here in the United States
so that I could serve those who are the poorest
of the poor all over the world. It's just incredible.
So Christ gives you desires so he can fulfill them.
The way He fulfills them maybe different than you expect. Sometimes,
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in fact, God allows the desires of our hearts to
feel like they crucify us, because it's that crucifixion with
Him and union with Him that brings the greatest grace
to the world. Sometimes God allows the desires of our
hearts themselves, just the desires to satisfy for all that
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were physically unable to accomplish for him. When I have
a burning desire to be somewhere for someone, to love them,
to take care of them, to.
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Have something healed, to bring a.
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Gift, and I can't physically have it happen, God uses
my desire to give more grace there right, to bring.
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Me in a more profound way to the people.
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Sometimes God allows us to be what they speak about here,
the great Saints to a saint by desire. Sometimes you
read about these great saints that you know would do
these incredible feats, and yet.
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We can't all do that in today's.
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Modern world in the same way, not all of us, right,
And so God allows us to have the same graces
as the greatest Saint, simply by our desire and through
that gift of love. Before I get to Father Andrea's
book here, I was reflecting on this in light of
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Saint Terrez of Lsu and I quickly pulled out some
quotes I wanted to.
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Share with you on that.
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Writing to her superior in eighteen ninety seven, the year
of her death, Saint Therez said, I have always desired
to be a saint, so that desire itself is what
carried her forward, and looking at the greatness of the saints,
she realized that she could not imitate them. But instead
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of getting discouraged, she said to herself, God could not
inspire us with desires that were unrealizable, So despite my littleness,
I can aspire to holiness. She recognized that if God
gives you a burning desire for something, it means he
wants to satiate that desire. In a letter to where
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sister Marie, she wrote, I am sure that God would
never give you the desire to be possessed by him
by his merciful love if He were not reserving this
favor for you, or rather he has already given it
to you, since you have given yourself to him in full,
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since you desire to be consumed by him. Since God
never gives desires that he cannot realize, how beautiful is this.
It's love that realizes the desires of Saint Terreza's heart.
It's the power and the fire of her love that
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make her into one of the greatest saints of our times.
Even though she didn't have the great mystical gifts of
some of you know, she didn't found something huge. She
didn't live, you know, like the desert mothers, since she
didn't give all of her blood in a physical way, right,
she was a martyr by desire.
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Saint terrez continues in another place.
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I knew that the church has a heart, and that
this heart burns with love, and that it is love
alone that gives life to its members.
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I knew that if this love.
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Were extinguished, the apostles would no longer preach the gospel, the.
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Martyrs would refuse to shed their blood.
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And I understood that love embraces all vocations, that it
is all things, that it reaches out through all the
ages and to the uttermost limits of.
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The earth, because it's eternal.
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Then beside myself with joy, I cried out, Oh Jesus
my love. At last, I've found my vocation. My vocation
is love. Yes, I have found my place in the
bosom of the Church, this place, Oh my God, thou
hast given thyself to me in the heart of the church,
my mother, I will be Love. Thus I shall be
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all things. Thus will my dream be realized? And she
said in another place, how can a soul so imperfect
as mine aspire to the plenitude of love? What is
the key of this mystery, Oh, my only friend, Why
do you not reserve these infinite longings to lofty souls?
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To the eagle set soar in the heights.
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Alas, I'm but a poor, little, unfledged bird. I'm not
an eagle. I have but the eagle's eyes and heart.
Yet notwithstanding my exceeding littleness, I dare to gaze upon
the divine Son of Love. I burn to dart upwards
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unto him. Would I would imitate the eagles. But all
that I can do is to lift up my little wings,
because it is beyond my feeble power to soar. And
she says, I entreat thee to let thy divine eyes
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rest upon a vast number of little souls. I entreat
thee to choose in this world a legion of little
victims of thy love.
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We ask the.
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Same thing of Christ, not only for ourselves personally, but
throughout the whole world, that he may raise up an
army of saints by desires, victims of desire, souls so
burning with the love of Christ, that that love itself
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does everything. Sometimes I as I was speaking, I get
overwhelmed with all the ideas and desires that I simply
don't have time and space or money or strength to do.
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And I came across that book by Father Andre priv
I keep want to saying, pravost, it's not it's prey vote.
And how he speaks throughout it by about the saints
who are saints solely by desires. He quotes Saint Catherine
of Siena, where she said, Oh my God, how wilt
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thou be able in these unhappy times to provide for
the wants of thy church. I feel the same way.
I know what thou wilt do. Thy love will.
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Raise up men of desires. Let us be among those men.
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Finite works joined to infinite desires will make thee hear
their prayers for the salvation of the world. Like Therez said,
just like Catherine, when we do little things with great love,
with infinite love, with the divine love of Christ, then
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all of our prayers have infinite worth. The Father looks
on us with mercy as he hears not only us
pray from within the heart of Christ, but Christ.
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Pray from within our own hearts.
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Jesus said to Saint Gertrude, always offer me, with a
contrite and humble heart, the desire to endure, were it
necessary for my glory all the sufferings of the world till.
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The end of time.
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And if you do this, you will obtain from my
heart whatever that you choose to ask, your desires, and
your goodwill suffice for all. So even if you see
your own weakness and you think you know I can't
suffer anymore, Christ wants you to offer the desire you
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have to endure all of Calvary with him as a
prayer of love for the world, for the salvation of souls.
And if you can just give him that intention of
your heart, he will make up for it. He will
present your prayers for the salvation of the world, for
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the end to nuclear war, for the conversion of those
most lost.
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He will make up for your lack.
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By his greatness, if you just offer him the desires
of your heart. Saint Gertrude was very especially a saying
of desires, and by these deserved the assurance from our
Lord many times repeated that her good will and desires
would be accepted and counted as though they had really
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met with their accomplishment. This is Father Andrew speaking. There
are in fact a certain number of saints who became
saints only by their desires. Saint John Berkman, for example,
and Saint Claud de la Colombier, who said, in speaking
of the vow of perfection that sanctified him, God could
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not fail to take the desire for the reality. He
had prayed and made a vow to be perfect, and
God took his desire for the reality. God heard the
preparation of their heart. The perfection of their dispositions gained
for them an increase in grace and holiness of their
intentions gave incomparable merit to the least of their actions.
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It's an especial characteristic of devotion to the sacred Heart
for us to be sanctified by desire.
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Right, it will be very useful to show that the.
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Victim of desires is not on this account less pleasing
to our Lord, and may acquire as much merit in
his sight as the saints of old who did great things.
And they may win from him for his church abundant
grace proportioned to their desires. Jesus accomplishes the desires of
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his friends in proportion to their earnestness and intensity.
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If you are being honest and earnest, if you.
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Are praying with integrity and humility of heart in having
these desires, and if they are great, if they are intense,
if they're all consuming, you can be assured that the
Lord will answer the measure that you're offering to him
with an overflow. It's not even just an equal measure
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for measure. You give him the little five loaves and
two fish of your heart, and he gives you back
twelve basketfolds.
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Of leftovers right of grace.
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Saint Gertrude, reciting the Office, said the verse save thy people, Lord,
And she had an ardent desire that our Lord would
grant an abundant blessing to.
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All the church. She said, how do you wish me
to act in this regard, my beloved?
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And he answered her, for I now abandoned myself to
your will, as absolutely as I abandoned myself on the
cross to that of my father. Distribute then, in virtue
of my divinity whatever you wish, and abundantly as you wish.
What a motive for confidence, What an encouragement to us
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to also be victims of desire. Saint Mechtilde expressed the
following desire to the Lord. Oh, if I only had
the power, how I would have thee humbly adored, my
most sweet and faithful friend by heaven, earth, hell, and
all creatures. And Jesus answered her in kindness, ask me
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to fulfill thy desires myself, for every creature is contained
in me. And in offering to my father the different
tributes of religious worship, I supply for all that may
be wanting in creatures with regard to the accomplishment of
these duties. This is what I now wish to do
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upon thy invitation, and thus realize thy desire. My love
cannot endure that the desire of a faithful soul should
remain imperfect when he is unable.
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To accomplish it herself.
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So when we have burning desires to glorify the Lord
and to do his work, and we feel limited and
like it's impossible, Christ will enter in and fulfill those
desires himself where we're unable to. Also, Jesus accepts the
desires of his friends as.
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If they're realized. This is both what.
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Saint Mechtild taught, as well as Saint Gertrude, who said
that our Lord accepts.
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The will for the deed.
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Praying one day for a person who was unable to
accomplish a work that had been enjoined, Christ enlightened her
by his response and said, the good will of that man,
in undertaking this work to fulfill my desire, notwithstanding the
difficulties that he meets with, is most agreeable to me.
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I accept the good will for the deed, even if
he be unable to succeed. I will reward him as
if he had accomplished it.
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Now, it doesn't mean that you'd say.
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Oh Lord, I would love to you know, go, you know,
serve at the soup kitchen this week, but I'm going
to say, I'm and watch another TV series instead. But
my desires there are so fulfill it. No, what he
means is that we pour ourselves out to the degree
that we can, and then where we lack, because we're
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human and earthly vessels and imperfect, he enters it right.
But it doesn't mean we just lay back and say, well,
you know, I ruin that relationship. I really should try
to mend it, but I'll just let God do it.
I'm not going to apologize. I'm not going to reach
out and love. I'm not going to try to, you know,
heal that wounded heart. You know he'll do it. No, no, no,
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no no. He wants you to reach out. He wants
you to try to offer an apology and kindness and
to spend time with whoever it is that you've hurt.
And then if for some reason you're not able to
accomplish it in full, he'll take the little that you
give him and multiply it.
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But he wants us to give him something. Right, I'm
reminded of.
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Right now, of the reflection of Pope Leo here a
few weeks ago on the Parable of the Sower, right,
and he was talking about the reckless love of God.
And the sower goes out and he doesn't look at
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or judge the soil. He doesn't say, you know, you
know what's most efficient?
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What will I succeed in? Oh? You know, that's really
good soil. So I'll only give you know seed there.
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But those people they don't look like they really care
about me. So I'm going to ignore them or blow
them off. Right, he is just heroically generous. He's recklessly generous.
He throws the seed of his.
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Love on everyone.
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Yes, it does make sense that if there is a
place that would bear greater fruit to really kind of
hone in on that if we're limited, right, And yet
he doesn't want us to neglect and.
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Just ignore the others.
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He wants us to be reckless in our love and
then he will bear fruit as he will. He doesn't say,
you know, go out and I'll do all the farming
and you can just sit there and watch what I'm
doing in the world. He calls us to take part.
He wants us to plant the seeds, to do what
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we're able, but then he brings in the fruit one
hundredfold instead of just tenfold.
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Right.
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In fact, it says in scripture that Christ himself provides
the seed for sewing.
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He wants us to be in every work that we do.
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To him for him with him, to first come to
him in prayer.
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You should pray before any work, any time that you have.
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That's why you have to pray daily, because you're every
day you're working. Maybe you're preaching in the gospel, maybe
you're meeting with an old friend and you want to
be able to share the love and healing of.
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Christ with them.
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You know, maybe you're working in an abortion clinic, maybe
you're writing a book, maybe you're going out to a mission, maybe.
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You are having to meet with a difficult sibling.
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But He always wants, whether it be three minutes or
an hour, for you to place that in prayers so
that he can give you the seed that he wants
you to sew.
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Then he wants you to sew.
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It without judgment, to sew it recklessly. And who he
brings to you don't say, well, maybe they'll misunderstand, or.
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I like these people better, so I'm going to go
over there. No love.
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Love can ever be misunderstood when it comes from the
heart of Christ right, and it can never be It
can never be impure or disordered if you're loving truly according.
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To the heart of Christ right.
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And so he calls us to go forth and to
do our own part. And then where we're limited in
our humanness, he provides the rest right so that even
if we're unable to succeed completely, he'll reward him. So
I in Pakistan could only raise you know, the money
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for the books that I sent.
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At Christmas.
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I don't have more money right now, but I sent everything,
So Christ is glad I sent everything. I'm not just
sitting at home twiddling my fingers. But He's going to
take the little I did and try to bless that
country and me for blessing that country, as if I
had thousands of dollars to send presently. Right, there is
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a great work to be done right now in other
countries like I've mentioned.
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Uganda and the Cameroon, and in Ethiopia with the.
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Bishop there wanting to translate now these books into Amharic.
I don't have the finances, but God is going to
bless these people as if I could do it today, right.
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Because I'm doing all that I can.
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I might desire to pray fifteen hours a day, but
I only have five or six. He'll multiply that in
my heart, in my life. In fact, the heart of
Jesus may even derive more glory from a desire of
the realization of which we've sacrificed to him, then from
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the satisfaction we would have felt in seeing the desire fulfilled.
Sometimes by sacrificing our desire and trusting that he will
bless us for that sacrifice, we'll bring forth more fruit
than if we watched that desire fulfilled. Right, It's kind
of allowing our desires to be the seed that falls
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to the ground and dies and then bears fruit. One
day Jesus spoke to Saint Gertrude about a desire. She
had to celebrate an upcoming feast with fervor, and she
was unable to do it from sickness.
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Kind of like my lent. I wanted to do.
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This and this and this, and then I had this
foster baby, and I wasn't able to I had to
attend to him and to Rica.
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I had two foster babies.
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Jesus said, if I grant your desire, I will follow
you to whatever beta flowers you may choose. But if
you sacrifice your desire to my good pleasure, you will
follow me to the garden of Delights, where I find
my greatest happiness, For I will be better pleased with
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you if you experience the desire and the privation.
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Of that desire.
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Then if you gained your wish and enjoyed that pleasure.
Sometimes God crucifies our desire to bear greater fruit. Another
example Saint Gertrude, on occasion, being animated with an ardent
desire to love God, said to our Lord, oh how
I longed to be consumed, was so burning a love
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that my heart could liquefy itself and be lost entirely
in you. Christ answered, your desires are the fire which
so liquefy your soul, that my love may absorb it.
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Totally into my divine heart.
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And as Saint Mechtilde was praying preparing for holy communion,
Our Lord said to her, offer me in your heart
a desire that includes all the desires and all the
love which men have ever been able to offer me.
And I will accept this desire of your heart as
if you really had such an intense and widespread love.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas also refers a few times in his
writing that before God, the desire and the disposition may
have as much merit as the reality. A saint who
is a martyr in desire only may be higher than
one who actually gains the crown of martyrdom. Saint Anthony
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of Padua had a burning desire to be a martyr,
so did Saint Francis. God crucified that desire and made
them great.
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Saints in this world. Saint Jane de Chantelle spoke.
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Too about the white martyrd of a heart, and how
that daily death to self, the slow bleed, was more
satisfying to the Lord than if she would have just
stepped outside and had her life ended physically.
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And so at the end here.
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I want to read this reflection from Lance Perth.
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What is his name, I'm gonna have to say it.
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Again, Lance Purgius, and it is I'm thinking.
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I'm trying to remember if they mentioned where he was from.
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Oh, he was a Carthusian of Cologne, born in fourteen
eighty nine and.
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Died in fifteen thirty nine.
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So he writes here about the heart of Jesus being
our sure refuge, And so I encourage you to place
your desires in this heart of Jesus as our refuge,
and as you climb in, absorb his love, his blood,
his life into yourself and offer your heart to him.
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We'll say at the very end of prayer, to exchange
our hearts.
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With Christ and ask him to put his infinite desires,
his desires for your life.
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In your heart, and then to fulfill them.
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That's the key to becoming a great Saint. The wound
of the heart of Jesus is for everyone a sure
refuge in all troubles, and every sorrow and affliction.
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Have recourse to this wounded heart.
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Should pleasure entice you, or sadness overwhelm you, do not
be afraid, for there is a place of safety for
you in the open heart of Jesus.
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Enter in and there take refuge.
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The tempter cannot penetrate there, evil cannot approach the sacred
dwelling in this inviable sanctuary.
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You can rest in peace.
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Cast all your sins into this wound, that through the
loving kindness of Jesus Christ, there may be blotted out
and destroyed. Hide your good works in order that the
holiness of Jesus may keep and defend them. Bring into
the Divine heart all the gifts that you have received
from God, so that under the protection of Jesus they
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may become still greater. Learn to dwell in this wound
of the sight and the heart of Jesus. If your
soul is His friend and mystic spouse, where can it
find a more notable, a more noble, salutary, or sweeter
resting place than in the heart of Jesus.
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If your soul is like a dove, here is the
place for it to build its nest. If you have
chosen to be like a lonely sparrow.
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What retreat wherein to lead a life of solitude, retired
from all can be better suited to you than the
heart of Christ.
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If your soul is like a turtle.
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Dove, if it sighs after God by its chaste to
desireshold the place of its repose, the open heart of
Jesus Christ. If you hunger, there you will find the
manna which will nourish you. If you thirst, there is
the fountain of the Savior at which you can drink abundantly. Yes,
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the heart of Jesus is the river that came out
of the midst of the earthly paradise. It flows into
the hearts of all who are devoted to him. It
waters and fertilizes the whole earth. The heart of Jesus
is the door of the ark through which those come
who will escape the flood enter. Then dwell in this wound,
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contemplating like a dove, the passion, the mercy, and the
love of Jesus. And we pray this prayer at the
end of the book A prayer to our Lord Jesus
Christ to change our heart and to give us his
oh most noble, most compassionate, most sweet, most loving, most
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faithful heart of Jesus my Savior and my God, for
the greater glory and the perfect accomplishment of thy most
holy will. Draw into thyself and absorb in THEE my heart,
my thoughts, and my affections, all the powers of my
soul and body, all that I am, all that I
can do, almost merciful Lord Jesus Christ, I commend myself
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to thy heart. I give myself holy to THEE through
thy most kind heart.
Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
I beseech THEE to draw my.
Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Heart holy into thine, bury it in Thine, so that
it may be absorbed into and united to thy heart.
That I may no longer have any heart but thine.
Take from me my wicked, ungrateful heart, Give me thy
divine heart, or at least make my heart like thine,
that I may think of, know and desire only THEE. O,
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Lord God, my Savior, my Redeemer. Blot out my sins
and all in me that offends THEE. Take from thy
heart and put into mine all that thou would find
in me.
Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Transform me and possess me.
Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Let my heart be united to thy heart, my will
to thy will, in order that I may never will
aught else. But what thou wiltst and what is pleasing
to THEE, Oh Sweet Jesus, my God.
Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
May I love THEE with all my.
Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Heart in all things and above all things.
Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
And at the end, when we think about being a
victim of desires and entering into Christ, standing under the
fountain of His blood and his love, we turn our
gaze back to that image of divine mercy that was
given to us from Saint Faustina, and we pray along
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with her, Oh blood and water which gushed forth from
the heart of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy.
Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
For us, we trust in you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Trust will open is a key to open his heart
to us. Trust is what allows our heart to be open,
so that as heart meets heart, wound meets wound, his
desires may flow like ocean waves into our own hearts.
Oh blood and water which gushed forth from the heart
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of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy.
Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
For us, we.
Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Trust in you, Oh blood and water, which gushed forth
from the heart of Jesus, as a fountain of mercy
for us.
Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
We trust in you, Amen, Ali Lujah.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
I will not be doing a podcast in July, but
I do hope to do one on the Blood of
Christ when I am able to come back to social media.
God bless you abundantly.
Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Hello, God's beloved. I'm Annabel Moseley, author, professor of theology
and host of then Sings My Soul and Destination Sainthood
on WCAT Radio. I invite you to listen in and
find inspiration along this sacred journey. We're traveling together to
make our lives a masterpiece and with God's grace, become saints.
(01:08:27):
Join me Annabel Moseley for then Sings My Soul and
Destination Sainthood on WCAT Radio. God bless you. Remember you
are never alone. God is always with you.
Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Thank you for listening to a production of WCAT Radio.
Please join us in our mission of evangelization, and don't
forget Love lifts up when knowledge takes flight.
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