Sacred Heart of Jesus

To the Sacred Heart of Jesus

O Heart of Jesus, treasure of tenderness,
You Yourself are my happiness, my only hope.
You who knew how to charm my tender youth,
Stay near me till the last night.
Lord, to you alone I’ve given my life,
And all my desires are well-known to you.
It’s in your ever-infinite goodness
That I want to lose myself, O Heart of Jesus!

Ah! I know well, all our righteousness
Is worthless in your sight.
To give value to my sacrifices,
I want to cast them into your Divine Heart.
You did not find your angels without blemish.
In the midst of lightning you gave your law! . . .
I hide myself in your Sacred Heart, Jesus.
I do not fear, my virtue is You! . . .

To be able to gaze on your glory,
I know we have to pass through fire.
So I, for my purgatory,
Choose your burning love, O heart of my God!
On leaving this life, my exiled soul
Would like to make an act of pure love,
And then, flying away to Heaven, its Homeland,
Enter straightaway into your Heart.

St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Poetry

Trinity Sunday

Wow. Here we are at Trinity Sunday already. Time flies!


I once gave a homily in which I likened the Trinity as to a family. The love of the husband and wife was so great that it gave birth to a third person, the baby. I know analogies are very lacking when it comes to topics such as this, but I try. Therefore, it is on a much more immeasurable scale the love of God the Father and of the Son manifested itself into the Holy Spirit and it moves infinitely among the three. So much so that it was always that way and ever will be.


The Trinity is a concept hard to understand, yet glorious to contemplate. We marvel at the Words in the Bible and somehow come to a dim realization of the mystery of three in one. It is God's revelation to us and I think His intent is for us not to understand fully, but to grow in knowledge.


Our Catholic faith teaches us that He is always present and His Son has shed His blood for us and the Holy Spirit empowers us to live our lives in His name. It is through that same power that the Church has been established by Jesus Christ to be the beacon of light in a darkened world. A darkened world growing ever darker, but never without hope as long as the Church exists!


So, my thoughts turn to my first point of the family. If the family is so close in image to the Trinity, and the secular world is trying to destroy and reinvent the family, would it  also mean that secular society is trying to destroy and reinvent the Trinity? It is not only a full frontal assault on the family, but an assault on the Church and even God Himself. I mean, the government is trying to legislate morality and tell us how to think and enforce how we are to think, so that means they are trying to replace natural law, eternal law and God.
 
We, as a Church, need to awaken to that power given to us through the Holy Spirit and be the hands and feet AND VOICE of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. This can only be done if we, as Catholics, become Catholic in every sense of the name. United and universal, thinking with one mind, beating with one heart and living as one soul, concerned only with the salvation of souls and the good of the other can this  be done. 


If the secular world sees a united Church, it will see the light of Christ and will either squint its eyes and retreat back under the dark rock where it resides in fear, or have its eyes opened fully and rejoice in the hope that comes only from the grace poured out by God to His people, ALL of his people.


May the unity of the people of God, bound together in love, be our goal. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.