TThe first reading speaks today of "a knowledge that even surpasses knowledge!"
It is experiential knowledge of true, immediate and overwhelming love that
originates in God alone, is distributed by him and is offered to mankind to be
shared in by his gracious free-will gift.
When Chvist dwells in our hearts through faith, when his love is experienced in
the depth of our beings, then we can comprehend with all the holy ones, the
breadth and length and height and depth of God which surpasses all buman
knowledge — and we can have the fullness of God!
All of this is summarized in the Heart of Jesus. God made available to
humanity the experience of being loved immensely by himself through the
Heart of Jesus, his Son, who loved us to the point of giving his life for us!
The Sacred, Adorable and Generous Heart of Jesus is the fountain from which
all graces flow. Jesus himself wanted this very dynamic to be made known and
celebrated throughout the centuries,
In the 17 century he chose Margaret Mary Alacoque, to be the principal
founder of devotion to his Most Sacred Heart
Due to the thinking of the time which exaggerated the sinfulness and
‘unworthiness of mea, the mercy and love of God were to be emphasized and
celebrated with a special feast in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the
Friday alter Corpus Christi — and then on the First Fridays of the month
thereafter.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a simple and humble woman who was
receptive to the message of God's Heart, God's Merey, God's Forgiveness.
May we follow their example and give Jesus our burdens, our mistakes, our sins
and take upon ourselves his yoke which is easy and light - as it emanates from
his meek and humble Ileart - because he made it so.
Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little
‘ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.
“1 need nothing but God, and to lase myself in the heart of Jesus.”