Way back 2018, me and my wife had a 3-day retreat in a Benedictine Monastery in Malaybalay,

Bukidnon (Mindanao, South part of the Philippines) and on the second day, one of our silent time, I tried
to check my new phone (at that time) especially the calendar and I just tried to see if what day I was
born. To my surprise, it was on the first Friday of the month of July (July 7, 1989), which means the
devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! In my 29 years of existence (at that time), it never occurred to me
nor having the information that I was born in the day where the devotion of Love chanted on every
church. At this point, all my reflection and meditation were focused on the idea that the Sacred Heart of
Jesus predestined me to follow, love, and serve him all the days of my life. Those moments answered my
deepest desire of my soul especially my spirituality and my cultivated devotion.

Before the retreat, I was struggling to adjust myself in a married state and finding a job that
suitable to my formation. It was so timely, because I was beginning to calibrate my life to my newfound
devotion and spirituality and finding it so difficult pulling me aback to my usual way of doings, I found
the love of such beautiful devotion and the summarization of all spiritualties, I was at peace. I regained
my momentum in my married life and I was able to find suitable job, it was a grace, from then on, I put
myself in the Heart of Jesus.

Knowing this, I kinda believed that this is my life; I was predestined to be at place to this
devotion. My fantasy is; if I were to join a religious order, I would change my name into Francis-Ignatius
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Francis of Assisi and Ignatius of Loyola are my two greatest hero-saint and
the last name would be my devotion, Sacred Heart of Jesus! Looking at it, somehow sum up my whole
life so to speak and bringing such name reminded me of my wholeness to the Eternal Thou.

The Haurietis Aquas deepen this holy devotion. Deepen in the sense of a validation to what I
believed and realized about the effect in this devotion. Deepen in the sense of my spirituality and
deepen my entirety of my life in general. The kenosis or emptying of oneself ultimately conditions my
whole being to the living water of grace that is the Heart of Jesus. The readings especially the encyclical
proved to me how God, in his infinite mercy and love, flowed on me in spite my frailties, weakness and
sinfulness. But proving is not limit to the words of the Holy Father but the very life of Jesus Christ in the
gospel. What was happened to me in the retreat brought me to a renewal of my devotion and my life in
particular!

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere.

Sweet Heart of my Jesus, grant that I may always love You more.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me.

Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give myself to You through Mary.

Sweetest Jesus, hide me in Your Sacred Heart. Do not permit me to be separated from You. Defend me
from the evil foe.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your kingdom come!

Sacred Heart of Jesus, let me love You and make you loved.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, set our hearts on fire with love of You!