IMMACULATE

HEART OF
MARY
 O LORD MY GOD, FOR WE LOVE AND TRUST YOU AND
DESIRE TO BE SET APART UNTO YOU, IN HOLINESS AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
WE DESIRE TO BE HOLY FOR YOU ARE HOLY AND YOU
HAVE CALLED ALL YOUR CHILDREN TO BE SET APART
UNTO YOU, AND TO BE REFINED IN THE REFINING FIRES
OF YOUR PURIFYING LOVE AND UNIMAGINABLE
GRACE, SO THAT WE MAY COME FORTH AS PURE GOLD
IN YOUR SIGHT.
JESUS’ CALLS TO
PURITY
WHAT IS PURITY?
 BEATITUDES
(MATTHEW 5:8)
“BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN
HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE
GOD”
WHAT IS IT TO HAVE
A PURE HEART?
To be pure in heart implies that our love is
wholly directed toward the good of the
other person. We are “single-hearted,” and
not divided in our love.
 A WAY OF
DISCIPLESHIP
SEEING GOD IS THE
GREAT GOAL OF
BEING PURE
 JESUS
POINTING US TO A
SPIRITUAL PURITY, OR
A PURITY OF HEART. 
 WHAT EXACTLY
DOES JESUS MEAN
BY BEING PURE IN
HEART?
WE MUST BE CONCERNED ABOUT
WHERE OUR AFFECTIONS AND
DEVOTIONS LIE.
THE AIM OF JESUS CHRIST
IS NOT TO REFORM THE
MANNERS OF SOCIETY, BUT
TO CHANGE THE HEARTS
OF SINNERS LIKE YOU AND
ME. 
WHO YOU ARE?
THE HEART IS WHAT YOU ARE, IN THE
SECRECY OF YOUR THOUGHT AND
FEELING, WHEN NOBODY KNOWS
BUT GOD. AND WHAT YOU ARE AT THE
INVISIBLE ROOT MATTERS AS MUCH
TO GOD AS WHAT YOU ARE AT THE
VISIBLE BRANCH.
 “MAN LOOKS ON THE
OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT
THE LORD LOOKS ON THE
HEART” (1 SAMUEL 16:7). FROM THE
HEART ARE ALL THE ISSUES OF
LIFE.
 WHAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH
PROCEEDS FROM THE HEART . . . FOR
OUT OF THE HEART COME EVIL
THOUGHTS, MURDER, ADULTERY,
FORNICATION, THEFT, FALSE
WITNESS, SLANDER. THESE ARE
WHAT DEFILE A MAN” (MATTHEW 15:18–19
).
PURITY COMMUNICATES
WHOLENESS.
 TO SEE GOD…
1. TO BE ADMITTED TO HIS PRESENCE.
2. TO BE AWESTRUCK BY HIS GLORY.
3. TO BE COMFORTED BY HIS GRACE.
 AS DISCIPLES OF JESUS
CHRIST, WE ARE CALLED
TO THE HAPPINESS THAT
COMES FROM A CLEAN AND
UNDIVIDED HEART.
 MOMENTS OF
REFLECTION
1. WHAT IS IT TO SEE GOD?
2. WHAT IS IT TO BE PURE IN
HEART?
3. HOW ARE THESE TWO
THINGS BOUND TOGETHER?
 In the Beatitudes Christ offers us a
perfect model for true Christian
living. Even more than the Ten
Commandments themselves, they are
a charter for the high moral calling
Christ sets for His disciples.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS