Monday, January 7, 2013

Sacra coure: sacred heart

I sit in this beautiful basilica dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus. The banner hanging above the portal reads in English and French : "open wide the doors to Christ." On the cross he stretched out his arms to embrace all of humanity in every age. WE are in that embrace. The cross is made up of two beams, vertical and horizontal , and at the intersection is the Heart of Christ.
When we open the doors of our hearts to Christ's heart, the joining of the two hearts creates an explosion of love that transfigures us. The great mystery of Christianity is that we become divine as God becomes human; we become "divinized." The God Jesus came to reveal is One who wants us to share in his divine nature, recreating the world in love. The vocation of every follower of Christ is to not just love but become love for the transformation of the world.
Each one reading this has a sacred heart, a place where God dwells; our hearts and Christ's heart are fused together. This unbelievable mystery can't be explained...it can only be experienced. Buen camino. Padre



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