{"id":15615,"date":"2018-06-08T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15615"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:56:46","slug":"won-over-to-the-open-heart-of-the-savior-solemnity-of-the-sacred-heart-june-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/won-over-to-the-open-heart-of-the-savior-solemnity-of-the-sacred-heart-june-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Won Over to the Open Heart of the Savior, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, June 8, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nSolemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus<br \/>\nJune 8, 2018<br \/>\nHos 11:1.3-4.8-9, Is 12:2-6, Eph 3:8-12.14-19, Jn 19:31-37<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15615-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6.8.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6.8.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6.8.18-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A decade ago, Pope Benedict\u00a0in a Sunday Angelus greeting, said that devotion to the Sacred Heart is the \u201ccenter of the faith.\u201d That might seem a little overstated, if we understand devotion to the Sacred Heart as something that basically began in the 1670s with St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Pope Benedict, however, understood it far more broadly: The Heart of Christ, he stated, \u201cexpresses in a simple and authentic way the \u2018glad tidings\u2019 of love, summarizing the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption in itself. \u2026 God desired to enter into the limits of history and the human condition. He took on a body and a heart; thus we can contemplate and meet the infinite in the finite.\u201d\u00a0Benedict called every person to find his \u201ccenter\u201d in Jesus\u2019 Sacred Heart, which he poetically says constitutes a \u201csource of truth and goodness to draw from in the flux of the different situations of everyday life and its toil. Everyone of us, when he pauses for a moment of silence, needs to feel not only the beating of his own heart, but more deeply, the beating of a trustworthy presence, perceptible to the senses of faith and yet more real: the presence of Christ, the heart of the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s readings from the word of God focus on that &#8220;center of our faith.&#8221; In the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians, he describes God&#8217;s love that summarizes the mystery of the Incarnation and Redemption. The &#8220;inscrutable riches of Christ,&#8221; the &#8220;mystery hidden from ages past,&#8221; the &#8220;eternal purpose\u2026 accomplished in Christ Jesus,&#8221; was that each of us be &#8220;strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,\u00a0and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith&#8221; and that\u00a0&#8220;Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;\u00a0that you, rooted and grounded in love,\u00a0may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones\u00a0what is the breadth and length and height and depth,\u00a0and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,\u00a0so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.&#8221; God wants us to know his love and rooted in it, grounded in it, filled with it. That love is symbolized by Jesus&#8217; Sacred Heart.<\/li>\n<li>But God&#8217;s desire in this regard is often frustrated. His love goes unreceived and unrequited. Hosea describes this in the first reading. Through him God says that he loved Israel as a child, called him, took him in his arms, drew him with human cords and bands of love, raised him to his cheeks and so much more, but &#8220;though I stopped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer.&#8221; That&#8217;s why he said, &#8220;My heart is overwhelmed, my pity is stirred.&#8221; God wants his love received and returned not because he&#8217;s egocentric, but simply because he recognizes that receiving his love is the greatest gift we could ever have. He didn&#8217;t respond to this refusal with anger but with love. &#8220;I will not give vent to my blazing anger, I will not destroy. \u2026\u00a0For I am God and not a man,\u00a0the Holy One present among you;\u00a0I will not let the flames consume you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In order to help us recognize God&#8217;s love and begin to receive it \u2014 \u00a0the center of our faith&#8221; \u2014 we need to contemplate it. That&#8217;s what today&#8217;s Gospel is meant to help us to do. On Calvary, Jesus&#8217; heart was pierced by a lance and from it &#8220;immediately blood and water flowed out,&#8221; the contents of heart. That water and blood symbolize how God wants to infuse us with the love of his heart. That begins by creating the conditions for us to &#8220;look upon him whom they have pierced,&#8221; to look on Christ&#8217;s outpouring love, taking upon him our sins and paying the price of our redemption. We need to behold Christ&#8217;s pierced side, his Sacred Heart, continuously. This is what the Church had done for centuries before Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, pondering in a particular way John the beloved disciple&#8217;s resting on Christ&#8217;s heart in the Last Supper, a thought that permeated St. Francis de Sales&#8217; Treatise on the Love of God, St. John Eudes&#8217; preaching about Jesus&#8217; heart and more.<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s not enough for us merely to behold the one we have pierced and see his outpouring love. The Psalm reminds us to &#8220;draw water joyfully from the streams of salvation,&#8221; because Jesus&#8217; pierced side, his open heart, is the &#8220;fountain of salvation,&#8221; from which flows Him who is the Living Water and the Precious Blood that is more precious than the blood of Abel, one drop of which is enough to save the whole world. To behold Christ&#8217;s side and to draw water and blood from it is to receive Christ&#8217;s love and allow it to hydrate and inebriate us from within, so that Christ&#8217;s love can fill us to overflowing. In all of these ways, we can see how the Mystery of the Sacred Heart is at the center of our faith.<\/li>\n<li>And Jesus wanted us to do this, which is what&#8217;s behind his taking these truths of faith and making them devotional. So often devotion to the Sacred Heart has been impacted by the ugly statues with terrible saccharine &#8220;make-up&#8221; all over Jesus that makes the world&#8217;s most attractive person ever look so unappealing. The paint jobs on the Statue of the Sacred Heart are perhaps the worst on any figure of all time! I much prefer Pompeo Batoni&#8217;s image of the Sacred Heart at the Ges\u00f9 Church in Rome, which the Jesuits have taken throughout the world, which at least shows a realistic Jesus offering us his heart. But what I prefer even more is the image of the Sacred Heart in the room where I hear confessions, where the heart is far more subtle, in the center with rays of light emanating in the form of the Cross, raised in blessing us. Jesus always seeks to bless us through this devotion.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s always struck me as noteworthy that we don\u2019t have a feast of Jesus\u2019 sacred brain, even though Jesus is the eternal <em>logos<\/em>. We don\u2019t honor his hallowed hands, which, in spite of calluses from hard work in a hidden Nazarene carpentry shop, brought a tender healing touch to so many. There\u2019s no commemoration of the Lord\u2019s consecrated feet, which traversed the ancient holy land as he announced the Good News from town to town. There\u2019s no liturgical observation of Jesus\u2019 blessed eyes, which looked on the rich young man with love and were so powerful that, with one glance, they could make Peter weep in the high priest\u2019s courtyard. There\u2019s no festival of his venerable voice, which amplified the word of God made man. While there would be a certain fittingness to honoring all of these parts of Jesus\u2019 sacred anatomy \u2014 especially since his head was crowned with thorns, his hands and feet pierced by nails, his eyes bruised and beaten and his voice thoroughly parched on Good Friday out of love for us \u2014\u00a0Jesus has never asked that we do so. Rather, when he began to appear to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1673, he did so to request that a feast be instituted to honor him under the image and reality of his Sacred Heart.\u00a0The Lord\u2019s reason for choosing his heart will always remain, in some way, a great and beautiful mystery, but even with our limited human intellects we know that, according to the language and imagery of the Bible, the heart has always been considered the center of the person, the point where reason, will and emotions converge, the place where one finds his inner unity and direction. To honor Jesus\u2019 heart means that we give homage to his entire sacred humanity, conscious that Jesus took our own nature in order to offer it for us, redeem it, and make it the sacred dwelling place of God once again. To honor his heart means that we want our humanity to be transformed by his, so that we may come fully alive and thereby give God glory. Moreover, one doesn\u2019t have to be a poet to grasp that the heart is the bodily organ that most effectively symbolizes love. To adore Jesus\u2019 heart is, as we pondered with St. Paul&#8217;s letter to the Ephesians, to venerate his great love for us. When Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary, he exposed his heart and she saw it engulfed in flames, a visible sign of the passion with which he <em>burns<\/em> with love of us. Twice during the Last Supper, Jesus said that he loves us as much as the Father loves him (Jn 13:34; Jn 15:13) and, just like the Father\u2019s love for him, Jesus\u2019 love for us has no limits. Jesus himself revealed this to St. Margaret Mary when she saw his exposed, ardent heart also surrounded by a crown of thorns. No one has greater love, Jesus said, than to lay down his life for his friends, and the crown of thorns in the midst of the flames enveloping his heart is a sign of just how much suffering Jesus\u2019 love for us was willing to bear. That\u2019s the direction of Jesus\u2019 heart, where his treasure is: in loving us with his mercy, in seeking to make our hearts like unto his.<\/li>\n<li>As we saw in Hosea, however, because Jesus has a human heart, however, that heart can be broken, and it has been \u2014 and not just when it was pierced with a lance upon the Cross. Whenever we fail to align our heart and treasure with the love that beats in his heart for us, his heart is wounded. Jesus is not stoically indifferent to our rejection, but feels our unrequited love in the depth of his human heart and divine and human love. Jesus told St. Margaret Mary as much in 1675. Pointing to his heart, he said to her, \u201cBehold the heart that has so much loved men that it has spared nothing, even exhausting and consuming itself in testimony of its love. Instead of gratitude, I receive from most only indifference, irreverence, sacrilege, coldness and scorn that men have for me in the sacrament of love,\u201d Jesus\u2019 expression for the gift of himself in the Eucharist. If that wasn\u2019t enough, he went on, \u201cWhat I feel the most keenly is that it is hearts that are consecrated to me that treat me in this way.\u201d And by this he was not simply referring to priests and religious who take the loves he shows us in the Eucharist for granted but to all those who have been consecrated to him in Baptism. He gives us himself not just every Sunday but every day of the year, but is our heart set on this gift, on the love with which Jesus constantly exhausts and consumes himself in love for us?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In response to \u201cmost\u201d treating him in the \u201csacrament of love\u201d with indifference by missing Mass as if it makes no difference, Jesus wants us to make him wants us to treat him in the Mass as the greatest difference-maker in our life, as our true priority, as the \u201csource and summit\u201d of our existence, the fulcrum of our week and day. In response to \u201cmost\u201d who treat him with irreverence, who just go through the motions or who even pray Mass poorly as if it doesn\u2019t matter, he wants us to treat him with deep piety. In contrast to \u201cmost\u201d who relate to him with coldness and lack of enthusiasm, who come to Mass as bored and distracted spectators rather than ardent participants, he wants us more passionate about him at the Mass than the most fanatical sports fans are during a successful playoff run. Instead of treating him with scorn, he wants us to relate to him with grateful appreciation. And rather than receiving him sacrilegiously, without being in the state of grace, he wants us to receive him with souls fully intent on holiness and cleansed of sin. Those of us, moreover, who are consecrated to him have, in a sense, a duty to make reparation for all of those who treat Jesus poorly. If he feels most keenly the lack of love from those who are consecrated, then how much more consoling will be the love of those who are conscious of their special dedication. The best way we train to do so is by receiving Jesus in the Eucharist with precedence, piety, passion, praise and purity \u2014\u00a0in short, by treating him as he deserves.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus asked St. Margaret Mary to begin the reparation, inviting her to take St. John\u2019s place during the celebration of the Mass, to rest her head on his heart and, not only sense his love, but share in it. She felt the Lord take her heart, put it within his own, and return it burning with divine love into her breast, so that her heart, like his, might become a &#8220;burning furnace of charity.&#8221; Jesus wants, in essence, through the Mass to give us the same type of transplant. He wants us to rest our heart on his as he celebrates in the Upper Room and to receive from him his own heart so that we might love God and others as he loves us. Through the prophet Ezekiel, God had prophesied, \u201cA new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh\u201d (Ezek 36:24). He said he would do this first by \u201csprinkling clean water\u201d upon us to \u201ccleanse [us] from all [our] uncleanness\u201d (v. 25), which is what happens in the sacrament of baptism. But that was just \u201cpre-operative\u201d preparation for what the Lord wishes to do in the Eucharist. When Pope Paul VI in 1970 authorized doctors to examine, with state of the art techniques, the almost 1300-year-old Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, Italy, we were able to get a glimpse of the connection between the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart. The doctors determined that the consecrated priest\u2019s host that had turned into flesh right after the words of consecration was actually human heart wall (myocardium), cut in a cross section that would be impossible to make even with present day tools. In working such a miracle, the Lord obviously could have taken on the composition of any human body part, but chose the texture of the human heart, not simply because he was giving us the fullness of his love in this sacrament, but he was also giving us his heart so that we might be able to love like him. Because of the connection, it\u2019s also easy to see, in retrospect, why the Lord, through St. Margaret Mary, asked that the feast of his Sacred Heart be celebrated on Friday right after Corpus Christi and to venerate his heart by receiving Holy Communion on first Fridays. In the Eucharist, Jesus gives us a heart transplant, so that we might not just worship his sacred heart but receive from him a sacred heart in return. The Mass is how Jesus fulfills the prayer Catholics have lifted up for centuries: \u201cO Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto thine!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today as we celebrate Mass and prepare for that heart transplant, we ask Jesus for the grace to treat him with precedence, piety, passion, praise and purity. The Preface we will pray in a few minutes summarizes everything this feast is about, everything that I&#8217;ve tried to preach today: &#8220;Raised up high on the Cross, [Jesus] gave himself up for us with a wonderful love and poured out blood and water from his pierced side, the wellspring of the Church&#8217;s Sacraments, so that,\u00a0<i>won over to the\u00a0opera heart of the Savior,\u00a0<\/i>all might draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.&#8221; Here we draw that water with joy from his pierced and loving side!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/Hosea\/11:1\">HOS 11:1, 3-4, 8C-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the LORD:<br \/>\nWhen Israel was a child I loved him,<br \/>\nout of Egypt I called my son.<br \/>\nYet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,<br \/>\nwho took them in my arms;<br \/>\nI drew them with human cords,<br \/>\nwith bands of love;<br \/>\nI fostered them like one<br \/>\nwho raises an infant to his cheeks;<br \/>\nYet, though I stooped to feed my child,<br \/>\nthey did not know that I was their healer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">My heart is overwhelmed,<br \/>\nmy pity is stirred.<br \/>\nI will not give vent to my blazing anger,<br \/>\nI will not destroy Ephraim again;<br \/>\nFor I am God and not a man,<br \/>\nthe Holy One present among you;<br \/>\nI will not let the flames consume you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228452\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/isaiah\/12:2\">IS 12:2-3, 4, 5-6.<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (3) <strong>You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.<\/strong><br \/>\nGod indeed is my savior;<br \/>\nI am confident and unafraid.<br \/>\nMy strength and my courage is the LORD,<br \/>\nand he has been my savior.<br \/>\nWith joy you will draw water<br \/>\nat the fountain of salvation.<br \/>\nR. <strong>You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.<\/strong><br \/>\nGive thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name;<br \/>\namong the nations make known his deeds,<br \/>\nproclaim how exalted is his name.<br \/>\nR. <strong>You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.<\/strong><br \/>\nSing praise to the LORD for his glorious achievement;<br \/>\nlet this be known throughout all the earth.<br \/>\nShout with exultation, O city of Zion,<br \/>\nfor great in your midst<br \/>\nis the Holy One of Israel!<br \/>\nR. <strong>You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Reading 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/ephesians\/3:8\">EPH 3:8-12, 14-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nTo me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given,<br \/>\nto preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ,<br \/>\nand to bring to light for all what is the plan of the mystery<br \/>\nhidden from ages past in God who created all things,<br \/>\nso that the manifold wisdom of God<br \/>\nmight now be made known through the church<br \/>\nto the principalities and authorities in the heavens.<br \/>\nThis was according to the eternal purpose<br \/>\nthat he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,<br \/>\nin whom we have boldness of speech<br \/>\nand confidence of access through faith in him.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason I kneel before the Father,<br \/>\nfrom whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,<br \/>\nthat he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory<br \/>\nto be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,<br \/>\nand that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;<br \/>\nthat you, rooted and grounded in love,<br \/>\nmay have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones<br \/>\nwhat is the breadth and length and height and depth,<br \/>\nand to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,<br \/>\nso that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/matthew\/11:29\">MT 11:29AB<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nTake my yoke upon you, says the Lord;<br \/>\nand learn from me, for I am meek and gentle of heart.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/1john\/4:10\">1 JN 4:10B<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nGod first loved us<br \/>\nand sent his Son as expiation for our sins.<br \/>\nR.<strong> Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228453\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/john\/19:31\">JN 19:31-37<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Since it was preparation day,<br \/>\nin order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,<br \/>\nfor the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one,<br \/>\nthe Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken<br \/>\nand they be taken down.<br \/>\nSo the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first<br \/>\nand then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.<br \/>\nBut when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,<br \/>\nthey did not break his legs,<br \/>\nbut one soldier thrust his lance into his side,<br \/>\nand immediately blood and water flowed out.<br \/>\nAn eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true;<br \/>\nhe knows that he is speaking the truth,<br \/>\nso that you also may come to believe.<br \/>\nFor this happened so that the Scripture passage might be fulfilled:<br \/>\n<em>Not a bone of it will be broken.<\/em><br \/>\nAnd again another passage says:<br \/>\n<em>They will look upon him whom they have pierced.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sacro_Cuore_09.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15617\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sacro_Cuore_09.jpg?resize=208%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sacro_Cuore_09.jpg?resize=208%2C300&amp;ssl=1 208w, 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