MARY AND THE DEATH OF JESUS
3. The Piercing of the Heart.
Jesus was dead, but there was still His Mother who could continue to suffer for Him. And in fact this was the case. One of the soldiers, to make sure of death, buried his spear into the side of Jesus. The thrust was so vigorous that it went right into the heart. It did not make the Son suffer more but how it pierced the heart of the Mother. With what love would She collect the Blood that flowed from the Heart of Her Son! The last drop of Blood that still remained. The last that He was shedding for the salvation of the world.
The open side of Christ is a most consoling mystery. Through that wound, as through a large doorway, we can, as so many loving souls have done before, enter freely and hide within the Sacred Heart of Jesus and dwell therein. This happy wound has torn the veil that concealed that Heart. Jesus' Heart which had so loved men, lies bare, open to all, that we may see it, adore it, learn from it the sublime lesson of His love. You cannot know what love is unless you enter into the most intimate recesses of that Heart. That is the unique school, the only model.
We may suppose that Our Heavenly Mother, in the midst of Her sufferings, on contemplating that enormous wound, fell into ecstasy. She, before anybody, was the first to watch that Heart. She had never seen it before. Possibly, She prostrated Herself in adoration and atonement for all those present as well as for all who throughout the centuries to come would offend Him. That was the first public act of worship and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Mary was the first adorer and atoner of the Divine Heart. Learn from Mary this sanctifying devotion. She is the treasurer of the wealth of that Heart. She possesses its key. Ask your Mother to place you inside the Heart of Jesus and to lock you there so that you may never abandon that shelter where the lukewarm becomes fervent and the fervent becomes a saint.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
3. The Piercing of the Heart.
Jesus was dead, but there was still His Mother who could continue to suffer for Him. And in fact this was the case. One of the soldiers, to make sure of death, buried his spear into the side of Jesus. The thrust was so vigorous that it went right into the heart. It did not make the Son suffer more but how it pierced the heart of the Mother. With what love would She collect the Blood that flowed from the Heart of Her Son! The last drop of Blood that still remained. The last that He was shedding for the salvation of the world.
The open side of Christ is a most consoling mystery. Through that wound, as through a large doorway, we can, as so many loving souls have done before, enter freely and hide within the Sacred Heart of Jesus and dwell therein. This happy wound has torn the veil that concealed that Heart. Jesus' Heart which had so loved men, lies bare, open to all, that we may see it, adore it, learn from it the sublime lesson of His love. You cannot know what love is unless you enter into the most intimate recesses of that Heart. That is the unique school, the only model.
We may suppose that Our Heavenly Mother, in the midst of Her sufferings, on contemplating that enormous wound, fell into ecstasy. She, before anybody, was the first to watch that Heart. She had never seen it before. Possibly, She prostrated Herself in adoration and atonement for all those present as well as for all who throughout the centuries to come would offend Him. That was the first public act of worship and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Mary was the first adorer and atoner of the Divine Heart. Learn from Mary this sanctifying devotion. She is the treasurer of the wealth of that Heart. She possesses its key. Ask your Mother to place you inside the Heart of Jesus and to lock you there so that you may never abandon that shelter where the lukewarm becomes fervent and the fervent becomes a saint.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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