(c)Mary TV 2020
June 20, 2020
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear Family of Mary!
In the midst of our novena, we have had the Feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary today (Saturday). Thanks be to God, Reuben has sent us a beautiful reflection for those two days that will help us to grasp the love that surrounds us from those two hearts! Thank you Reuben!!
From Heart to Heart!!
January 2, 2008 "Dear children! With all the strength of my heart, I love you and give myself to you. As a mother fights for her children, I pray and fight for you. I ask you not to be afraid to open yourselves, so as to be able to love with the heart and give yourselves to others. The more that you do this with the heart, the more you will receive and the better you will understand my Son and His gift to you. Through the love of my Son and me, may you all be recognized. Thank you." Our Lady blessed all those present and religious articles brought for blessing. She asked for prayer and fasting for our shepherds
I am writing on the Feast of the Sacred Heart. Once again, I
find myself thinking about the incarnate nature of our faith: how it's
not a set of intellectual beliefs abstracted from the purely spiritual,
but is grounded in the material. And so much so, that Our Lord in heaven
made himself material among us by His incarnation in history, and by
the Sacred Host of our Eucharist, which is really where the same reality
outside of all time enters time. Christ is the unity of God and man,
just as we are the unity of soul and body. The whole of God and heaven
condescends to be with us in a way which we, as body-souls, can touch
and taste and cling to! As Denis is fond of saying - heaven is a real
place, with real food!!
Why am I thinking about this today? Because it's a feast day
which celebrates exactly what I'm saying: how God himself, in all his
almightiness and power, came to take on a beating human heart that loves
us beyond all human measure. And one thing is for sure, that all of us
will see this God-Man soon. No matter the length of days left to each
individual, or to the world, our lives are as short as the blinking of
an eye, when they are seen from God's eternal perspective. Soon, all of
us will stand in front of the incarnate God and hear his beating heart.
Judgement will be in relation to this heart. We will have to ask
ourselves how much time and care we spent here on earth loving that
Heart which loved us all the way to the cross.
And now that we are in the age of Divine Mercy, heralded by
the Mother's real material presence in Medjugorje, we might dare to say
that this Sacred Heart beats more passionately than ever for souls. We
might say what St Paul says, that where sin abounds, grace abounds all
the more. It is as though that very Heart of Christ's is opening itself
up to more and more piercings of more and more lances, and all for love.
And don't we feel that in Medjugorje? Isn't the presence of the Mother
in Medjugorje such an immediate and tangible way to hear the beat of
Christ's merciful heart?
I was looking at archive footage of all the many people in
the crowds praying at the liturgy in Medjugorje. I was deeply struck by
what I saw there. Every face, bar none, and in such an individual
manner, was deeply at prayer. One could literally see and almost touch
the love of person to person so visible on each of their faces.
Because that's surely what happens there at the Mother's
home. We become children of she who has an immaculate heart, and so we
can learn from her to open our own hearts to the Sacred Heart, which is
that heart that so perpetually wants to save and sanctify us.
I noted how all the faces that I saw looked both joyful AND
pained, because that's what love is like. When we become children of
God, really knowing in our hearts what our eldest brother did for us, we
are pained by the pain He experiences for all of us, and so we become
brothers and sisters, who can feel exactly the same pain for each other,
yet always with an equal measure of a joy which is entirely
other-worldly, and really makes no sense at all to the unspiritual
person. Isn't that amazing, how the spiritual essence of mercy is
something that courses through our physical veins, changing even the way
we feel, as though directing all our senses to gather in the sights and
sounds that help us feel it? Mercy is incarnate in Christ, but
sometimes, even I can actually, literally and materially feel it become
incarnate in me too. Heart really does want to speak to heart, and Our
Mother really does want to encourage the conversation.....
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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