God Is At Work In You!: Meaningful Matters of Inseparable Hearts

Experience very meaningful and powerful moments of Divine intimacy along the Way of the Cross, and allow yourself to be transformed into Love Himself.

God is so in love with you!

Don't ever just be Catholic; be PROFOUNDLY Catholic! There is so much more of God's love to discover and then keep rediscovering.

Begin by seeing things in a whole new way.

SPIRITUAL OPPOSITES CONCERNING MATTERS OF THE HEART

Perhaps before embarking on this particular journey of the heart with our Lord, the devil already had you on his radar and did a fine job battering your heart after which he handed it back to you on a silver platter. +

Be glad; when you pass it on to Jesus and Blessed Mother, it will have taken on the likeness of their inseparable Sacred and Immaculate Hearts. It's new colors even represent them both ~ black for our High Priest, and blue for Our Lady.

OUR HEARTS UNITED WITH HIS

Jesus shows us many things when we are open to His inspirations and when we make a sincere effort to grow closer to Him by living sacramental lives of heroic virtue.

What Jesus shares with you today is very profoundly loving and meaningful, and comes right from His Wounded and immeasurably loving Sacred Heart.

A VISIT TO THE PILLAR

During Holy Mass on the Feast of St. Therese, the Lord takes you to the place in church where He is mystically scourged at the pillar. He inspires you use your heart like a sponge and very reverently soak up His Precious Blood as it projects from His Sacred Body and as it lands on the ground.

Later in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, you are inspired to press your heart against the Wound in His Sacred Heart as He hangs on the Cross, again using it like a sponge to absorb His Sacred Blood.

Absorb Jesus' love and mercy into your heart.

SO MUCH (LOVE) IS POSSIBLE

It is also possible for us to take the hearts of others in an action of thought as we pray for them, and use their hearts to absorb Christ's Precious Blood as well. So much could be said about that, the effects of pressing our and also other's hearts against His Sacred Wounds, the gateways to the "confessionals" of His love and mercy, and against His Sacred Heart just after the spear is withdrawn. In this way, we absorb His Precious Blood and are transformed into His likeness.

Words apparently can have a similar effect; we can use other's names like sponges to absorb the love and mercy of God as they come into contact with Christ's Sacred Blood, as we venerate our Savior during His Passion and Crucifixion. We can use the words of prayer and songs in a similar way.

Saint John Vianney joins you in church and it's no coincidence that the Patron Saint of Parish Priests is with you so profoundly to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on the Feast Day of St. Therese of the Holy Face.

THE LAST SUPPER DURING HOLY MASS

In a similar way to how Jesus has us look into His eyes in the confessional while we make an Act of Contrition as He hangs on the Cross before us, Jesus has you look right into His eyes during the Last Supper as He prepares for the consecration. He looks at every single one of us very personally at that moment, and what a moment of Divine intimacy it is when we return His loving and merciful gaze...

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God is so in love with us all.

Just before Holy Communion, Jesus has you use your heart to dab His eyes, mouth, Sacred Heart, and Wounds as He hangs on the Cross. May we use our hearts to collect every precious and Sacred Tear and drop of His Blood.

While saying to Him, "Lord, I am not worthy..." our words travel through the air to Him, and through them we also venerate His injuries while thanking Him for His sacrifice.

You also see that by venerating Christ's Wounds with our hearts we are also at the same time, through all time, pressing our hearts against the wounds of all those who enter confessionals to be reconciled to God. By doing this, we invoke the power of Christ's Precious Blood to help their wounds heal, especially wounded and broken hearts.

To love and honor Jesus is to love and honor one another.

We perform these loving and merciful actions for Jesus and also for others, and in a similar way, Jesus wipes our tears and our wounds with His Sacred Heart, healing our wounds with His Precious Blood.

BEGIN THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES AT THE LAST SUPPER

The Lord has you begin the Sorrowful Mysteries at the Last Supper. Jesus calls you very close to Him at that time, and He invites us all to come very close to Him then. Our Jesus wants us very near to Him when He says the very powerful words, "This is My Body, which is given up for you." Then, He requests that we offfer ourselves to Him in return.

You look into each others' eyes as He speaks; it is so incredibly intimate, and loving.

Jesus transforms you at that time into a living Devotion to His Most Holy Face, into His mirror.

MORE ABOUT OUR HEARTS

Jesus continues with the theme of mutually loving hearts which He began presenting to you this morning.

We are to offer our hearts to Jesus, Who has given and continues to give us His, and place our hearts on the table/altar before Jesus on that Holy Thursday, and also every single day during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Do you go, every day? Jesus invites you to share in the mystery of His Passion and Death, and your redemption, every single day by joining Him for Holy Mass. Have you responded to His personal invitation? Have you received His invitation. You are officially invited! Jesus wants every single one of us to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with Him, and wed our lives to His.

TWO HEARTS AND FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

Journey with Jesus through the Sorrowful Mysteries. Love and console one another with all your hearts during each mystery. As you journey with Christ through His Passion, He transforms you into Himself because you have given Him your love and your consent.

In the Garden the Lord inspires you to use your heart to wipe Jesus' Sacred Face as He cried Tears of Blood, and then He takes His Heart and uses it to absorb your tears... it is all so very touching, so deeply moving, so incredibly meaningful.

As Jesus is scourged at the pillar, you press your heart against His Sacred Wounds, absorb His Tears, and wipe His Sacred and suffering Face, as you look into each others' eyes...

... the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus is honored through these actions.

His suffering and Sacred Heart consoles you also, as He redeems us all...

In a similar manner, you use your heart to absorb Christ's Sacred Blood as He was crowned with thorns and He also consoles you with His Heart...you actually stand side by side, both crowned with thorns, both of your hands are bound and each of you holds a scepter, but you are nevertheless able to console one another in this way with your hearts even though bound... We are all still able to love despite limitations; in fact, sacrificial love makes this exchange even more powerful and deeply meaningful.

The same thing happens as you carry the Cross together; when we love the Lord as we should we bring Him such consolation and He is also consoling us through our trials... Just imagine your soul's interaction with Jesus as you carry the Cross with Him to Calvary...look deep into His eyes as He looks into yours, with such unfathomable love, and longing.

INSEPARABILITY

As Jesus hangs crucified on the Cross we once again venerate the Lord's Sacred Wounds with our hearts, and as we do so mystically become one with Christ as His Sacred Blood comes into contact with ours. How does that happen? When we give our consent to be unified with the Lord, His Precious Blood becomes ours, and ours becomes His. We become one and the same.

Remember to surrender your heart to God in imitation of Christ, for the benefit of everyone.

Remember that we can use our hearts to console one another, and to help heal each others' wounds.

Deepen your union with Christ by loving sacrificially and by loving much. Always be mindful of the importance of meditating on Christ's Passion every single day, and venerate His Sacred Body and Blood while doing so. Allow yourself to be transformed into His likeness.

Contained within the Sacred Body and Blood of Jesus are both Sacraments of Divine Intimacy, and they are as inseparable from one another as our hearts are from Jesus' Sacred Heart, from the Blessed Sacrament, and from the Sacrament of Reconciliation.