{"id":31085,"date":"2014-06-27T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31085"},"modified":"2014-06-27T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:34:40","slug":"sacred-heart-of-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/sacred-heart-of-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Heart of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sacred<\/a>God\u2019s heart, as the expression of his will, is spoken of twenty-six times in the Old Testament. Before God\u2019s heart men and women stand judged. […]<\/p>\n

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Yet another passage of the Old Testament speaks of God\u2019s heart with absolute clarity: it is in the eleventh chapter of the book of the Prophet Hosea, whose opening lines portray the Lord\u2019s love for Israel at the dawn of its history: \u201cWhen Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son\u201d (Hos 11:1). Israel, however, responds to God\u2019s constant offer of love with indifference and even outright ingratitude. \u201cThe more I called them\u201d, the Lord is forced to admit, \u201cthe more they went from me\u201d (v. 2). Even so, he never abandons Israel to the power of its enemies, because \u201cmy heart\u201d\u2014the the Creator of the universe observes\u2014\u201crecoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender\u201d (v. 8).<\/p>\n

The heart of God burns with compassion! On today\u2019s solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus the Church presents us this mystery for our contemplation: the mystery of the heart of a God who feels compassion and who bestows all his love upon humanity. A mysterious love, which in the texts of the New Testament is revealed to us as God\u2019s boundless and passionate love for mankind. God does not lose heart in the face of ingratitude or rejection by the people he has chosen; rather, with infinite mercy he sends his only-begotten Son into the world to take upon himself the fate of a shattered love, so that by defeating the power of evil and death he could restore to human beings enslaved by sin their dignity as sons and daughters. But this took place at great cost\u2014the only-begotten Son of the Father was sacrificed on the Cross: \u201cHaving loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end\u201d (cf. Jn 13:1). The symbol of this love which transcends death is his side, pierced by a spear. The Apostle John, an eyewitness, tells us: \u201cone of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water\u201d (cf. Jn 19:34). […]<\/p>\n

To be \u201cin\u201d Jesus Christ is already to be seated in heaven. The very core of Christianity is expressed in the heart of Jesus; in Christ the revolutionary \u201cnewness\u201d of the Gospel is completely revealed and given to us: the Love that saves us and even now makes us live in the eternity of God.<\/p>\n

Benedict XVI
\nSolemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
\n19 June 2009<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God\u2019s heart, as the expression of his will, is spoken of twenty-six times in the Old Testament. Before God\u2019s heart men and women stand judged. […] Yet another passage of the Old Testament speaks of God\u2019s heart with absolute clarity: it is in the eleventh chapter of the book of the Prophet Hosea, whose opening … Continue reading Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[32098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31087,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions\/31087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}