Solemnity of the
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Reflection: I imagine if Jesus walked on the earth today he would not be looking so much at TV or a computer screen (which, alas, we are doing at this moment). Rather he would want to look upon the faces of the poor and the suffering.
Reflection: I imagine if Jesus walked on the earth today he would not be looking so much at TV or a computer screen (which, alas, we are doing at this moment). Rather he would want to look upon the faces of the poor and the suffering.
The last line of today's Gospel from the Sacred Heart of Jesus invites us to pay attention to the people to whom we have done harm or neglected. Many who gazed upon the tortured body of Jesus were moved to a change of heart. We too desire to transform our actions from the routine and bland to the renewed and generous. For example, one act of charity today would be to choose to linger your eyesight upon someone or something you normally ignore: the poor, a news article, an enemy, your Bible. What flows from that act of blessed attention?
Jesus chose to look upon people in need. May the Sacred Heart move us to do the same
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