June 1, 2012

Reflection on the Spirit of the Sacred Heart June 1, 2012

...I beg you to be faithful to your exercises of piety. Our holy Rule tells us we should love meditation.    Strive with all your energy to become an interior soul. You have the necessary dispositions, and, believe me, your present difficulties come from neglecting to develop them....    Our difficulties come from our too great eagerness for the things of this world. Mother Aloysia Hardey, writing in a letter, 1859 From a biography, Mary Aloysia Hardey, Religious of the Sacred Heart, 1809-1886, page 212,    by Mary Garvey   (http://books.google.com/books?id=sOMEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=mother+hardey+rscj&source=bl&ots=CsOFFI5nmq&sig=P2kuoqLTov0Ety_VI2Cq0HUvceM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DDTIT9b7JsW22gXz_enGDQ&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=mother%20hardey%20rscj&f=false)

For Reflection...   Silence and interior life are the condition for recognising God's presence and welcoming his love as an invitation, as the way to go, and as a compass for the plans we make as persons, communities and groups.    "Hence it follows that the spirit of this Society is essentially based upon prayer and the interior life, since we cannot glorify the adorable Heart of Jesus worthily, save inasmuch as we apply ourselves to study its interior dispositions in order to unite and conform ourselves to them." (1815 #5) From Validity, Dynamism and Vitality of the Society's Charism by Georgina Zubiría, rscj, Mexico 2010 (http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/news-notshown-47/2844-theological-reflections-by-rscj-on-the-priorities-of-general-chapter-2008.html#theological_reflections_eng)   Artwork by Tona Monzon, rscj   http://media.rscjinternational.org/general/whoweare/creativespace/resources/0508tona/tona5.jpg