June 8, 2012

Reflection on the Spirit of the Sacred Heart June 8, 2012

We are called to become the Heart of Christ on earth today - all of us.     His pierced Heart pours out love, pours out forgiveness, pours out compassion and new life, so that once God makes us aware of what we have done, our sin becomes our salvation.   If our hearts are pierced by the harmful words or deeds around us, we want to pour out love and forgiveness, not revenge, retaliation, rejection. The Spirit of Jesus, dwelling in us, can make this possible. From A glimpse of the spirituality of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Margie Conroy, rscj, Province of Uganda-Kenya     (http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality.html)

For Reflection...   Wherever we are sent, whatever our work may be, our lives will be inspired by the love of the Heart of Jesus and the desire of making Him known, expressed in: a concern for the growth of the whole person; a thirst for working towards justice and peace in the world in response to the cry of the poor; a passion to proclaim the Gospel. (#13) Extract from Constitution of the Society of the Sacred Heart (http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality.html)      Photograph by Nancy Durand, rscj  http://www.rscjinternational.org/images/stories/creative_space/0609/0609_5.jpg