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August 17, 2012

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Reflection on the Spirit of the Sacred Heart
August 17, 2012
A desire that is permanently transformed into spiritual life.
Waiting that is hard to bear:

years of patience, though desire is as keen
years of uncertainty, though direction is not lost
years of frustration, though the Spirit is never stifled.

A desire that can wait without despair will bear more fruit;
a desire that grows and keeps on growing while waiting is the seed of the hundredfold.

A hope that guides us infallibly:
Rose Philippine's desire is

no empty promise,
no hollow inspiration,
no vain word;

it is convincingly real, rich, exemplary;
it is creative action, dynamic, rock-solid, pregnant with the future;
a dream already come true, yet still to be realised.

Rosario Valdeavellano rscj
from Peru, Comunidad Internacional, Roma


   For Reflection... 

Rose Philippine, our holy sister, had a heart so like your own Lord; you kept feeding the spring that welled up in her, and we ask you to do the same in us.

Arouse in us the same fiery, impulsive desire, the same passionate longing for your Kingdom, the insatiable thirst and hope of always being able to find you; give us, too, hearts like your own.


Rosario Valdeavellano rscj
from Peru, Comunidad Internacional, Roma



sunrise set rpsales  

      
Painting by Paz Rozales, rscj   
   

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