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“This Promise of the Sacred Heart is a fulfillment of the prophecy of Ezekiel 36:26: I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. With what do priests touch these hardened…

We have an open floor plan in our home. In one corner, we have a sacred space table and just above it is an image of the Sacred Heart. While Jesus is ever present, the image is a reminder that He watches over the space that is the crux of our family life. His Heart…

“Which word surprises you in this promise?  For me, it’s “speedily.”   Speedily rise to perfection?  Don’t great saints take a whole lifetime to get there?     But think of what happens to us if we open ourselves totally … without reserve, nothing hidden, just completely shared…to another, and then our open vulnerable self is not…

Jesus loves us passionately! It was with great passion that He came to earth, became man, and suffered and died for our sins. Tepid or lukewarm love would have never gotten the job done, would it?  It would not, and Jesus knows it! That is why in Revelation 3:16 we are told that God would prefer to spit out of his…