Fr. Francesco Giordano, STD: The Sacred Heart of Jesus: A Divine Connection Through History

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a profound and essential aspect of Catholic spirituality, encapsulating the love and compassion of Christ towards humanity. It is about the depths of the heart of Jesus, as is aptly described in the liturgy’s use of Ephesians 3: “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” The width and the length and the height and the depths of His love are truly immeasurable.

This devotion centers on the mercy of God, which cannot be understood apart from His justice. When one truly comprehends, in justice, how grave sin is and then witnesses the profound love that Jesus extends when he seeks forgiveness, he begins to grasp the depths of this love—something that the judicious demons can never understand. They weigh all of our sins and demand payment for them upon judgment, but if we have relied on the mercy that God shows us, much like the blood flowing from the side of Christ when Longinus’ sword pierces it, then and only then can we be saved and taste the deep love of God for us….
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