Daily Meditation - Friday 30May 2008 (SOLEMNITY SACRED HEART) - A CRY SOUNDING FROM THE PIERCED HEART OF JESUS

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Matthew 11:25-30
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
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Today, as we celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart, let’s rejoice in the love, mercy, and intimacy that flow from it.
  • Let’s listen for the cry that sounds from the depths of Jesus’ pierced heart:
  • Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).
  • Come and lay down your sorrows.
  • Let me hold you and comfort you.
  • All those things in your life that are too hard,
  • let me carry them for you.
When you don’t know how to love, forgive, get past the anger, let me help you.
  • Come and tell me about your worries and challenges,your hopes and dreams.
  • Come and let me fill your heart to overflowing. I promise I will give you rest.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes heard that appeal and replied: If I am tired, even if I am exhausted, I can rest in the heart of Jesus.
  • Jesus, I am tired—
  • tired of plodding on the same treadmill every day,
  • tired of working so hard to serve you and others,
  • tired of yielding to temptation yet again.
Thank you that I can rest in your mercy and forgiveness!

St. Frances Cabrini answered Jesus’ cry this way: I would become weak . . . if I were to be without the sleep of prayer . . . in the heart of my beloved Jesus.
  • Sorrow smolders in my heart, Jesus.
  • Worry saps my strength.
  • I want to follow you, but the obstacles discourage me.
  • Thank you that I can lay my head, and my anxieties, on your breast.
  • Strengthen me, Lord, as I rest in you today.
  • Jesus told St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: My heart is so inflamed with love for you.
  • Jesus, sometimes I don’t trust your love.
  • It is so easy for me to focus only on my sins and think that they are the only things that inflame your heart—inflame it to anger or condemnation.
  • So I come longing for relief from the sting of guilt, and to know your love more intimately.
“I want to set down the burdens I carry, Jesus,
and step back from the busyness of today.
I want to drink of your living water.
I want to know you and the Father,
and to remain in you always.

And so, Jesus, I come to rest.”
 
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