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Edition October
1999
Heart to heart
"This
is the Heart"
EDITORIAL Mother Adela Galindo,
Foundress, SCTJM
© Only for
personal use
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
“Here is the Heart that has so loved humanity
that it has stopped at nothing in order to save
them and to reveal to them my Love.” These are
the words that Jesus told Saint Margaret Mary de
Alacoque on the 16th of June in 1675 when He
revealed His Heart to her.
Jesus has revealed to us His Heart! Yes, my
brothers and sisters, Jesus desires that we
contemplate the immensity of love within His
Heart. He wants us to know how large, wide, deep
and high His love is. We should become aware
that God desires us to have a true knowledge of
His love. By coming to know His love, we will
know Him because “God is love” (1 John 4,8).
We need to ask ourselves then, “What is the love
of the Heart of Jesus like?” First of all, we
need to understand that it is an infinite love,
a sacrificial love, a love of self-offering that
is “unto the extreme” (cf. John 13,1). It is a
love that will stop at nothing, absolutely
nothing, in order to save us, to free us, to
heal us and to give to us His life of grace and
holiness. It is such a faithful, constant and
eternal love that there is nothing at all which
can separate us from Him: “Who will separate us
from the love of Christ?... tribulation?,
anguish?, persecution?, hunger?, nakedness?,
danger?, death?... for I am sure that nothing
will be able to separate us from the love of God
manifested in Christ Jesus, our Lord” (Rom 8,
35-39).
The love of Jesus is radically new because it
transcends all of our limited ideas and limited
loves. It is a universal love, reaching all –
our neighbor, our brother, the one with whom we
share the same faith, and even to our enemies.
It is a love that causes a true revolution in
our hearts. It moves us to bless those who curse
us (Rom12, 14); to pray for those who persecute
us and to love our enemies (Mt 5, 44); to turn
the other cheek when we have been struck (Mt
5,39); to give our cloak to him who has taken
our coat (Mt 5,40); to sell everything we have
and give it to the poor (Lk 18,21); to forgive
those who have offended us (Mt 6,12); even to
give our very lives for others (John 15,13).
The love of the Heart of Jesus is compassionate
and merciful. It is a love that forgives and
forgets. It is a love that enters into the very
depths, even in to the abyss, in order to lift
up those who have fallen, to redeem the sinner.
Jesus is the Good Shepherd who seeks the lost
sheep, heals the ones that are paralyzed, and
carries the ones who are weak in His arms. He is
the Good Samaritan who heals suffering humanity,
wounded by the mortal wounds of sin. His love is
bountiful, giving itself gratuitously to all,
healing the sick, freeing those oppressed by
evil spirits, multiplying bread and fish in
order to feed the hungry, and changing water
into wine so that the newlywed couple will not
suffer embarrassment. He brings the dead back to
life to console their families; He eats with the
tax-collectors and sinners; He frees an
adulterous woman about to be stoned; and above
all, He forgives - He forgives the sinners.
The love of Jesus is redemptive. In other words,
it frees us from the snares of the devil, sin
and death. It is a love that is not content with
leaving us in our misery, but that desires to
elevate us to the dignity of being sons and
daughters of God and living as such. It was the
love of Jesus that made the adulterous woman
leave her public sin and become a faithful
follower of Christ and the first witness of His
Resurrection. It was the love of Jesus that made
a hardened tax-collector one of the twelve
apostles and, moreover, one of the four
evangelists. It was the love of Jesus that
transformed Saint Paul from a persecutor of
Christians to the great Apostle of the Gentiles.
How powerful is the love of the Heart of Jesus!
The love of Jesus can do all things, create all
things!
To contemplate the Heart of Jesus is to
contemplate His love, a love that is capable of
transforming our hearts of stone into hearts of
flesh (Ezek. 36, 26). Yes, it is necessary that
we contemplate, with the eyes of our souls, how
far the love of the Heart of Jesus goes for us.
Maybe, as we look with love and piety at the
greatness and the depth of His love, our hearts
will be moved. Maybe, as we contemplate with
love the Pierced Heart of Jesus that has loved
humanity so much, we will ready ourselves to
love Him with all our hearts, and we will seek
with all our strength to be transformed into the
image and likeness of His Heart.
In the Love of the Pierced Hearts,
Mother Adela, SCTJM
Foundress
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