Episode 78: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 24 - Echoes of the Word in History

Pope Francis continues in Chapter 4, paragraphs 102-108, with presenting the ways in which our Spiritual heritage and church traditions have understood God's Love throughout the two millennia of Christendom. How saints and scholars have expressed the all consuming love of God poured out from the wounded side of Christ are the active healing power of Christ given through the Holy Spirit in the graces of the Sacraments.

Prayer

Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embrace my heart.

Fire of the Heart of Jesus, inflame my heart.

Charity of the Heart of Jesus, fill my heart.

Strength of the Heart of Jesus, sustain my heart.

Mercy of the Heart of Jesus, pardon my heart.

Patience of the Heart of Jesus, do not forsake my heart.

Reign of the Heart of Jesus, establish Yourself in my heart.

Wisdom of the Heart of Jesus, teach my heart.

Will of the Heart of Jesus, guide my heart.

Zeal of the Heart of Jesus consume my heart.

Jesus, make our hearts more like your own.

Dilexit Nos - Chapter 4, Paragraphs 102 - 108 - Echoes of the Word in History

Catechism of the Catholic Church - 1114 - 1116 - The Sacraments of Christ

Thomas Merton - Come, My Love

Come, my love

Come, my love,

Pass through my will

As through a window

Shine on my life

As on a meadow

I like the grass to be consumed

By the rays of the sun

On a late summer’s morning

Come, my love,

All through the night

I lay longing

Eagerly to wait

For love’s union

Like dawn’s flower awaits

For the wedding with the sun

Consummated in the light

Your light, my love,

Is stealing my heart

As a secret

I’m left

Like a vanishing form

That leaves no shadows

Exposed naked, alone

Between the heavens and the earth

Lifted high on the cross with the Savior

O life-giving tomb,

Prepared through the night

For dawn’s dying

Like a moon

Like the mansions of heaven

Await the rebirth of a child

New Jerusalem

So come to my life, Light of Heaven

Come, my love,

Pass through my will

As through a window

Shine on my life

As on a meadow

I like the grass to be washed

By the rays of the sun

On the late summer’s morning

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