Sacred Heart of Jesus! Yea!

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Yes, this is my favorite Feast Day/Solemnity of the year. The Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love the very name of the day. I love the fact that Jesus resurrected body ascended into heaven with his beating heart still in his chest, and that at this very moment he stands before God in Heaven with his human heart still beating as he prays for us.

We don't think much about the body of Jesus after the resurrection. It says that he still bore the wounds of the cross, and that he took Thomas hand and put it into his side where the spear pierced him. We are not told that he was a ghost, or that he was a zombie of some sort, or just a 'holograph' (which is heresy anyway), we are to believe that his human body that did die, rose again, and that his heart was indeed beating in his chest when he was assumed into heaven.

What more can we ask for an explanation than that? Most of the world doesn't understand the idea of the Sacred Heart at all. Admittedly, I did not until a voice told me "look into my heart of infinite compassion." Well, then I started thinking about it. Praying about it. Eventually, I prayed to it. Not to the heart, silly, but to the Savior whose Heart it is. Now I don't go in much for promises made in Jesus name. However, I do believe in the compassion of that Heart which is indeed Sacred. So the ten or however many promises made in his name, mean very little to me. What matters is that the Heart is full of compassion and love. Funny isn't it, that's the same thing St. Faustina said the Divine Mercy was telling us.

Over and over again we are told by the mystics that Jesus and his heart are full of love and compassion for us. The only catch? Believe in Him, obey Him, pray to Him, be His servant. Is that so much to ask?