Today I’m really happy with you. You have remained close to my Heart.
Blue Book #3a
Why, then, do I feel hopeful? I feel hopeful because the Lord has plowed a field, harrowed, and seeded it. I feel hopeful because green shoots of prayer are rising from the hearts of people every-where, not only in those dedicated to religious life, but in men and women of all vocations. People are praying in their hearts, and they are taking time to go to quiet places to reflect. They are being drawn inwardly toward him who poured himself out in the service of others.
Grace in Every Season (January 15)
We are familiar with the images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and any devout Catholic knows that they are truly united. In todays Gospel in the Latin rite we hear the words “quodcumque dixerit vobis facite” … do whatever He tells you. Mary’s command to us is never separate from her Son’s Will.
What we may not be living out in full awareness, is our place in this Union of Hearts.
Yet these messages today are so full of hope. Yesterday we were asked to stop focusing on the all the crazy making around us that is taking place via social media, and there is a very good reason for that. We are being called deeper into the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and this requires ‘going to a quiet place to reflect’.
This ‘quiet place’ isn’t necessarily outside of our current environments … although it could be… but it is actually possible anywhere, even the busiest mall … it begins with an interior change… metanoia. Where we are then pulled in closer and closer to Him, to the point where it is no longer us living, but Him living through us.
In the video below we see how a union of hearts is a union of Will. ❤️🙏