{"id":2824,"date":"2007-06-08T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/06\/cor-jesu-verbo-dei-substantial\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T07:36:18","slug":"cor-jesu-verbo-dei-substantial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/06\/cor-jesu-verbo-dei-substantial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cor Jesu, Verbo Dei substantialiter unitum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BeautifulSacredHeart.jpg\"<\/a>
\nHeart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God, have mercy on us<\/strong>
\nFrom all eternity, God desired to love man divinely with a human heart, and so, “when the time had fully come” (Gal 4:4), “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14). In the breast of the Word Made Flesh there beats a human Heart that is nothing less than the Heart of God. The Divine Person of the Word expresses His filial love for the Father and His redeeming love for man through this Sacred Heart.
\nBehold this Heart<\/strong>
\nThe Heart of the Word, formed by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin’s womb, pierced by the soldier’s lance on Calvary, touched by the Apostle Thomas after the resurrection, and concealed in the adorable mystery of the Eucharist, is the abiding symbol of the infinite love with which the Son loves the Father and loves every man. Thus did Jesus say to Saint Margaret Mary in the “Great Revelation” that occurred during the Octave of Corpus Christi<\/em> in June 1675: “Behold this Heart which has so loved men.” “In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the expiation for our sins”(1 Jn 4:10).
\nLove, Mercy, and Meekness<\/strong>
\nTo behold<\/em> is to look upon, to contemplate, and to consider. The desire of Our Lord is that we should look upon His Heart, fulfilling in every generation the words of the prophet Zechariah repeated by Saint John: “They shall look on him whom they have pierced” (Jn 19:37; Zech 12:1). One who looks upon the Heart of Christ discovers the redeeming love of the Heart of God. One who contemplates the Heart of Christ is drawn into the infinite mercy of the Heart of God. One who considers the Heart of Christ learns the meekness and humility of the Heart of God.
\nTo Know and Believe in the Love God Has For Us<\/strong>
\nThe value of images of the Sacred Heart derives from this: that the pierced Heart of Jesus sets before our eyes the whole mystery of the merciful love of God, softens our resistances to that love, and invites us to grown in confident surrender to it. One understands just why Our Lord said to Saint Margaret Mary: “I will bless those places wherein the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated.”
\nEnthronement of the Sacred Heart <\/strong>
\n“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me” (Ap 3:20). The enthronement <\/a>of an image of the Sacred Heart in one’s home is a way of opening family life to the merciful love of Christ. Those who introduce an image of the Sacred Heart into their homes express their desire to say with the Apostle John, “So do we know and believe the love God has for us” (1 Jn 4:16). God who inspires that desire will also fulfill it.
\nPrayer<\/strong>
\nMost Sacred Heart of Jesus,
\nI adore Thee beating in the breast of the Word Made Flesh.
\nI adore Thee, moved with Divine Compassion
\nat the sight of the multitude like sheep without a shepherd.
\nI adore Thee burning to set the world ablaze
\nwith the fire of Thy Godhead.
\nI adore Thee desiring with a great desire
\nto feed us with Thyself.
\nI adore Thee broken with sorrow
\nand lifted to the Father in Gethsemani.
\nI adore Thee opened for me by the thrust of the soldier’s lance.
\nI adore Thee in the stillness of the tomb.
\nI adore Thee in the glory of Thy resurrection.
\nI adore Thee with the Apostle Thomas, saying,
\n“O Heart of my Lord and Heart of my God!”
\nI adore Thee in the majesty of Thy ascension.
\nI adore Thee present in the tabernacles of the world.
\nI adore Thee revealed in glory at the end of time
\nfor the glory of Thy Father
\nand for the joy of all Thy Saints.
\nAmen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God, have mercy on us From all eternity, God desired to love man divinely with a human heart, and so, “when the time had fully come” (Gal 4:4), “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14). In the breast <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sacred-heart-of-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Jy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}