Opening Prayer
Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just;
For praise is fitting for loyal hearts
The Lord loves justice and right
And fills the earth with his love.
Reflection:
The heart of Jesus is…
an ocean of all blessings and into it the poor should submerge all their needs.
an ocean of joy in which all of us can immerse our sorrows.
an ocean of humility to counteract our pride,
an ocean of compassion for the sinner, and
an ocean of love to meet our every need. From a letter of St Margaret Mary
Do I experience the heart of Jesus as an ocean of blessings, joy, humility, compassion, and love?
Recall occasions when you have had these experiences. Thank Jesus and adore.
Reading
In 1958 Thomas Merton, a Trappers Monk and a famous Mystic had a religious experience in a crowded shopping area in his hometown of Lewisville, Kentucky. Looking at the people walking around this is what he wrote “It was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts… the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are.”
Pope Benedict XVI once said that our bodies are the visible expressions of the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is, in other words, a spark of the Divine, something of God in all of us.
Just as the timeless love of God overflowed into creation, so in a precise moment of human time the love of God came down to earth and made its home in the womb of Mary who gave birth to the child of Jesus.
Overtime, the child Jesus grew in awareness of that inner spark of the Divine, of the person that he was in God’s eyes. And this awareness was then put into words and actions that expressed most completely the Divine Heart of God. Indeed, it is Jesus who shows us time and time again in the gospels, that God has a heart, in the way he speaks to people, treats them, console them and forgives them. Like Thomas Merton, Jesus clearly saw the inner beauty of all with whom he engaged and treated them accordingly. Derek Laverty, SSCC.
Pause for Reflection
Prayer : Psalm 146
My soul, give praise to the Lord;
I will praise the Lord all my days,
I will sing praise to God while I live.
They are happy who are helped by Jacob’s God,
Whose hope is in the Lord their God,
Who alone made heaven and earth,
The seas and all they contain.
It is he who keeps faith foe ever,
Who is just to those who are oppressed.
It is he who gives bread to the hungry,
The Lord, who sets prisoners free
The Lord who gives sight to the blind,
Who raises those who are bowed down,
The Lord, who protects the stranger,
and sustains the widow and the orphan.
It is the Lord who loves the just
But brings to ruin the path of the wicked.
The Lord who reigns for ever
Zion’s God, from age to age.
Time for Adoration
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Prayer for the feast of the Commemoration of all the Saints
Father, all powerful and ever-living God,
We rejoice in the holy men and women
Of every time and place.
May their prayers bring us your forgiveness and love.
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