The Love is no Love

The One Who Goes Will Return

Before ascending to Heaven, our Lord sent His apostles to offer forgiveness. He was taken up into the clouds, watched by just a few of His followers.

But as He went, so He will return — not hidden, but in glory. Not seen by a few, but by all. Not to offer pardon, but to judge the world.

He will come to judge the living and the dead.

He Exhausts Every Means

Yet before judging, He exhausts all means to save us, Before His final coming, the Lord does everything possible to save us. Around 350 years ago, at a time when love for God was growing cold in many hearts, He appeared to a nun — St. Margaret Mary Alacoque — and showed her His heart.

It was surrounded by flames, symbolizing His burning love for us. But it was also crowned with thorns, showing how we answer that love — with coldness, rejection, and indifference.

To feel the pain of this love, think of your own pain.

Think of when you love someone, and your love is not returned. Maybe it’s a son or daughter, a husband or wife, who doesn't respond to your love. If your love, though imperfect, causes you such pain...

Imagine the pain of Jesus, whose love is infinite and perfect.

He Himself explained this pain:

“Behold this Heart which has so loved men that It has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love. And in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude — by their irreverence, sacrilege, coldness, and contempt — especially in this Sacrament of Love.”

This is not an accusation.

It’s the complaint of love — the cry of a heart that suffers because it loves so much and receives so little.

The Cry of Love

Let’s reflect on this cry of love.

To whom is it directed?

To Jesus, and especially to His presence in the Eucharist — the Sacrament of Love.

Let us remember Blessed Carlo Acutis, the young boy who spent three years compiling Eucharistic miracles from around the world. Scientists who studied the samples from these miracles found the same blood type, the same heart tissue, and signs that the tissue was from a heart under great stress — a suffering, beating heart.

These miracles confirm what the Lord revealed:

His Sacred Heart is woundedin the Eucharist by our offenses. What are these offenses?

Irreverence: Receiving the Eucharist carelessly, without attention or respect.

Sacrilege: Receiving Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin. In many places, people are wrongly taught that confession is not necessary.

Coldness: Treating Communion like a routine — no preparation, no wonder. This breaks the heart of Jesus... and mine, too.

Contempt: Living as if Jesus were not necessary, ignoring Him completely.

This is the cry of the Love that is not loved.

How the Angel Taught Love

Over 100 years ago, Heaven opened again. An angel appeared to the three children of Fatimaand taught them how to love the Eucharist — and how that love is often rejected.

The angel appeared with a chalice, and above it, a Host from which drops of blood fell into the chalice. He left the Host and chalice suspended in the air, fell prostrate on the ground, and prayed:

“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference with which He is offended. And by the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”

Heaven itself shows us how to adore.

This Is the Month of Love

So, dear brothers and sisters, do not be distracted by the world.

This is the Month of the Sacred Heart — the month of true Divine Love.

Today, many voices try to replace it with celebrations of world and lust love alone. But this is not truth.

As Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto said:

“We should all honour the Sacred Heart in every home, parish, school, convent, hospital, and Catholic institution.

Symbols are important because they carry meaning and point to something greater. Our Catholic symbols help deepen our faith, guide our prayer, and shape the lives we live. They are like bridges connecting the material and spiritual worlds and help reveal Gospel truths.

We need to make sure that the symbols we use are consistent with our Catholic faith and not borrowed from ideological fora, promoted by lobby groups and endorsed by political movements.

We ought to honour and respect our traditions and not compromise the integrity of the faith by using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation.

 We do good to use our own symbols to tell our own story without resorting to trendy, misguided and inadequate symbols that do not represent us as Catholics but rather contribute to confusion, distortions and ambiguities about what the Catholic faith truly teaches regarding the human person, human nature, and natural moral law.

Consecrate Your Heart

So today, let us consecrate ourselves, our families, and this parish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Let His love rekindle our love.

Let our hearts be shaped and softened by His Divine Heart.

And when you feel tired, frustrated, or lost — remember this simple prayer:

“Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Yours.”