Sacred Heart

The Heart of Christ

HEART IN HEBREW

Ordination Experience (Sick!)

Parts of the mass

Songs by consecrated, LC, priests, youth group

Gathering of people from all over

Penitential Rite emotions

Tugged at my heart and I lost it

Ugly cry

Laying down, opening of heaven

My heart overflowed

IT WAS WICKED! SICK!

Grew up in California > context of the word

Out of this world, unbelievable

Understanding the term as it was used in context

The Word HEART

“LEVav or LEV”

Many cultures and different concepts and understanding of the “heart”

Jewish culture is most important because it was Christ, a Jew who’s heart was pierced where blood and water poured out

This concept was important to them

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5

Ignorant of the brain

All human internal activities bore from the heart

Life, mind, emotions, judgments, conscience, as well the muscle that give life, the blood

Nabal’s heart died (1 Sam 25: 37) within him and left him as a stone

1 Ki 3:12: Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind

The word “mind” to our translation was heart to them

God speaks in images we can grasps

Speak vietnamese: “But why must we be here today?

You don’t understand? My communication is useless

The Jews understood the heart as the mind, machine, life source that animates our existence.

On the cross God reveals to us the heart of Christ (literally)

It is opened up for us to see

What’s inside? Water and blood

A miracle right? Heart is made for blood only no?

Blood = redemption: Water=purifying (baptism), new life

Miracle it may be but there is also the possibility of a medical explanation

Condition: Pericardial Effusion

Jesus experiencing extreme condition

Suffocation from hanging on the cross

Carbon dioxide buildup from the lack of oxygen

Heart responds by instinctive desire to breathe, force to beat faster

Lack of oxygen while circulating causes damage to tissues and capillaries

Capillaries begin leaking watery fluid from the blood into the tissues

Builds a coat of water around the heart

Slow suffocation, not just by breathing but every cell in his body

If Christ is the Word of God then what is he trying to communicate?

In spite of all that suffering, The Word made flesh SPOKE

Forgive them, for they know not

Today, you will be with me in paradise

Behold, your mother

Into your hands, I commend my spirit

In spite of pain and suffering, Christ heart spoke love

This is the SON OF GOD!

Jesus’ bursted heart gave life to the church

Lesson: Give your whole self

The Church was born

You’ve all sacrificed and given your own blood and sweat

This vocation is yours, this and all those (the priests and consecrated) vocations

It bore from our sacrifices and it needs continued watering to survive.

The water of sacrifice and love.

God, through this beautiful celebration of the heart of Christ grants us a gift

A plenary indulgence

* An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions

Be Catholic, received communion days before or after (preferebly the same day), be in the state of grace through sacramental confession, have the interior disposition to detach from sin and to pray for the intentions of the Pope (suggested Our Father and Hail Mary)

Today, Sacred heart, we can receive this gift by including the prayer of Reparation after communion.

Can be applied for yourself for a deceased soul only.

Let us prepare our hearts as we continue this celebration and for the reception of this gift.