The Theology of the Sacred Heart, I Want More Children But I’m Afraid of Losing Myself, and My Boyfriend Wonders If He Can Lead a Wife Older Than Him | ACW405

Well, and now I have a question for you from a patron.

Let's do it.

This is from a patron named Archie.

Hi, Archie.

Archie, thank you for your support.

Really blessed by your belief in what we're doing, and stay tuned, Archie, for all these new exciting things happening with our patron community.

Hmm.

Archie says, "Thank you for all you are and do.

My mom is going to design the glass windows of a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart."

Wow.

"Can you explain the theology of the Sacred Heart of Jesus?"

Ah.

Well, it could be a doctoral dissertation, Archie, which I don't have time to deliver here in this forum, but I can give you some basic outlines of the theology of the Sacred Heart, which is near and dear to me.

And anybody who really knows the, the theology behind it and the spirituality around the Sacred Heart, you will find it very endearing as well.

It's really about the incarnation of love.

That's what Christianity is.

Uh, love is a spiritual reality because God is pure spirit and God is love.

But the miracle, the mystery, the astounding proposal of Christianity is that that love has been manifest, that love has taken embodied form, and that eternal divine mystery of the infinite explosion of blissful, ecstatic, life-giving love that is God, that same love, that same infinite, ecstatic, blissful, life-giving reality-

Mm

... has a beating heart, has a beating human heart.

The divine mystery of love, life-giving love, ecstatic love, communal love, the, the love for which we are all made, if we could enter into our own hearts and discover at the very base of our inmost being the yearning that we all know and feel to love and be loved, we would discover that which in our hearts corresponds perfectly like two puzzle pieces to the mystery of the Sacred Heart.

The mystery of the Sacred Heart, I'll say it again, is the manifesting in f- the flesh, in a beating human heart of the divine love that brought the universe and every human being into existence.

The love behind everything, the love that is the Big Bang, the love that is our creation and our redemption-

Hmm

... has a heart, a beating human heart, and that heart, to show its love, to express, think of that word express, to press out, express, so that it could be manifested, so that it can reach from heaven into our hearts, that human heart was pierced, pierced by a sword so that the love within it could be poured out, poured out for all of humanity.