My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may he, the Lord, give you peace. We join together for our Eucharistic celebration, and a lot of us are unaware that every time we receive Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist, he is giving us his entire self, his entire being, that is his body, blood, soul, and divinity. But to understand the magnitude of this gift, our Lord in many Eucharistic miracles, has allowed for the visible host to exteriorly transform into flesh that you would only find in the heart of a man. It is endocardium.
Today, the first Friday of the month, we are reminded to place our trust in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And in the first reading from Saint Paul's letter to the Colossians, he reminds us that "...all things were created through Christ and for Christ – that He holds all things together."
The Sacred Heart devotion is about putting Christ at the very center of our lives so that when we do that the entirety of our lives finds a grounding, a solid rock upon which we can continue to build. We continue to build a house that cannot be torn down by the storms of life. Why? Because the life of that house, the energy that holds that house together, is the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
And for this reason, my brothers and sisters, it is such a beautiful devotion to have the Sacred Heart enthroned in your families (in your homes). I have done this a number of times in my ministry, where I've been invited as a priest to go into the house and pray the enthronement prayer, where the family finds a fitting and dignified place for the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who will remain in the house as he remains in every tabernacle around the world – always there, always to be found, ready to help us, ready to heal us, and most of all, ready to love us because his love for us is infinite. It's there for the taking. He waits for us every day in the tabernacles of the world, and an enthroned image of that Sacred Heart in your home draws down upon your family innumerable blessings and protects it from evil.
My brothers and sisters, consider today to enthrone the Sacred Heart of Jesus in your homes and to, above all, to make him the central focus of your own heart, because when you love him above all else, that is when heaven begins, even here and now, in this world, as we journey to the One who has loved us from all eternity.
In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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