Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

Sacred Heart, 30th June 2025 

When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.”

Saint Robert Bellarmine S.J. Doctor of the Church

Lord, teach us how to love you, keep us close to your Sacred Heart.

Pr 4: 4-6 This was what he used to teach me, ‘Let your heart treasure what I have to say, keep my principles and you will live; 5 acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, never forget her, never deviate from my words. 6 Do not desert her, she will keep you safe; love her, she will watch over you. The Lord is communicating to us in these verses; if we value God's Word in our hearts and live by it, we will live. Our Lord will live in our hearts, and he will govern our thoughts and actions. Never ignore God's counsel or veer from the Holy Spirit's teachings. There is one thing, and it is a mystery: if we work hard for wisdom with Mother Mary, she will assist us in our petitions. We should not abandon her; we should cherish her because she will keep us safe and watch over us day and night. This is what Jesus asks us to accomplish.

 

  Ps 42: 1-2As a deer yearns for running streams, so I yearn for you, my God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God; when shall I go to see the face of God? Our hearts should seek Jesus our Lord; his heart is eager to embrace us. We should have zeal for our Lord. The Psalmist is wailing and pleading with his shattered heart, asking the Lord when he would be able to see the face of God.

Lord, teach us how to love you, keep us close to your Sacred Heart. Lord, let your Mother help us in our prayers and petitions and guard our souls from all kinds of evil intentions.

 

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

Sacred Heart, on 29th June 2025

“Most Scared Heart of Jesus, teach me an entire forgetfulness of myself, since that the only way one can find entrance into You!” St Claude La Colombreie

Lord, let our hearts’ only aim is to fear you, and love You

Ps 86: 11-12 Teach me, Yahweh, your ways, that I may not stray from your loyalty; let my heart’s one aim be to fear your name. 12 I thank you with all my heart, Lord my God, I will glorify your name for ever. Lord, let me not stray from Your loyalty. I keep will my life always loyal to You. My only ambition is listen Your gracious Words Day and night. I will never forget to praise You, glorify You among all the people on earth. If we listen his voice His Word, He will never forsake us. He always looks into our heart whether we are close to Him.

Ps 45: 1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme, I address my poem to the king, my tongue the pen of an expert scribe. When we begin to love God and reflect on His loving and merciful heart, our hearts will flow with many topics for praising Him, and we will praise Him with beautiful hymns, and lifting our hearts and souls to Him.

The Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

 Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus

Feast Sacred Heart of Jesus On 27th June 2025 

Jesus, meek and humble of Heart, make my heart like Yours 

Jesus promise us, if we love him wholeheartedly, The Holy Trinity will come to us and make a home in us

Today is the 350th year of the apparition of Jesus to St Margarett Mary Alacoque revealing the the devotion to Sacred Heart which is ending today on 27th June 2025. Pope Pius IX declared the Feast the Sacred Heart of Jesus as an obligatory feast for the universal church in 1856, to be celebrated on the Friday after the Feast of Corpus Christi.

   John 14:23 (NJB): Jesus replied:  Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a home in him. Jesus makes a promise to all of us: a Trinitarian blessing from above. He adds that if we love him, we will keep his Word, and that when we keep God's Word in our hearts, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and the Heavenly Father will come and stay in us. How we must preserve God's Word in our hearts, with humility and contrition. How can we invite Jesus into our hearts? By loving him and meditating on his Word day and night. Psalm 119:148 (NJB): My eyes are awake before each watch of the night, to ponder your promise. Psalmist here says, he even awake in the watches of the night to ponder God’s Words and His promises. His promise is that he will love us, and when he loves us the Heavenly Father also will love us, and the Holy Trinity will come and abide in our heart. John 19:34 (NJB): one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water. The Eucharist is really the Heart of Jesus broken for us. 

   Let us adore and worship Jesus in the Eucharist. In 2008 in Sokolka, Poland, a consecrated host the priest dropped during Communion was placed in water to dissolve, according to standard practice, and it was locked in a safe in the sacristy. A week later, the sacristan, a religious sister, checked on the host, which she discovered to have a red stain on it. The host was removed from the water and as it dried, the stain ultimately appeared to look more like a wound. It was studied and found to include myocardial, or heart, tissue that was inexplicably interwoven with the bread fibers. 

  ‘O indescribable beauty of God most high! O pure radiance of everlasting light! O life that gives life to all life! O light that illuminates every light, and preserves in its undying splendor the myriad flames that have shone before the throne of your godhead from the dawn of time!’ St Bonaventure(Second Reading of Office Reading for today on the Feast of Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus)

 

Sacred Heart of Jesus

  

Sacred Heart Of Jesus Cathedral Aka Polish Church, Tashkent

The Church is commonly known as the ‘Polish 

Church,’ is a Roman Catholic church in the center of Tashkent, just 

opposite Eco Park.According to the church, Christians have been 

present in the territory of modern-day Uzbekistan since the 3rd century 

due to the exchange of goods and ideas along the Silk Road.

Sacred Heart, 26 June, 2025

 ‘If Jewish High priest carried the names of the twelve tribes of Israel written on his shoulders and on his breast, how much more Christ, our High Priest, carries our names written on His Heart.’ St John of Avila

Ps 27:8 Of you my heart has said, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, Yahweh, I seek; 9 do not turn away from me. We should beg our Lord to reveal his face, and he will. This thirst should originate from the heart by linking it with His merciful Heart. St Therese of the Child Jesus has a specific devotion to the face of Jesus, our Lord. That is why she is also called St Therese of God’s Holy Face. Many years ago, Br. Joemon gave me a Holy Scripture passage of Is. 53 to study and think on during the Lenten season. When I read this, it moved me deeply, and the image of Jesus' bleeding face flooded my heart. Later, while reading a piece from St. Therese of Lisieux's Prayers (chapters 11 and 12), I discovered that she was deeply moved by this particular chapter of Isaiah 53. 

  It was a coincidence for me. I was extremely moved by her devotion for Jesus Christ and her attitude towards His Holy Face, which was so simple and thoughtful. ‘They were the foundation of all her piety’. In her own words “I too, have desired to be without beauty, alone in treading the wine press, unknown to everyone” (Prayers of St Therese of Child Jesus) yes indeed! How desirably St Therese of Child Jesus out of her love towards Jesus to be crushed in the wine press for the love of Christ.

Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

Sacred Heart, 24th June, 2025

‘I desire to do everything in intimate union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.’

Pope St John XXIII

   Ps 32:2 How blessed are those to whom Yahweh imputes no guilt, whose spirit harbors no deceit. How fortunate we are if God discovers no guilt in our hearts. Lord wants such kind of hearts which would be like the heart of Jesus. The evil inclinations and characteristics are contrary to the nature of God's Spirit. Those who have a blameless heart will win favor in God's presence. The Holy Spirit will reveal the Kingdom of God to us, as well as when we are imitating the Sacred Heart ofJesus.

 

Lord, we are piercing Your Heart with our misdeeds and all the evils of this world. Lord, please forgive our sins and purify our hearts!

 

Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

Sacred Heart, 23rd June 2025

Lord, my only desire to be closer to Your Heart, from which flows the mercy and grace 

"It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful"…

 Pope Pius XII

   Ps 28: 7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield, in him my heart trusts. I have been helped; my body has recovered its vigour; with all my heart I thank him. Jesus is encouraging us to trust in him and keep our hearts fixed on his Sacred Heart. When we get benefits from the Lord, remember to thank him for his kind Heart, which provides us with the vitality and strength that the Psalmist has experienced. Every day, we should read and pray through several Psalms to draw closer to God. Our Lord is the shield that protects us from the evil one's flaming arrows. Be submit to Him and become closer to His Merciful Heart.

 

Lord, let us be closer to your Sacred Heart, from which flows the Living Water.

 

Feast of Corpus Christi

 

On Sunday 22nd June 2025 

  Many years ago, Br. Joemon while giving a talk about the Eucharist he said: ‘Many Christian denominations still not believe in the mystery of the transubstantiation of the bread into Body and wine into Blood of Jesus Christ and for us Catholics this is essence of our worship.’ Jesus himself says about this act of consecration to be done on his remembrance of establishing the New Covenant. ‘Then he broke the bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me. He did the same with the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the New Covenant in my blood poured out for you. ‘1Cr 11: 26 He is the Lamb of God, the true sacrifice and the fullness of all other sacrifices. There is no other sacrifice greater than our Lord’s own sacrifice on the Cross in Calvary and it is very important as Br Joemon explained.

  No one, but our Lord Jesus Christ, can make such an offering to God our Father in order to save us, all of humanity. He is God's only Son, so His contribution is the most precious and significant. God made him the only sacrifice for the salvation of all humanity. That is why it is an everlasting sacrifice, and it will endure forever, Amen! Those who ignore this mystery are heretics, enemies of Jesus and his kingdom.. 1 John 2:22 (NJB): Who is the liar, if not one who claims that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the Antichrist, who denies both the Father and the Son. They are the Antichrists. They doubted Jesus and were thinking how they will eat the flesh of a man and drink his blood. It is impossible to understand as if we think in human way, and scrutinise these heavenly things with our own intelligence. Jesus said to them with great pain in his heart: ‘No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day.’ (Jon. 6:44)We cannot come closer to Jesus unless Heavenly Father allows us to approach him. When we come to know Jesus and approach him wholeheartedly, then we will realise this; that he is the gift of God. Jesus again told them, ‘He went on, ‘This is why I told you that no one could come to me except by the gift of the Father.’ Jon. 6: 65. Again Jesus said to them: ‘I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ (Jon.6: 48-51)Death will not approach us if we eat His Body and drink His Blood with genuine reverence and purity. When the priest consecrates the bread and wine, it is done in a celestial manner and according to the plan of celestial Father. It is happening through the prayer that Jesus proclaimed to the Heavenly Father. Jesus said: ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me. Then he said: ‘This cup is the New Covenant in my blood poured out for you. (which our Lord proclaimed while establishing the Eucharist). Jesus told unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood ……. John 6:53–56 (NJB): 53 Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise that person up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in that person. Jesus is saying to all of us to eat his flesh and blood to live in him and he will live in us. So the Holy Mass is the real sacrifice the enactment of the sacrifice on the Cross on Calvary. Then whatever Jesus has said is fulfilled and it is not a mere meal but the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

Lord, You brought us the food from heaven

Your Body and Blood for our salvation

Lord, am unworthy to receive the Holy Eucharist

But Your immense mercy and love, enable me to have it.

Oh, Most Holy Name to be honoured

Jesus, my Lord, live in the holy Tabernacle

Maketh yourself the humblest bread

To share your eternal glory with us

Oh Lord, sanctify my body and soul

Oh Lord, of our fathers’, who loved you endlessly

Purify my heart and open my eyes

To see your glory till the end of my days

Lord, how much I was longing for You

To be in your House

To receive Your Heavenly Meal

And I am pleased to have You day after day

Lord, you are the eternal grace and salvation

May you fill my heart, with your sublime love?

Oh, gentle master of my soul

I plead to you, my Lord, lighten my burden.

Lord, you poured all the blessings on your people

To lead them and make them the rulers of the world

Lord, wash me with your precious Blood

Sanctify me, with hyssop till...I am clean

Lord, let my words always to praise you

All my gestures always to praise you

Lord, let all my wishes to praise you

Let all creatures of the seas, lands and sky praise you

Lord, You embrace me with Your love

And come into my flesh, immerse Your Body into me

Lord, let your Blood come into my blood

And make me one with You in flesh and blood

Lord, my hearts’ only desire is to praise you

Lord, I thank you for everything, You have done for me

Let my happiness; always to be with you

Lord, give me your love and grace to abide in you

Lord, what offering I can bring to you, but only my sins,
I can only give what you have given me.
Lord, you offered your Body and Blood
As a sacrifice to Heavenly Father for the salvation of all of us

Melchizedek brought the gift of Bread and Wine
To see Abraham and bless him.
Melchizedek praised and thank God
For helping Abraham to win over his enemies.

Your death on the Cross in Calvery
Brought the salvation for all humanity.
You fulfilled the consecration of Eucharist
By sacrificing your own Body and Blood.

Lord, how divine the mystery of Eucharist
Is beyond our knowledge and imagination!
But you revealed it to us by your love and grace.
You have written these mysteries in our heart.

Lord, once I was dead and didn't know you.
But by your mercy and grace you revealed to me  that you are alive in the Eucharist.
Lord, You came down to meet me in the form of the Living Bread.
I was trembling and crying when I saw your blood-stained face in the living Bread.

Lord, how can I thank You in words
For this most wonderful gift of love you have given me!
How blessed are those who know this truth,
How blessed are those who eat Your Body and drink your Blood,
In a worthy manner to gain Eternal Life.
Oh most Holy Sacrament of the Alter, Oh Jesus we praise you and adore you, Ame