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Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Homily for Wednesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
While the heart is a powerful traditional symbol for love, Jesus takes a look at what else can lie hidden in the human heart. It can be the place of evil intentions; it can be damaging and destructive of others. The heart is the person’s inner core and we know that our hearts can hold both light and darkness; our hearts can be reservoirs for good and for evil.
One of the great traditional images of our faith has been the Sacred Heart. This image declares that, at God’s inner core, there is a totally selfless love, a love revealed fully in the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus. This greatest love is immeasurably creative and life-giving.
Our own hearts should, in some sense, reflect the Sacred Heart, with an inner core connected to God’s inner core. This vision of our potential is echoed in a simple prayer that many of us will have learned at some point in our lives: “Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.”+
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