resplendent than the sun, and diffusing rays of light all around; and he gave me to understand that it was from this divine Heart all those graces flowed, which God incessantly poured on men.”
Behold then, the inexhaustible fountain of waters springing up into everlasting life. What are the necessities of your soul? What do you want now, and what do you really want for most? “ Ask and you shall receive.” Ask of the Sacred Heart. Seek there, and you shall find more than you anticipated.
THOUGHTS ON THE SACRED HEART,
WHICH MAY BE USED AS MATTER FOR MEDITATIONS.
I.
THE features which mark his boundless love are thus described in the Canticles: “ Behold he standeth behind our wall , and clothes himself with his sacred humanity. He renders himself visible through his wounds and bleeding side, looking through these apertures as through the windows and through the lattices .” We may consider Divine Love residing in the Heart of our Redeemer as a sovereign seated on his throne. Through his wounded side it beholds the hearts of the children of men, never losing sight of them. As those who look through a lattice see without being seen, so the love of this Divine Heart, which may be called the Heart of Divine Love, being in reality its centre, incessantly considers all that passes in ours. — St. Francis of Sales.
ASPIRATION.
One thing have I asked of our Lord, that will I seek: to dwell for ever in his Sacred Heart.
