Tell your heart to beat again (Background)
I’ve posted this song for the last on a Music Monday. Today I came across a video where the artist who sings it, Danny Gokey, tells the story surrounding the inspiration for the song…
Tag: Heart
The will to love
Love is not sensible piety. Never forget this distinction. [Love] is a disposition of the soul, of the heart, and, above all, of the will.
– Fr. Jean C. J. d’Elbee
(Thanks to Alanna for this one)
Desert Fathers: Guarding the wellspring
A brother said to Sisois, “I want to guard my heart.”
He said to him, “How can we guard the heart if our tongue leaves the door of the fortress open?”
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V
The Human Heart
Today is Valentine’s Day, a day on which we celebrate the life of a 3rd Century Roman Saint, as well as trying to stave off the tremendous societal pressure to be romantic and lovey dovey đŸ˜‰
“The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour; it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side. That missing part may very well symbolize a piece that a spear tore out of the Universal Heart of Humanity on the Cross, but it probably symbolizes something more.
It may very well mean that when God created each human heart, He kept a small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world of time, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be really happy, that it could never be really wholly in love, that it could never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ in an eternal Easter…” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen
(Thanks to Alexandra for this one)
Wise Words on Wednesday: Intrinsic Desires
“Haven’t you ever wondered, if only for a moment, why life comes nowhere close to the desires that are written in your heart? Where is the beauty, intimacy and adventure? Why can’t we make these things last?”
– John Eldredge, Epic, Page 59
Wise Words on Wednesday: Heart Blueprint
“One may ask if each of us does not really carry in his or her own heart a blueprint of the one that he or she loves. This blueprint is made by our reading, our prayers, our experiences, our hopes, our ideals, by our mother and father. Then suddenly, the ideal becomes concretized and realized in a person, and we say, ‘This is it!'”
– Fulton Sheen
Sunday Lectionary: Remain In Me
Continuing my attempts to produce these Lectionary Notes in under four hours…
Fifth Sunday of Easter: 6th May, 2012
The Readings this week focus around life in Christ.
We begin with an account of St. Paul’s failed attempts in Jerusalem to commune with Christ’s Body, the Church. Strangely enough, it turns out that people tend to be a bit stand-offish if you’ve previously tried to kill them! In our Gospel Reading, Jesus teaches his disciples using the metaphor of the vine, showing us that union with Him is essential if we are to live. He gives us a warning too, that if we do not produce fruit, we will be cut off from Him and deprived of His Divine life. St. John restates this sentiment in the Second Reading, exhorting his readers to “love not in word…but in deed”.Â
Let us come to Mass this week thirsty for the grace of Christ which is communicated through His Church. Let us drink deeply, returning to the world refreshed, ready to share the life of Christ and to bear fruit which will last.
Through Him, and with Him, and in Him…