How can we say we do not know the heart of the Lord our God? When all barriers have been taken down through the life, death and resurrection of God’s only begotten Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Through our baptism we have been consecrated to the Lord our God and are intimately One with Him, He dwells in our hearts just as we dwell in His. Our once restless hearts now rest in Him and we have hope of eternal life with Him.
And again for love of us, His laws are written on hearts. By living an ordered life according to His Will for us, we are beacons of His glory. We are His light in the world shining brightly before all, so that they may see our good works and give glory to our Heavenly Father.
To Jesus’ Heart, all burning
with fervent love for men,
my heart with fondest yearning
shall rise its joyful strain.
While ages course along,
blest be with loudest song
the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by ev’ry heart and tongue.
O Heart, for men on fire
with love no man can speak,
my yet untold desire
God gives me for thy sake.
Too true, I have forsaken
thy love for wilful sin;
yet now let me be taken
back by thy grace again.
As thou art meek and lowly,
and ever pure of heart,
so may my heart be wholly
of thine the counterpart.
When life is flying,
and earth’s false glare is done:
still, Sacred Heart, in dying,
I’ll say I’m all thine own.
(TO JESUS’ HEART, ALL BURNING (HYMN)
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us…
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First reading
Deuteronomy 7:6-11 ·
The Lord set his heart on you and chose you
Moses said to the people: ‘You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God; it is you that the Lord our God has chosen to be his very own people out of all the peoples on the earth.
‘If the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, it was not because you outnumbered other peoples: you were the least of all peoples. It was for love of you and to keep the oath he swore to your fathers that the Lord brought you out with his mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know then that the Lord your God is God indeed, the faithful God who is true to his covenant and his graciousness for a thousand generations towards those who love him and keep his commandments, but who punishes in their own persons those that hate him. He is not slow to destroy the man who hates him; he makes him work out his punishment in person. You are therefore to keep and observe the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I lay down for you today.’
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Second reading
1 John 4:7-16 ·
Let us love one another, since love comes from God
My dear people,
let us love one another
since love comes from God
and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Anyone who fails to love can never have known God,
because God is love.
God’s love for us was revealed
when God sent into the world his only Son
so that we could have life through him;
this is the love I mean:
not our love for God,
but God’s love for us when he sent his Son
to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away.
My dear people,
since God has loved us so much,
we too should love one another.
No one has ever seen God;
but as long as we love one another
God will live in us
and his love will be complete in us.
We can know that we are living in him
and he is living in us
because he lets us share his Spirit.
We ourselves saw and we testify
that the Father sent his Son
as saviour of the world.
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God lives in him, and he in God.
We ourselves have known and put our faith in
God’s love towards ourselves.
God is love
and anyone who lives in love lives in God,
and God lives in him.
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Gospel
Matthew 11:25-30
You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’
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