No longer imaginary, but real! ...

"O Jesus, here present in the holy Eucharist,

Your heart is all aglow with love for me!

You call me, You urge me to come You." - St Ildephonsus

 

 

"Exercise your ordinary imagination, picturing the Savior

to yourself in His sacred humanity as if He were beside you

just as we are wont to think of our friends,

and imagine that we see or hear them at our side.

 

But when the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is there,

then this Presence is no longer imaginary, but most real;

and the sacred species are but a veil from behind

which the present Savior beholds and considers us,

although we cannot see Him as He is."

 

St. Francis de Sales

 

Christ with the Host, Paolo da San Leocadio, 1520

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Day 1

Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Solemnity:  June 16

Jesus, meek and humble of heart

make my heart like unto Thine. 

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for me, 

inflame my heart with love of Thee.