Change of heart

Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me.  You are my help

and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay. - Psalm 40:17

 

 

"Pray that just as Jesus changes the lower earthly nature

of bread and wine into His body and blood

He might change and transform also

the sluggish, coldness and dryness

of our earthly and arid heart ...

 

into the fire, tenderness and agility

of the holy divine affections and dispositions

of His divine and heavenly Heart."

  - From What We Must Do to Assist Worthily

at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (St John Eudes)

 

 

St. John Eudes

France ~ 1601-1680

Priest, gifted preacher and confessor

Encouraged devotions to twin Hearts of Jesus and Mary

 Central theme of his writings: Jesus as the source of holiness,

Mary as the model of the Christian life.

 

 

Dedicated to counsel and defend morally endangered women,

he founded an association of priests (Eudists) and religious -

Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity

(later known as Good Shepherd Sisters)

FEAST DAY - August 19

 

 

“Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make His spirit, His devotion, His affections, His desires and His disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. It is the work which God has given us to do unceasingly.”

St. John Eudes, The Life and Reign of Jesus in Christian Souls