The furnace of the heart of Jesus

 Fifth Sunday of Lent*

*Final Lenten Sunday before Palm Sunday.

 

Has no one condemned you, woman? No one, Lord. Neither shall

I condemn you.  From now on, sin no more. ~ John 8:10-11(Gospel/Communion Antiphon - Today's Liturgy)

 

 

Christ the Redeemer Parish, Houston, Texas USA ~ Rose Window and Crucifix
Glasswork: Ken vonRoenn; Cross image: Wiktor Szostalo ~ Architect: Stephen A. Lucchesi, AIA

Photographer Info: Image provided by: Stephen A. Lucchesi, AIA

 

 

 "Cast yourself into the furnace

of the gentle heart of Jesus.

All your defects and imperfections

will be consumed there."

 

St Paul of the Cross

 

 

 U.S. Marines receive Communion from a Marine chaplain on Iwo Jima.  March 3, 1945

A new day dawns! (Easter Sunday)

CHRIST is RISEN!
Indeed, He is RISEN!

 

 Christ is Risen, and you, O death, are annihilated!
Christ is Risen, and the evil ones are cast down!
Christ is Risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is Risen, and life is liberated!
Christ is Risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead;

for Christ having risen from the dead,

is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

To Him be Glory and Power forever and ever. Amen!

 

(Excerpt - Easter homily, St John Chrysostom)

 

 

 

Jacopa Robusti Tintoretto, The Resurrection of Christ (1565)

 

 

"On the third day the friends of Christ coming

at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and

the stone rolled away.  In varying ways they realized

that new wonder; but even they hardly realized

that the world had died in the night. 

What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation,

with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a

semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden,

in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.”

GK Chesterton, The Everlasting Man