THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Year A

Readings

First Reading
Dt 7:6–11

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 103:1–2, 3–4, 6–7, 8, 10

Second Reading
1 Jn 4:7–16

Gospel
Mt 11:25–30

Meditation on Today's Readings

“Everything God wanted to tell us about himself and about his love he placed in the Heart of Jesus. We find ourselves before an inscrutable mystery. In Jesus' Heart we read the eternal divine plan of the world's salvation. It is a plan of love.

“Christ loves us and reveals his Heart to us as the fount of life and holiness, the source of our redemption.. Jesus is the source; from him divine life in us finds its beginning. To have this life, we need only approach him and remain in him. And what is this life if not the beginning of human holiness, the holiness which is in God and which we can reach with the help of grace?”—(Pope John Paul II).

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