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This Chicago west side hospital closed due to taking kickbacks for referring medicare and medicaid patients to Sacred Heart Hospital. They were also making up fake and ghost patients that received care but did not. The FBI and Chicago police raided the hospital records and sadly it was shut down. The hospital has been abandoned since 2013.
This Chicago west side hospital closed due to taking kickbacks for referring medicare and medicaid patients to Sacred Heart Hospital. They were also making up fake and ghost patients that received care but did not. The FBI and Chicago police raided the hospital records and sadly it was shut down. The hospital has been abandoned since 2013.
J. R. R. Tolkein wrote: "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. By the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste—or foretaste—of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man’s heart desires."
Today, the first Friday of the month, is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and we go to Confession, and receive Holy Communion for Christ, in giving us his Heart in the Eucharist, wills to give us his forgiveness and a participation in his divine life, "which every man's heart desires."
Statue from St Francis Xavier church in New York City.
"My Heart is so full of love for men that It can no longer contain the flames of Its burning love. I must discover to men the treasures of My Heart and save them from perdition."
Stained glass window from St Casimir's church in Baltimore, MD.
"Remember how generous the Lord Jesus was: he was rich, but he became poor for your sake, to make you rich out of his poverty."
– 2 Cor 8:9.
Painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the church of the Holy Family in Mexico City. June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
"O Lord God, in the simplicity of my heart I have joyfully offered thee all things: and I have seen with great joy thy people offer thee their gifts. God of Israel, keep this will of their heart, alleluia."
– cf 1 Chronicles 29:17.
This is the Offertory verse in the Dominican rite for the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
This statue is in Westminster Cathedral, London.
June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The inscription around this unusual statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is from John 15:13: "There is no greater love than to give oneself for one's friend".
This statue is in the Dominican church of L'Annonciation in Paris.
"Go forth ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart. My heart has uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king."
– Dominican rite Introit for the feast of the Sacred Heart.
This mosaic of Christ revealing his Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary Alacoque is in the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Paris, which is depicted in this mosaic.
[Sorry for the interruption in uploads yesterday, we were at Courchevel for two days as we needed to do some work in the apartment. Lots of snow at the resort, at last I got to put my 4WD and Nokian winter tires to good use!]
The Romanesque basilica of the Sacred Heart in the small town of Paray-le-Monial in southern Burgundy, is a Mediæval masterpiece known throughout the world.
Paray was a priory of the abbey of Cluny, and after a first church was built here and consecrated in 977, the one we see today was erected around 1050 and designed probably by Saint Hugo himself, abbot of Cluny.
It looks like a reduced, simplified copy of the gigantic church of Cluny, the largest church in Christendom ever until Saint Peter of Rome was rebuilt in the 16th century. That church, dubbed “Cluny III”, was mostly destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century, which is also why Paray is a very interesting testimony, architecturally speaking.
The choir and the apse.
February 24, 2022 will be remembered in History as the sad and shameful day on which dictator Putin launched his attack on free and democratic Ukraine. To see something like this happening at the gates of Europe in the 21st century is almost unbelievable and shows us that barbaric times and practices will decidedly go on for as long as the human species exists, in spite of our all Olympic Games and United Nations and modern means of communication between world leaders...
This is also the day on which we finish our visit of the Romanesque basilica of the Sacred Heart in the small town of Paray-le-Monial in southern Burgundy, is a Mediæval masterpiece known throughout the world.
Paray was a priory of the abbey of Cluny, and after a first church was built here and consecrated in 977, the one we see today was erected around 1050 and designed probably by Saint Hugo himself, abbot of Cluny.
It looks like a reduced, simplified copy of the gigantic church of Cluny, the largest church in Christendom ever until Saint Peter of Rome was rebuilt in the 16th century. That church, dubbed “Cluny III”, was mostly destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century, which is also why Paray is a very interesting testimony, architecturally speaking.
The western massif with the two towers over the narthex. Here you canc clearly see that it was built after completion of the nave.
Lectio coram (final oral exam) today, 11th May 2017.
Entrusting all to Our Blessed Mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe:
"We fly to thy protection, O holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin."
This painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe holding St Juan Diego is in the church of the Sacred Heart in Puebla.
"Almighty and merciful God,
who made the Priest Saint John Vianney
wonderful in his pastoral zeal,
grant, we pray,
that through his intercession and example
we may in charity win brothers and sisters for Christ
and attain with them eternal glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever." Amen.
– Collect for the feast of St John Vianney, which is today (4 Aug)
Stained glass window from Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
"Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a more warm-hearted and ardent devotion towards Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, its principal motive being the extreme love which He shows us in this Sacrament, and the principal object, to make reparation for the contempt and outrages which He suffers in this same Sacrament."
– Jean Croiset SJ, 17th-century promoter of the Sacred Heart devotion chosen by Christ himself.
This painting is in the Sacred Heart church in Lille, France.
"Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers –
all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.
As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross."
– Col 1:15-20, which is today's 1st reading at Mass.
Today is the first Friday of the month, which is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
This depiction of the Sacred Heart is from Aberdeen Cathedral.
"I could plainly see His heart, pierced and bleeding, yet there were flames, too, coming from it and a crown of thorns around it. He told me to behold His heart which so loved humanity. Then He seemed to take my very heart from me and place it there in His heart. In return He gave me back part of His flaming heart."
– St Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Mosaic detail from the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes.
Early postcard views of the Roman Catholic Shrine of the Sacred Heart, just off 16th Street at Park Road NW. The church was designed by Frederick V. Murphy, who founded the Architecture School at Catholic University, and completed in 1922. Highly decorated with colored stone from the John J. Early studio. Lately, biofilm has been discoloring the limestone surfaces.
June is the month of the Sacred Heart, which stands for God's ardent love for the salvation of souls.
"For evangelization today," St John Paul II said, "the Heart of Christ must be recognized as the heart of the Church: It is He who calls us to conversion, to reconciliation. It is He who leads pure hearts and those hungering for justice along the way of the Beatitudes. It is He who achieves the warm communion of the members of the one Body. It is He who enables us to adhere to the Good News and to accept the promise of eternal life. It is He who sends us out on mission. The heart-to-heart with Jesus broadens the human heart on a global scale."
This statue of the Sacred Heart is in St Dominic's church in London where I am now based. May the Lord bless my work here with my brothers, and may his Sacred Heart be the fount of many conversions to the love of God.
"Being before the Blessed Sacrament one day of its octave, I received from my God signal tokens of His love, and I felt urged with the desire of making Him some return, and of rendering Him love for love."
– St Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visionary of the Sacred Heart.
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This tabernacle door is in the Cathedral of St Patrick in New York.
"Come back, disloyal children – it is the Lord who speaks – for I alone am your Master. I will take one from a town, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion. I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and these shall feed you on knowledge and discretion. And when you have increased and become many in the land, then – it is the Lord who speaks – no one will ever say again: Where is the ark of the covenant of the Lord? There will be no thought of it, no memory of it, no regret for it, no making of another. When that time comes, Jerusalem shall be called: The Throne of the Lord; all the nations will gather there in the name of the Lord and will no longer follow the dictates of their own stubborn hearts."
– Jer 3:14-17, which is today's 1st reading at Mass.
Stained glass window from Saint Sulpice in Paris.
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy sacred Heart.
Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to Thy Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Saviour; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: "Praise be to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever." Amen.
From 'The Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by St Margaret Mary Alacoque:
"He made known to me the ineffable marvels of His pure [love] and showed me to what an excess He had loved men, from whom He received only ingratitude and contempt."I feel this more,"[He said] "than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My love, I should think but little of all I have done for them and would wish, were it possible, to suffer still more. But the sole return they make for all My eagerness to do them good is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness. Do thou at least console Me by supplying for their ingratitude, as far as thou art able."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This mosaic of the Sacred Heart with the Pope offering the world to Christ is in the apse of the famous Basilica of Sacré Coeur in Montmartre, Paris.
From 1673 to 1675, Christ appeared to St Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation Nun in Paray-le-Monial, France, in a series of mystical visions. Christ revealed to her his passionate love for all humanity, symbolised by his Sacred Heart, and his sorrow at the world’s indifference to divine love and salvation:
"And He [Christ] showed me that it was His great desire to be loved by all people and to withdraw them from the path of ruin that made Him form the design of revealing His Heart to all people, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace, of sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order that those who desire to give Him all the honour and love possible, might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which His heart is the source."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This stained glass window is in the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Altoona, PA.
Tweeted these 4 images after the game today and 0 people liked them. Think I need to rethink my social media strategy.
"Pour out on us, we pray, O Lord, the spirit with which you so remarkably endowed Saint Margaret Mary, so that we may come to know that love of Christ which surpasses all understanding and be utterly filled with your fullness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
– Collect for today's (16 Oct) feast of St Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Stained glass window in the church of St Jean-Baptiste in New York.
"O God, who in the Heart of your Son,
wounded by our sins,
bestow on us in mercy
the boundless treasures of your love,
grant, we pray,
that, in paying him the homage of our devotion,
we may also offer worthy reparation.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
Stained glass window from the church of the Sacred Heart in Brussels.
"O eternal Truth, true Love, and beloved Eternity, you are my God, and for you I sigh day and night… Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace."
– St Augustine.
This Sacred Heart Altar is in the church of St Malachy in New York City.
"The most Sacred Heart of Jesus, with a cross rising from it and shining forth with dazzling splendour amidst flames of love. In that Sacred Heart all our hopes should be placed, and from it the salvation of men is to be confidently besought" – Pope Leo XIII.
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
Stained glass window from the church of St Denis in Hanover, PA.
Early postcard views of the Roman Catholic Shrine of the Sacred Heart, just off 16th Street at Park Road NW. The church was designed by Frederick V. Murphy, who founded the Architecture School at Catholic University, and completed in 1922. Highly decorated with colored stone from the John J. Early studio. Lately, biofilm has been discoloring the limestone surfaces.