Since June is specially devoted to the Sacred Heart we will be paying particular attention to this devotion throughout the month.
From "A Meditation on the Sacred Heart," by Fr. Charles Borgo, SJ, first published in Italian in 1778:
O happy insensibility to all the goods of this life! How necessary is this insensibility for you to make your heart happy, even in this life! Say once more to yourself, "My heart is of the same nature as is the Heart of Jesus Christ: that only which makes Him happy can make me happy also." Call to mind those days, or at least those hours of your life, when your heart was most inflamed with love of your God. O sweet and yet bitter recollection! What was then wanting to your happiness? Compare the tranquillity of your heart then with that which it enjoys at present. Compassionate yourself, envy yourself, be indignant with yourself.
From "A Meditation on the Sacred Heart," by Fr. Charles Borgo, SJ, first published in Italian in 1778:
O happy insensibility to all the goods of this life! How necessary is this insensibility for you to make your heart happy, even in this life! Say once more to yourself, "My heart is of the same nature as is the Heart of Jesus Christ: that only which makes Him happy can make me happy also." Call to mind those days, or at least those hours of your life, when your heart was most inflamed with love of your God. O sweet and yet bitter recollection! What was then wanting to your happiness? Compare the tranquillity of your heart then with that which it enjoys at present. Compassionate yourself, envy yourself, be indignant with yourself.
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