Patrick Kavanagh wrote in his poem “Having Confessed” that “God cannot catch us unless we stay in the unconscious room of our heart”. Nicolas Barre too was led into his own heart and was moved with pity at the sight of so much suffering around him. He asked the Sisters to teach people “the prayer of the heart” knowing that it is in the deep heart’s core that the Holy Spirit can reach and transform us, and convince us that, when all is said and done, we are infinitely loved. “The Institute has its origin in the very Heart of God” and this Heart of God is incarnated in the Heart of Jesus. Recently Pope Francis wrote a new encyclical ‘ Dilexit Nos/ He Loved Us” to remind us that the Heart of Jesus is a living burning furnace of both human and divine Love. Looking at our world of violence, apathy and ecological destruction Pope Francis writes that “living as we do in an age of superficiality, rushing frenetically from one thing to another without really knowing why, and ending up as insatiable consumers and slaves to the mechanisms of a market, that is unconcerned about the deeper meaning of our lives, all of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart” (DN 2).
“Let your hearts dilate with happiness as you contempla the excellence of your vocation.” (P.M. 35)
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