Pilgrim progress- a disciple on a journey!

This motto of Blessed Cardinal John Newman is what comes to my mind and heart for the feastday of the Sacred Heart. Over the next two days we will celebrate the hearts of Jesus and of Mary: Friday is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart and then Saturday the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Nowadays it seems that the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been archived back to the time of our grandparents or our parents but it still has so much to offer us as a spiritual treasure and understanding of our relationship with Jesus. Fr. William Byrne reminds us that the "devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a human heart that is inflamed with divine love, is a powerful meditation and an important theological bridge that helps us understand who Jesus is and how much he loves us." I am reposting his five reasons to adore the Sacred Heart as I think they are very insightful: 1. A Sacred Sonogram - Imagine if sonograms had existed at the time of Jesus. Just a little more than a week after...

In today’s liturgy, we are presented with two different miracles. One in the first reading from the First Book of Kings and the second in the Gospel according to St. Luke. Baker's Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as "an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God." It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. The origin of the English word goes back via Middle English and Old French, to the Latin miraculum , from mirari , to wonder at, from mirus , wonderful. We also get the word ‘ mirare ’, ‘to look upward’ in Italian. Since the end of my lectures a few weeks again, I have had a little bit more time to ponder and to wonder at the smaller details of life. C. S. Lewis tells us that “miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too l...