Final portion of the talk by Father Edouard Marot on Loving the Heart of Jesus (translated from the French)
The Saints and the Heart of Jesus
Almost all of the Saints, canonized by Blessed John Paul II, were devotees of the Heart of Christ.
The Heart of Jesus remains more open than ever … He continues to tell mankind that needs direction: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will refresh you! ”
Through St. Faustina, he asked that Mercy Sunday be celebrated after Easter. Thus the feelings of Jesus for humanity, so hurt, so sick of sin, were manifest in time, … “The world will find salvation in the mercy of the Heart of Jesus! “Blessed John Paul II had forcefully proclaimed.
It’s always the same “Heart” of Jesus we contemplate in the Gospels. For John, “Jesus knew that his time had come …” John 13:1. Jesus prayed for his apostles who were his friends … Jesus is fully human. His humanity is the fullness of the Godhead.
Jesus is deeply hurt by the betrayal of a friend. “This is one to whom I shall give this morsel,” he says to John, who asks who will betray him? This is a clear sign! And yet none of the apostles understood because that gesture is especially an honor! His love goes all the way! For Judas too!
John put his head on the breast of Christ. As he confessed to St. Gertrude who had the ineffable experience of the pulsations of the Heart of Jesus, he felt the fire burning in the bosom of Jesus. “To speak of the sweetness of this Heart, was reserved for these modern times so that by listening to them, the world, already aged and torpid in its love for God,can regain its fervor.”
We are this generation to whom Jesus reveals his heart.