My son, give me your heart!
God, fully happy with his own happiness, bowed down to the smallest of his creatures to solicit his love. He became man to give himself to all humanity. This abyss of mercy should arouse ineffable gratitude from us.
Nothing is more touching than the attitude of Jesus who stands at the door of our hearts and knocks to enter. He makes himself small, humble, patient, supplicating: “My son, give me your heart!” But we remain deaf because our hearts remain cluttered with the spirit of the world, with its pleasures, and we seek our happiness in vain idols or fleeting pleasures.
If He wished, Jesus could force His way into us, but that is not the method He chooses; He leaves us free. During this month, when we especially honor His Sacred Heart, let us offer and consecrate our hearts to Jesus, without reserve or return. Receiving Him, Jesus will expand it, ennoble it, and fill it with all His affections.
Our transformed hearts will become capable of loving without measure. This is what all the saints have done. Even more, we will fulfill Jesus’ prayer to His Father: “That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” » (John 17:21)
(These three pieces of advice were taken from Sister Marie du Sacré Cœur Bernaud in the book “Month of the Sacred Heart of 1891” published by the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse.)