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Today, we're talking about the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
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Reading I: Ez 34:11-16 Thus says the Lord GOD:
I myself will look after and tend my sheep.
As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered
sheep, so will I tend my sheep.
I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered
when it was cloudy and dark.
I will lead them out from among the peoples and gather them from the foreign lands;
I will bring them back to their own country and pasture them upon the mountains of Israel
in the land's ravines and all its inhabited places.
In good pastures will I pasture them, and on the mountain heights of Israel
shall be their grazing ground.
There they shall lie down on good grazing ground,
and in rich pastures shall they be pastured on the mountains of Israel.
I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the Lord
GOD.
The lost I will seek out, the strayed I will bring back,
the injured I will bind up, the sick I will heal,
but the sleek and the strong I will destroy, shepherding them rightly.
Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6.
R (1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me;
he refreshes my soul.
R The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
He guides me in right paths for his name's sake.
Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side
with your rod and your staff that give me courage.
R The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes;
you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
R The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for years to come.
R The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Reading II: Rom 5:5b-11 Brothers and sisters:
The love of God has been poured out into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly.
Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person,
though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die.
But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ
died for us.
How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood,
will we be saved through him from the wrath.
Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death
of his Son, how much more, once reconciled,
will we be saved by his life.
Not only that, but we also boast of God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I am the good shepherd, says the Lord, I know my sheep, and mine know me.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel: Lk 15:3-7 Jesus addressed this parable to the Pharisees
and scribes: "What man among you having a hundred sheep
and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert
and go after the lost one until he finds it?
And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy
and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors
and says to them, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost
sheep.'
I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of repentance."
This week, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
In fact, the whole month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
So what do we mean by the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
Jesus’ physical heart is a symbol of God’s love for us.
The image of the Sacred Heart usually shows his heart with fire, the crown of thorns,
the Cross, and the lance wound that is bleeding.
The fire represents his love and the Holy Spirit.
The crown of thorns, the Cross, and the lance wound are symbols of the Passion, the ultimate
act of God’s love.
The Passion shows that God loves people who hate him and reject him, not just in the past,
but now.
His love seems extreme because it goes beyond our understanding.
After all, what person would die for people who hate him?
Why would God die for us?
Well, he doesn’t love us and die for us because we deserve it.
He doesn’t love us because we do good things.
He doesn't love us less when we do bad things.
This might seem strange, and even disappointing.
We think that if we work hard, and do lots of good things, we’ll earn his love like
a shiny golden star.
But that’s not how God’s love works because his love is not a feeling that passes.
God is love.
It’s his very being.
He doesn’t stop loving.
The wildness of God’s love is evident in the Gospel.
Jesus tells a parable where a shepherd with 100 sheep realizes that one is lost.
It’s lost in the desert, so it will die without help.
The shepherd leaves the 99 good sheep to find the one troublemaking sheep.
How do we make sense of this?
No normal shepherd would leave 99 sheep unprotected to find just one missing sheep.
But God goes anyway.
His love for the 99 sheep is equal to his love for the one because it is infinite.
He comes and finds you and me.
He picks us up from wherever we’ve gotten stuck.
Life is hard and we make mistakes, but God’s love burns in the dark parts of our lives
and in the bright ones.
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