The perfect union in heaven of our hearts with the heart
of Jesus is a mystery which we believe here below, but cannot understand. The
kingdom of Christ, which on earth embraces all who suffer and strive for His
cause, will not cease in heaven; there, however, combat will give place to the
victor’s crown, and the Church militant will become the Church triumphant. King
of the kingdom of the blessed is Christ. His heart is the heart of the Church
triumphant. His heart and the hearts of His followers will be but one heart. Of
course, each of the blessed will have his own body and his own physical heart;
he will also have his own soul endowed with intelligence and free will. But all
beatific knowledge and all beatific love will have its source and origin in
Christ, just as all grace which we pilgrims receive here below is vital energy
from the vine which is Christ. Even in heaven the blessed are not merely
individuals existing for themselves alone, but constitute there, even as here,
the mystical body of Christ, with this difference, however, that in heaven the
union of all with each other and with Christ is absolutely perfect. The
sentiments of Christ are the sentiments of each individual, nor does the least
obstacle mar such conformity. These sentiments are the purest, most ardent love
of God, not a love of sacrifice nor of suffering for there is nothing to be
sacrificed or suffered, but only rapturous, blissful, intoxicating love of God.
All the flames of this love have their origin in the heart of Jesus, and in
union with the love of the heart of Jesus they constitute the worship of heaven
that endures without ceasing from day to day, from hour to hour. How long will
this union of hearts with the heart of Jesus endure? Forever!
~ Christian Pesch, S.J., Our Best Friend [Unser bester
Freund: Erwägungen für den Herz-Jesu-Monat] translated
from the German by Bernard A. Hausmann, S.J. (Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing
Company, 1953), pp. 219-220.
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“If this perfection of union with our suffering Saviour seems to us unattainable, we can, at least after his example, bear with patience and resignation the sufferings which God’s providence send us. Then our heart will one day become one with the heart of Jesus in that land where this union implies unalloyed joy and happiness.” p.219
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: have mercy upon thy servant - thy son - in his dereliction and despair....
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