19 June 2020 | Sacred Heart of Jesus | Menlo Park, Calif.

Do you know the desires, the powerful “designs of mercy,” which the Lord bears for you in His heart? On this feast of the Sacred and Pierced Heart of Jesus, I share about the redemption He can accomplish in us when we allow Him in to the deepest areas of our own wounded and weary hearts, as well as the inseparable relationship between adoration and transformation at every stage of the spiritual life. Also on the docket: the origins of this feast in post-revolutionary France, and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, the Bard’s most complicated, labyrinthine, and thoroughly enjoyable plot yet. 

Opening music: “Cor arca legem continens,” hymn at Lauds of the Sacred Heart from the Roman Breviary, sung by the Schola Sainte-Cécile, Paris, 2012. All rights reserved.