Holy Week and The Sacred Heart
I have seen tons of paintings of Jesus and the Saints where the flaming Sacred Heart is depicted but I never really thought about what exactly it was supposed to represent. I just got done reading Father Rohr’s latest email meditation (the Tuesday of Holy Week edition) and I now have a better understanding of what the Sacred Heart symbolism is about. Beautiful.
The more love and hope we have invested in another person, the deeper the pain of betrayal is. If it happens at a personal level, we wonder if we will ever trust again. Our heart does “break.” It is one of those crossroad moments, when the breaking can forever close you down, or sometimes just the opposite—open you up to an enlargement of heart and soul.
We all know that Jesus chose the second path, and this is the man we call “the sacred heart,” with his heart exposed and offered outside of his chest. It is a daring but necessary metaphor that invites and heals our own broken hearts.
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