Chapter Talk – Sacred Heart – June 13, 2021, cycle-B Jesus: the icon of God’s love, the icon stamped upon our hearts. Thus, this is our end goal (telios) to become fully open, arms outstretched in mercy and compassion.  “Acquire a heart and you shall be saved”.  This desert saying coming out of the fourth […]

Chapter Talk – Solemnity of the Sacred Heart – June 19, 2020 John, the ‘beloved disciple’ leaned on the chest of Christ. The ‘beloved disciple’ leaned on the “divine-human heart” (Wendy Wright, Sacred Heart Gateway to God, p.15). In John’s gospel we all are the ‘beloved disciple’. What are we ‘leaning’ upon when we lean […]

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