{"id":10276,"date":"2024-05-31T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/?post_type=talba-bl-arti&p=10276"},"modified":"2024-05-28T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:11:46","slug":"that-heart-beating-at-the-heart-the-world","status":"publish","type":"talba-bl-arti","link":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/en\/talba-bl-arti\/that-heart-beating-at-the-heart-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"That Heart beating at the heart the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fourth reflection about the painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at St Ubaldesca Church, Paola<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For as long as our hearts live on the face of the earth, they do so in faith, ablaze with overflowing love, crying out \u201cCome!\u201d And even if it seems that no words can explain the sighs of our hearts, may the intercessory prayers of your Spirit be acceptable to you, and you acknowledge that his desire in us is to beseech you to \u201cCome\u201d. \u201cCome\u201d we ask you, in this our flesh. \u201cCome\u201d we, your Bride, implore you. \u201cCome!\u201d<\/p>

But until the final beat of your Heart draws our own hearts into yours eternally, your Heart will keep beating in the midst of the earth. <\/p>G\u0127ada t\u0127abbat fil-Qalb tad-Dinja<\/em> (Malta, Reli\u0121jon u \u0126ajja, 2023), 60-61.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For as long as our hearts live on the face of the earth, they do so in faith, ablaze with overflowing love, crying out \u201cCome!\u201d And even if it seems that no words can explain the sighs of our hearts, may the intercessory prayers of your Spirit be acceptable to you, and you acknowledge that his desire in us is to beseech you to \u201cCome\u201d. \u201cCome\u201d we ask you, in this our flesh. \u201cCome\u201d we, your Bride, implore you. \u201cCome!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But until the final beat of your Heart draws our own hearts into yours eternally, your Heart will keep beating in the midst of the earth. G\u0127ada t\u0127abbat fil-Qalb tad-Dinja<\/em> (Malta, Reli\u0121jon u \u0126ajja, 2023), 60-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ\u2014Corpus Christi in Latin\u2014around this time, it is appropriate for us to cast our eyes upon the Eucharistic motifs in this painting. We see Jesus holding the glowing bread and cup. Even the top of the painting\u2019s frame is adorned with the symbolic wheat and grapes, the basic ingredients to make bread and wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We might note that Christ\u2019s pose is a \u2018priestly\u2019 one: his eyes fixed on the heavens, and holding the bread and wine, as though repeating the Doxology (\u201cthrough Him, with Him, and in Him\u2026\u201d) that the celebrant says at the end of the Eucharistic Prayer to express the honour and glory due to the Father through Christ who offers us his body and his blood as our spiritual nourishment and drink. His body and blood \u2026 his flesh and blood\u2026 In substance, the source of the devotion towards the Sacred Heart of Jesus lies in the faith in the Incarnation\u2014God taking on human nature, with a beating human heart sending the blood around the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same routine is observed at communion: after receiving the Body of Christ, we are sent forth in peace\u2014as if pumped out into the world\u2014to share the gift of self to others in the same way as Our Lord, until we congregate again the following Sunday\u2014when we are pulled back to the Lord\u2019s heart. From Sunday to Sunday until the Lord comes again, we go forth towards the unending Sunday of the heavenly Jerusalem, where we shall all find ourselves in the embrace of that Sacred Heart (see John Paul II, Dies Domini<\/em>, paragraph 84).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until that day comes, \u201cwhenever we eat this Bread and Drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.\u201d This is what we state in one of the responses as we are invited to consider the mystery of faith before us after consecration. In the Eucharist, we live in this tension between what we can feel in the present and that which we shall only experience in its fullness at the end of time. It is for this reason that the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, concludes with the Spirit and the Bride\u2014the Church\u2014saying \u201cCome\u201d (Revelation 22:17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you live out this tension expressed in the Eucharist as the source and summit of the life of the Church? Do you hear this Heart beating when you receive communion? Can you still hear it away from church, where you become Eucharist to others, even if you find yourself in the cold and darkness? Even if you do not hear this heartbeat, worry not. 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