Two Hearts

Feast of the Immaculate Heart
Calogerus the Anchotire

Ex 19:2-6a

In those days, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp.

While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain,

Moses went up the mountain to God.

Then the LORD called to him and said,

“Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob;

tell the Israelites:

You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians

and how I bore you up on eagle wings

and brought you here to myself. 

Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant,

you shall be my special possession,

dearer to me than all other people,

though all the earth is mine.

You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”

Gospel Matthew 9:36—10:8

At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them 

because they were troubled and abandoned,

like sheep without a shepherd.

Then he said to his disciples,

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;

so ask the master of the harvest

to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Then he summoned his twelve disciples

and gave them authority over unclean spirits

to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.

The names of the twelve apostles are these:

first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;

James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;

James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;

Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus,

“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons.

Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”

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More prescious than anything, is the gift of the heart to God. With such a gift, Jesus can conquer the world, laying it waste in His love, which is to say, shorn of all other embellishment or grandeur.

That which belongs to God, does not belong to the world, and no money can buy it. All that we have comes from God, so that taking the little the poor have, is stealing from God. He will pursue anyone who tries to take what belongs to Him, and anyone who takes the life of a person given to God, will never see His Face, while those who held His children in reverence, will never cease to see His Face and be washed in bliss forever.

Bold of heart are those who love the Lord, and they shall be strengthened to see more deeply into that Heart which was pierced for love. Thus, His most precious children have been called by Him, and tasked with suffering to obtain great graces that sanctify the earth and all the peoples on it.

Even if the world itself were to vanish, God would remain, and all who loved Him will be safe in Him, for He will make a place fitting for those who loved Him.

His Mother will be  honored forever, and those who loved Her will see Her and be swept up in love to Her arms. She will pour out holiness on a world defiled by selfish sins and sinners will be troubled commensuarate with their sins, but all who come to love Her will be safe from destruction. Only those who longed for destruction will be destroyed, for His love, and His Mother's love will claim what is God;s and conserve it.

God did not send invaders to kill and destroy, but those who came will be destroyed.