Sacred Heart

"‘'I embrace the cross, I want to die with you."

"E' piei conficti ti sonno scalone acciò che tu possa giognere al costato, il quale ti manifesta el segreto del cuore. Però che salito in su' piei de l'affecto, l'anima comincia a gustare l'affecto del cuore, ponendo l'occhio de l'intellecto nel cuore aperto del mio Figliuolo, dove truova consumato e ineffabile amore."

"May the adorable Heart of our beloved Jesus unite our hearts with His and with that of our heavenly Mother."

"(About saint Paola Frassinetti) The inner strength that led to live so fully the “folly” of the cross is to be found in her tender devotion to the Heart of Jesus Christ. With her authentically apostolic sensitivity, the saint perceived that no one can carry out a true apostolate unless they have the stigmata of Christ imprinted on their heart, unless that ineffable intertwining of love and pain that is summarized in the most sacred heart of Jesus is at work in them."

"I cannot express what I felt then when I thought of the immense love of the Heart of Jesus, there all alone, forgotten, cold, indifferent to souls, unhappy because of our insensitive nature regarding the abandonment of the Lord. And the gentle Master made me understand that this happened everywhere. It is precisely the insults, the ingratitude, the forgetfulness, and above all the lukewarmness of the consecrated, intimate friends, that wound Jesus in His Heart."

"Bring everyone a ray of the tenderness of the Heart of Jesus."

"Such devotion is the very essence of Salesianism, for it is from the Sacred Heart of our Master that we, as educators, will draw the purest love for youth, the gentleness and indulgence that must accompany our words and actions, patience in the adversities and tribulations connected with our task, the spirit of sacrifice and zeal for souls."

"Uniting ourselves with the pierced Heart of Jesus and wanting to live the passion of Christ involves the awareness that embracing the Cross is an essential condition for bringing forth life around us and not allowing death to prevail over it, hatred over love, division over communion."

"Let us turn, then, to the heart of Christ, that core of his being, which is a blazing furnace of divine and human love and the most sublime fulfilment to which humanity can aspire. There, in that heart, we truly come at last to know ourselves and we learn how to love."

"The heart of Christ, as the symbol of the deepest and most personal source of his love for us, is the very core of the initial preaching of the Gospel. It stands at the origin of our faith, as the wellspring that refreshes and enlivens our Christian beliefs."

"The pierced heart of Christ embodies all God’s declarations of love present in the Scriptures. That love is no mere matter of words; rather, the open side of his Son is a source of life for those whom he loves, the fount that quenches the thirst of his people. As Saint John Paul II pointed out, “the essential elements of devotion [to the Sacred Heart] belong in a permanent fashion to the spirituality of the Church throughout her history; for since the beginning, the Church has looked to the heart of Christ pierced on the Cross”."