In honor of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, and all my fellow pro-life advocates who have dedicated their lives to caring for women and children, born and unborn. #prolifeforthewholelife
On this day
We hail the feast
Of heaven’s fountain,
Red with wine,
Flowing for the wedding feast
Of God Incanate.
We hear the drumming,
Inside and outside,
Beckoning us
To this Heart of flesh
That beats with love
Divine,
That bleeds with mercy
Fathomless.
Each drop
An ocean’s depth,
Where pearls lie waiting
In their shells.
Oh, break them open!
Pierce us through!
Pin us back against the rood!
Come, enter the bride’s chamber
So she may hear the pulse,
Her head upon Your breast,
And consummate this union!
O Knight, slain as a serf
To woo redemption,
O Prince of thorns and lillies,
Crushed for ointment,
Grant us agony and bliss!
Take our hearts as tokens
And put Yours in their stead
That we may live Your Life!
Let us be the midwives
Of Your heart
Beating in every breast.
Let us keep an open wound
To feel our neighbor’s pain.
The least of these are Yours,
The tiny flames of life
Springing up
Like John the Baptist leaped
When your Mother spoke her greeting.
You were there –
Your Heart beneath her heart,
As You where knit and kneaded
In that sacred shelter.
Her presence and protection,
Her blood and milk,
Her womanhood
Brought God and Man
Together.
What greater love is there?
We spend our lives for others,
As Yours was spent for us,
And so You are our Mother,
And our Brother,
And our Lover,
And the slain in every tomb,
And the child in every womb,
And we are bound to you,
Heart unto heart,
In time
And in eternity.
Amen. Thank you.