Monday, February 13, 2017



Speaking of the love of the Heart of Jesus, Canon P.A. Sheehan, D.D. wrote:

"Who shall measure it or sound its depths? It is like looking up into the blue sky. Infinite azure everywhere, but the mind that attempts to measure its height is sure to lose itself. So it is with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Love, benevolence, charity, kindness everywhere; but 'the breadth and the length and the height and the depth', neither St. Thomas, with his giant intellect, nor the seraphic intelligence of the highest angel, nor the all but infinite mind of Mary, can measure."

Sermons of P.A. Canon Sheehan, D.D., imprimatur 1920.

I've always loved that passage...that the love of Christ is so wide and so high and so deep that we can never even comprehend it. Even the Seraphim cannot plumb its depths!

(Statue in Saint-Saveur Church in Aix-en-Provence.)

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