The thoughts of His Heart are from generation to generation: To deliver their souls from death, and feed them in famine. {Psalm 32:11, 19}*
“This is a feast of unrequited love.”
Let that sink in for a moment. Ouch, okay now back away from that thought. Drop it like a hot potato. No matter who you are, no matter what your calling in life, no matter whether you are male or female, I’m betting you know what unrequited love feels like. We all do.
It might have been the crush who never liked you back.
The person who never responded to your overtures of friendship.
The parent who you couldn’t please.
The child who doesn’t appreciate anything you do.
The spouse who leaves you feeling lonely.
The friend who never calls/texts back.
The person who left your life with no explanation.
We’ve all been there. On some level, we have all experienced unrequited love. And goodness, does it hurt.
“Today is a feast of unrequited love.”
I challenge you to take those feelings that come from your unrequited love, to dig them up from wherever they are safely buried in your mind, and to re examine them in the light of His heart. His broken, bleeding heart. Celebrating these feelings might seem impossible but recognize them for what they are; a rare insight into the mysteries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
My heart hath expected reproach and misery: and I looked for one that would grieve together with Me, but there was none: and for one who would comfort Me, and I found none. {Psalm 68:21}*
You have felt what He feels. He has felt what you feel. Let today be the day that you comfort each other. His heart bleeds for you and I….and we try to drown out the sound of our own bleeding hearts with Netflix instead of turning to Him.
Late have I loved You, O Beauty, so ancient so new, late have I loved You!
St. Augustine
Today is a feast of unrequited love. Mourn it with Him. Celebrate it with Him. Unite yourself to Him through it. Let Him love you. Love Him back.
V: Cor Jesu sacratÃssimum.
R: Miserére nobis.
Pax Vobis.
May Thy holy mysteries, O Lord Jesus, impart to us divine fervor: wherein we may taste the sweetness of Thy most loving Heart, and learn to despise what is earthly and love what is heavenly: Who livest and reignest.*
*these are prayers from today’s feast, The Sacred Heart of Jesus (pg. 718), the Introit, Offertory and Postcommunion, taken from the 1962 Daily Missal.
