And it is successfully overturned!

Deo gratias et Mariae semper Virgini!

 

Let us remember the gifts and promises for those who love the Sacred Heart of Jesus on today's Feast.

'What beautiful thoughts come to me as I meditate now on our Redeemer, whose feast of the Most Sacred Heart we are about to celebrate very soon. That most Sacred Heart teaches us two truths in particular, that is, humility, as he says discite, etc. and holy love, symbolized in those flames surrounding the Sacred Divine Heart. Ignem veni mittere in terram, etc. [I have come to cast fire on the earth, etc.] So, let us then place ourselves before him and ask him to sanctify our hearts and supply us with all that we need.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

'Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

'We should never postpone a good work, no matter how small it may be, with the thought of later doing something greater. It is a very common temptation of the enemy to be always placing before us the perfection of things to come and bring us to make little of the present.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

'Prevent your intellect from pursuing sensible things, so that it does not reap the fruits of pleasure and pain which they produce.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

These sorts of deeper meanings are very inspiring to find.

'Armed with prayer, the saints sustained a glorious warfare and vanquished all their enemies. By prayer, also, they appeased the wrath of God, and obtained from Him all they desired.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

'An intellect dominated by the passions thinks base thoughts; words and actions bring these thoughts into the open. '

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'Wickedness is an intricate net; and if someone is careless when partially entangled, he gets completely enmeshed.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

'If someone shuts a snake and a scorpion up in a bottle, in time, they will be completely destroyed. So it is with evil thoughts: they are suggested by the demons; they disappear through patience.'

St. Poemen

'Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'He who shall courageously present himself to drink our Savior's chalice will find that a certain divine strength will never fail him in persecutions.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

'God takes especial delight in the humility of a man who believes that he has not yet begun to do any good.'

St. Philip Neri

'We may ask a spiritual alms even corporally, by going first to the church of one Saint, and then to the church of another, to make our petition.'

St. Philip Neri

'When we enter ornate and clean Basilicas, adorned with crosses, sacred images, altars and burning lamps, we most easily conceive devotion. But on the other hand, when we enter the temples of the heretics, where there is nothing except a chair for preaching and a table for making a meal, we feel ourselves to be entering a profane hall and not the House of God.'

St. Robert Bellarmine