On the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, an excerpt from Encounters with Silence (Fr Karl Rahner, SJ)
Only in love can I find you, my God.
In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self.
In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness.
In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.
Glory to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen
