Day 3: The Risen Child

Welcome to Day #3 of our Heart-to-Heart Mini-Retreat!

We at Catholic Holy Hour are offering eight days of prayer to the Sacred Heart honoring the apparitions of Jesus during the Octave of Corpus Christi (June 13-20, 1675… exactly 350 years ago!) in which He gave the Sacred Heart devotions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Sonnet Three from The Golden Chapel of the Sacred Heart [VIDEO – click on the play icon to start]

The Golden Chapel of the Sacred Heart

A Sonnet Crown to the Sacred Heart as Healer
III

Pick up our stretchers. Rise, released and blessed:
that is the way it feels to move again
after we’re paralyzed. What if the rest
we face is not limb’s numbness, but death’s pain?
The Master took the dead little girl’s hand
and called it sleep, then guided her awake.
What loss will He not transform, understand,
and resurrect? His Sacred Heart can take
dead skin and make it living flesh. That girl
would ride, like Lazarus, the tide from death—
to life, a second chance, a blinding whirl
of light returned, a rushing tide of breath.
Whatever we have in us that is dead—
know He can make it beautiful instead.

—Annabelle Moseley, from Our House of the Sacred Heart

Ponder and Pray Questions:

  1. Read Matthew 9:18-26 (see below)
  2. What verse or word in this passage moves you most deeply?
  3. When have you felt the kind of pain, or death or numbness that the poem describes?
  4. What is it that you would prayerfully ask Jesus to make beautiful?

Chapter 9, the Official’s Daughter and the Woman with a Hemorrhage

While he was saying these things to them, an official came forward, knelt down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.” Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples. A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured.

When Jesus arrived at the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion, he said, “Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they ridiculed him. When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand, and the little girl arose. And news of this spread throughout all that land.

Let us contemplate the love of the Sacred Heart as we listen:

O Heart Of Jesus [VIDEO – click on the play icon to start]

Together we pray: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto Thine.

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