#reparation

Miles Cleveland Goodwin, “Reparation”

You are not alone dw

Jack black can definitely get ts and Oprah

All the white folks no shade

Can't get his daddy no more but trust I'll be in my dreams fighting that hoe

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we who glory in the Heart of Your beloved Son and recall the wonders of His love for us may be made worthy to receive an overflowing measure of grace from that fount of heavenly gifts. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus, ut qui, dilécti Fílii tui Corde gloriántes, eius præcípua in nos benefícia recólimus caritátis, de illo donórum fonte cælésti supereffluéntem grátiam mereámur accípere. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum

Catholic collect for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, according to the Roman Rite

O God, who in the Heart of Your Son, wounded by our sins, bestow on us in mercy the boundless treasures of Your love; grant, we pray, that, in paying Him the homage of our devotion, we may also offer worthy reparation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Deus, qui nobis in Corde Fílii tui, nostris vulneráto peccátis, infinítos dilectiónis thesáuros misericórditer largíri dignáris, concéde, quǽsumus, ut, illi devótum pietátis nostræ præstántes obséquium, dignæ quoque satisfactiónis exhibeámus offícium. Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

an alternative Catholic collect for the Catholic Feast of the Sacred Heart, originally the collect from the Tridentine Form of the liturgy

Father, we honor the Heart of Your Son, broken by man's cruelty, yet a symbol of love's triumph, pledge of all that man is called to be. Teach us to see Christ in the lives we touch, to offer Him living worship by love-filled service to our brothers and sisters. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

🔥 CONFERENCIA DEL SANTO ROSTRO 🔥

📅 17 de febrero de 2026 (Martes de Carnaval – Fiesta del Santo Rostro)

⏰ 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.

📍 Pico Rivera Sports Arena

11003 Sports Arena Dr, Pico Rivera, CA

Un día de oración, reparación, sanación y guerra espiritual, bajo la mirada del Santo Rostro de Jesús y el amparo de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.

🍽️ Habrá comida y bebidas disponibles

🛍️ Mercancía oficial del apostolado a la venta

⚠️ El evento será en inglés,

🎧 con traducción simultánea al español (audio y texto en pantalla).

💵 Entrada: $40 por persona (pago en la puerta disponible)

💻 Se recomienda registrarse en línea para asegurar su lugar

✨ En la antesala de la Cuaresma, el Cielo nos llama.

Eze 34:11-16; Ps 22; Romans 5:5b-11; Luke 15:3-7

One of my favourite churches in Rome is the ancient Basilica of St Lawrence, located outside the walls of Rome, a good 45 minute walk from the Colosseum and next to Rome’s main cemetery. In the retrochoir of the Basilica is the tomb of Pope Blessed Pius IX, who shepherded Christ’s Church on earth for almost 32 years; the longest serving pope in history. Pius IX was initially buried in St Peter’s Basilica while the retrochoir was being decorated with mosaics and prepared for the transfer of his body to his final resting place in San Lorenzo, four years after his death in 1878. He is one of three popes buried in this basilica, and he chose this basilica because it was his favourite. Similarly, we saw recently that Pope Francis was buried in his favourite basilica, St Mary Major. 

Looking down at the body of Pope Bl. Pius IX is a beautiful mosaic of a youthful Good Shepherd, like one of those found in the Roman catacombs, and he carries a docile sheep over his shoulders, and from his breast burns his Sacred Heart, surrounded by golden rays. For it was Pius IX who in 1856 had made the feast of the Sacred Heart a universal feast of the Church, and he had beatified St Margaret Mary Alacoque, visionary and messenger of the Sacred Heart in 1864, and he also consecrated the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1875; this year thus marks the 150th anniversary of that act of consecration and the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary in 1675. Devoted to the Sacred Heart, Pius IX had often prayed: “Open your Sacred Heart, O Jesus! Show me its beauty, and unite me with it forever.”

This image of the Good Shepherd combined with the Sacred Heart are so apt given the readings we have heard today. For Pope St Pius IX also established the Commission for Sacred Archaeology to care for and to conduct research into the ancient cemeteries and Christian catacombs of Rome that were being excavated in the 19th century. Among the paleo-Christian images discovered in the catacombs, one of the most popular is that of a young shepherd carrying a lamb across his shoulders. For Christ is that Good Shepherd (cf John 10:11) who carries us, his sheep, from the wolf’s jaws of death into the safe pastures of eternal life. Christ, motivated by divine love symbolised by his Sacred Heart, has come to protect us, rescue us, and lead us to salvation if only we, like docile lambs, will allow him to graciously carry us on his shoulders. Christ is thus shown holding the lamb still with his two hands: He gently but firmly holds on to us, and his touch, mediated through the Sacraments of the Church, imparts his grace and virtues so that we will not struggle but rather hear his voice and so follow him. As Pope Francis said in his fine encyclical on the Sacred Heart: “The Lord knows the fine science of the caress. In his compassion, God does not love us with words; he comes forth to meet us and, by his closeness, he shows us the depth of his tender love.” (Dilexit Nos, 36)

In this mosaic image, the sheep carried by the shepherd looks out at the observer as if to invite us to follow its example of docile obedience to Christ. But perhaps it also stands for the Lamb of God himself who lays down his life for us (cf Jn 10:17). As such it calls us to consider that Christ, out of the fathomless love he has for sinners, had humbly allowed himself to be bound and offered as the lamb of sacrifice for our salvation. As we recall the costliness of our redemption from sin, then, we are invited to make reparation for sin, and for the indifference to God’s love and mercy of so many. As Pope Francis, inspired by Bl. Pius IX’s words, said, “The natural desire to console Christ, which begins with our sorrow in contemplating what he endured for us, grows with the honest acknowledgment of our bad habits, compulsions, attachments, weak faith, vain goals and, together with our actual sins, the failure of our hearts to respond to the Lord’s love and his plan for our lives. This experience proves purifying, for love needs the purification of tears that, in the end, leave us more desirous of God and less obsessed with ourselves.” (Ibid., 158)

This call for reparation for our sins which have wounded the heart of Christ, and which have necessitated his sacrifice on the Cross goes back to the apparitions of St Margaret Mary. In June 1675 Our Lord pointed to his heart and said: “This is the heart that so loved human beings that it has spared nothing, even to emptying and consuming itself in order to show them its love. And in return, I receive from the greater part of them nothing but ingratitude, by the contempt, irreverence, sacrileges and coldness with which they treat Me in this Sacrament of Love.” Jesus thus told St Margaret Mary to institute today’s feast day to honour his Sacred Heart, and for us to make amends by receiving Communion in a state of grace, and with great devotion and love and a spirit of reparation for the neglect and indifference of so many. I would think that this call, made 350 years ago, is even more urgent today which is why Pope Francis left us what was effectively his last testament, the very fine encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Dilexit nos, calling the whole Church to revive devotion to the Sacred Heart, which is nothing less than a devotion to the Holy Eucharist, the heart of Christ present for us sacramentally, and the heart of the Church.