Love was her reason

We have opened June with an explosion of love and respect for the Queen who has just celebrated 60 years on the throne. Sixty years of fidelity, hard work and steadfast devotion to the Christian principles which have guided her all her life.  What a witness!

This month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart: it is wrapped up in love.  Perhaps the weather lets us down a bit, but through the rain and the mist we can sense the bright, warming light of love that is the ongoing Incarnation in our world. 

Our Founder, Mother Magdalen Taylor, loved this month because it is all about love.  The love of God for us, the love we have for one another. The sort of love that makes us smile, that helps us to reach out  to those who lack it, so that they can feel better about themselves.

She didn’t believe in some of the pious practices which were popular in her time.  She had a very real and trenchant attitude to prayer.

“Love of the Sacred Heart does not consist in pious practices, but in a real practical love for the Sacred Heart and a realisation of his love for us!” she said.  She added that it must lead to a devotion to those in need.  If it doesn’t it remains merely a pious practice.  There you are.

She  believed that the Sacred Heart always pleads for us. In fact she commissioned a statue of it.

She died on the 9^th June 1900. “Invoke the Sacred Heart” were her last words to us.

So let’s remember that love grows as we exercise it.   Sometime this month, remember Victor Hugo’s words :

To love another is to touch the face of God.

What a wonderful thought for the month of the Sacred Heart: and it is realisable.  Happy loving!