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June 1, 2024

Behold this Heart: A Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

/ Novena

Allow the Holy Spirit to teach and transform you through this nine-day journey with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

With an introduction and nine daily video meditations, we will delve into the heart of Jesus and his love for us personally. Each day’s reflection will explore a different virtue of the heart of Christ.

Each meditation is presented by Monica Trevino, CRC.

Allow the Holy Spirit to teach and transform you through this nine-day journey with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

About the Painting

In 1993 Joseph Fanelli, well known and classically trained Portrait and Floral Still Life painter was asked by his Mother to paint “The Sacred Heart of Jesus” for her chapel. Ten years later, the magnificent image Mr. Fanelli created has become one of the most sought after, revered images of the apparition of The Sacred Heart as well as of Jesus in general .

Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to Behold This Heart: A Meditation Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! The actual novena starts tomorrow, but you are invited to begin today with some thoughts on preparing our hearts for this journey.

Each day will include a video reflection on a particular virtue represented in the Sacred Heart presented by Monica Trevino, CRC, music selected for the day, a pdf handout to help you go deeper, and a litany to be prayed each day.

We hope you enjoy this series of meditations!

 

Day 1

 

Music

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Click Here for the pdf handout

Day 2

Day 2 – Humility of the Heart of Jesus, Shape my Heart

 

Music

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Day 3

Day 3 – Joy of the Heart of Christ, enlarge my heart

Music

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Click Here for the pdf handout

 

 

Day 4

Music

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

 

Click Here for the pdf handout

Day 5

Music

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Click Here for the pdf handout

Day 6

Day 6 – Knowledge of the Heart of Christ, make my heart wise

 

Music

 

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Click Here for the pdf handout

 

Day 7

Day 7 – Silence of the Heart of Christ, speak to my heart

 

 

MusicMusic

 

 

Music

 

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

 

Click Here for the pdf handout

Day 8

Day 8 – Will of the Heart of Christ, govern my heart

 

 

Music

 

 

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

Day 9

Day 9 – Patience of the Heart of Christ, support my heart

 

 

Music


Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

 

Click Here for the pdf handout

Day 10

Day 10 – Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

 

Music

 

Litany

With the Kingdom of your Heart, reign in my heart.
With the humility of your Heart, shape my heart.
With the joy of your Heart, enlarge my heart.
With the love of your Heart, inflame my heart.
With the light of your Heart, dispel the darkness of my heart.
With the knowledge of your Heart, make my heart wise.
With the silence of your Heart, speak to my heart.
With the will of your Heart, govern my heart.
With the patience of your Heart, support my heart.
With the zeal of your Heart, set my heart on fire.
With the obedience of your Heart, make my heart submit.
With the constancy of your Heart, keep my heart faithful.
With the fortitude of your Heart, sustain my vocation.

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Regnum Christi Spirituality Center Uncle Eddy

St Justin Martyr

/ Uncle Eddy

Dear Tyrone,

Well, your last note seems to indicate that you have finally learned your lesson.  I won’t point out how long this abandoned and imprisoned uncle has been trying to teach it to you; I will just breathe a sigh of relief that it finally got taught: “Conversion by concussion” doesn’t work.  Christ didn’t use that method, the Church doesn’t use it, and so you should take the hint.  You can’t FORCE someone into loving God; you just can’t.  So it’s useless to get into heated arguments with people.  It’s worse than useless; it’s self-defeating.  Name one time that a heated argument has produced anything other than anger, frustration, and resentment.  That’s all they’re good for.  Period.  The proper way to engage in discussions is with “meekness and humility”, as Our Lord put it.  And the great thing about it is that we can AFFORD to be meek and humble, because the truth really is on our side, so in the end, if our MANNERS don’t alienate the people we’re trying to convince, they will be won over.  Today’s saint was a great example of this.

Before St Justin came around, the Christians kept their doctrine off the public radar screen; they gained converts only by one-on-one exchanges, in the safety of private conversations.  St Justin, however, was convinced that many more Romans would embrace Christ if Christians made an effort to publicize their faith and their practices.

He himself, for example, had been haplessly searching for the truth about God as he tried out every school of philosophy and religion that the Roman Empire had to offer.  Only a chance encounter with an old man on a beach spurred him to look into the teachings of Christ.  Now, if he had found the truth he was so avidly seeking in the doctrines of Christ, he argued, surely the same process could work for many others.  Besides, he did not want to be held responsible before God for hoarding the truth that leads to salvation.

So he published explanations of Christian doctrine, worship, and morals (his two great “Apologies” – from the Greek for “explanation”), opened a school for Christian philosophy, and traveled the Empire engaging prominent teachers and philosophers in discussions about the faith.  His efforts gave a vital boost to the Church in the Age of Persecutions.  They also put his neck on the chopping block.

When he was turned in to the Roman prefect by one of his disgruntled opponents (academic envy is not something unique to modern times, you know), he refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods, boldly affirming (together with six other Christians on trial with him), “We ask nothing better than to suffer for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and so to be saved.”  They all lost their heads, and found heaven.

Tirelessly and boldly he proclaimed the truth, but it was not out of fear or desperation.  It was out of sincere love for Christ and others, and that love converted more souls than any number of “concussions” would have done.  So don’t fret and don’t go “toe-to-toe”; control yourself and be a drop of honey – you’ll catch more flies that way than you would with a whole barrel full of vinegar, as St Francis de Sales used to say.

Your devoted uncle,

Eddy

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Alex Kucera

Atlanta

Alex Kucera has lived in Atlanta, GA, for the last 46 years. He is one of 9 children, married to his wife Karmen, and has 3 girls, one grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Alex joined Regnum Christi in 2007. Out of the gate, he joined the Helping Hands Medical Missions apostolate and is still participating today with the Ghana Friendship Mission.

In 2009, Alex was asked to be the Atlanta RC Renewal Coordinator for the Atlanta Locality to help the RC members with the RC renewal process. Alex became a Group Leader in 2012 for four of the Atlanta Men’s Section Teams and continues today. Running in parallel, in 2013, Alex became a Team Leader and shepherded a large team of good men.

Alex was honored to be the Atlanta Mission Coordinator between 2010 to 2022 (12 years), coordinating 5-8 Holy Week Mission teams across Georgia. He also created and coordinated missions at a parish in Athens, GA, for 9 years. Alex continues to coordinate Holy Week Missions, Advent Missions, and Monthly missions at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Cumming, GA.

From 2016 to 2022, Alex also served as the Men’s Section Assistant in Atlanta. He loved working with the Men’s Section Director, the Legionaries, Consecrated, and Women’s Section leadership teams.

Alex is exceptionally grateful to the Legionaries, Consecrated, and many RC members who he’s journeyed shoulder to shoulder, growing his relationship with Christ and others along the way. He knows that there is only one way, that’s Christ’s Way, with others!