In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,

that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins.

And the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. I ask your pardon for my sins,

and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father and Lord,

my guardian angel, intercede for me.

Well, today we celebrate the beautiful solemnity of the sacred heart of Jesus.

The treasure of the church, our consolation. And we can begin our meditation on this beautiful mystery of faith that gives all the faithful Christians such consolation.

Using the option number two of the colict of the mass of the sacred heart, we read and pray.

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 homage, paying him homage of our salvation, we may also offer worthy reparation.

The practical takeaway of this feast is that we draw from these infinite treasures of love.

This treasure of love, of forgiveness, of consolation, of peace and joy, short sanctity is for the taking, and we can never exhaust it.

We draw from his heart what Jesus revealed to the repentant Samaritan woman, that from the heart of Jesus,

we draw from the heart of Jesus, this living water.

Why is water an image?

It's an image of the Holy Spirit. It's an image of this life-giving water,

this special water, if you will, from the sacred heart that gives us total fulfillment and happiness that is perfected in the next life.

And if we draw enough water, we ourselves will be transmitters of this water to those many hearts that are empty of meaning, empty, of hope,

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