Word Made Flesh: Meditations of the Saints on the Sacred Heart

Enter into the mystery of Divine Love with The Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Harmony of Love—a poetic meditation that reveals how devotion to the Heart of Christ brings beauty, proportion, and peace to a dissonant world. The Sacred Heart of Jesus inspires poetry. The writing of the saints is testimony to this fact. The saints may have not written on the Sacred Heart in the form of poetry, but their words, inspired by the Holy Spirit and expressed with great love and devotion, read as if they were. There is longing, desire, peace, joy, love in their words, expressed in such ways as to inspire us to enter into the mystery of the Sacred Heart.  Devotion is a poetical practice; it involves entering into a mystery. Poetry helps us enter into mystery through prayer, just as the psalms do. As St. John Henry Newman says, poetry “demands, as its primary condition, that we should not put ourselves above the objects in which it resides, but at their feet; that we should feel them to be