Follow His Heart

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Washington DC. After the March, I stopped here just to see if it was open. Not only was it open, but there was adoration and confession going on! This turned out to be a palpable experience of being drawn nearer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as He drew me nearer to His Father.

 

 “Brethren, I beg you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are.” -Galatians 4:12

These words, spoken here by Saint Paul, are also Jesus’s words to us. Jesus Christ has drawn near to us that He might draw us near to the Father. Though He is the infinite and all-powerful God, He has come to us in the weakness and frustration that is human flesh; in tiredness, sore pains, finite time, dealing with people who get on our nerves, and limited communication. He has come in the smallest and weakest states, from an innocent child in the womb of Mary, to a man being tortured and executed though He was falsely convicted of sin. He still does this as He presents Himself in the Eucharist where we can adore Him… or spit upon Him, ignore Him.

In doing all this, Jesus has become as we are, so that we can become like Him, and go with Him to the Father. He teaches out His hand and His heart in Divine Mercy for us to join with Him in eternal and irremovable faith, hope, and love; to join with Him in a joyful and complete union with the Father.

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” -John 15: 9-11

I have recently completed a pilgrimage made to the March for Life of 2025 (which is why this blog post is a little late). This trip was a pilgrimage that was made with Christ at every step: through praying on the bus, upbuilding conversation with brother seminarians, seeing the beauty of God in churches and scenery, and in marching and praying for the end to abortion. In going on pilgrimage for the sake of the human gift of life, God granted me many wonderful moments— challenging moments along with moments of difficulty— of being immersed into His Sacred Heart. His heart is our source of Divine Mercy that brings us to every greater relationship with God, and we are called to share in the mission of His heart, to pray for and guide souls to be reconciled to the Father.

Not everyone knows the hope that is found in union with Christ, in abiding in His heart of mercy as He brings us to the Father. Many do not know that we have been given life to live for this purpose, many do not know that there is joy found in this path. Because of this, many do not see any problem with the destruction of life, of the lives of those who are called to beautiful union with Christ. 

We, with Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, must pray for our souls and for the souls of all, that we may all meekly and zealously trust in the Divine Mercy that God wants for us all through His Sacred Heart. Souls will be saved through this gift of love, and we can join with Christ in praying that all souls may rest, now and forever, in the eternal life of the Father.