Skip to content
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Instagram
Consecrated Hearts
For love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Spiritual Lights
  • Hearts Ablaze
  • Praying in the Garden
    • Light a Candle
  • Ocean of Mercy
  • About
    • Artwork
  • Consecration
Home Archive by category "Spiritual Lights"

Category: Spiritual Lights

“He knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”

“He knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”

From the “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas message by Pope Francis, on December 25, 2022: He comes among us in silence and in the dark of night, because the word of God needs no spotlights or loud human voices. He is Himself the Word that gives life its meaning, He is…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts December 31, 2022 January 1, 2023Spiritual Lights 0

A Sign of Contradiction to the World

A Sign of Contradiction to the World

“When those who despised Christ behold His majesty and glory (see Luke 21:27), consider how great their shame will be! For they did not want to follow Him and they killed Him (putting Him to death on the Cross like the wickedest of criminals). On the contrary, what joy will…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts November 30, 2022 December 5, 2022Spiritual Lights 0

A Childlike Spirit

A Childlike Spirit

An excerpt from “Marian Consecration for Children” by Dr. Carrie Gress: Several times in the Bible, we hear how much Jesus loved children and how important children are in God’s kingdom. He says things like “unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts October 31, 2022 November 1, 2022Spiritual Lights 0

“If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”

“If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”

“There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts September 29, 2022 October 1, 2022Spiritual Lights 0

A Living Faith that Touches the Heart of Jesus

A Living Faith that Touches the Heart of Jesus

Luke 8:43-48 As He went, the people pressed round Him. And a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians and could not be healed by any one, came up behind Him, and touched the fringe of His garment;…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts June 30, 2022 July 9, 2022Spiritual Lights 0

“A real Christian is Christified.”

“A real Christian is Christified.”

From the book “The Visions of the Children” by Janice T. Connell: JANICE T. CONNELL: How do we choose Jesus or His Mother Mary? Do you know? MIRJANA DRAGIČEVIĆ-SOLDO: Well, the Blessed Mother says that to choose Jesus, we must be like Him. JANICE: Otherwise we won’t be able to…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts May 31, 2022 May 31, 2022Spiritual Lights 0

Providence and Prayer

Providence and Prayer

(from “Lift Up Your Heart” by Venerable Fulton J. Sheen) But as soon as prayer is suggested, there are those who will immediately retort: “Praying does no good.” This statement has an element of truth in certain cases: not theological truth, but psychological truth. When it is said by those…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts October 31, 2021 November 1, 2021Spiritual Lights 0

“To obey is to make of our wills an offering to God.”

“To Obey is to make of our wills an offering to God.”

(an excerpt from “Humility of Heart” by Father Cajetan Mary da Bergamo) In reality, the malice of pride lies in the practical contempt which we show for God’s Will by disobeying it. Thus it is, says St. Augustine, there is pride in every sin committed, “by which we despise the…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts September 30, 2021 October 1, 2021Spiritual Lights 0

The Light of the Immaculata

The Light of the Immaculata

From a homily by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: We will dwell a while on this name, which is, rightly interpreted, “Star of the Sea,” and is therefore admirably appropriate to the Virgin Mother. Fitly is she compared to a star, which, in giving forth its light, suffers no waning, since…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts August 31, 2021 August 31, 2021Spiritual Lights 0

Grant me the freedom of those who live for heaven

Grant me the freedom of those who live for heaven

An excerpt from “My Daily Bread” by Father Anthony J. Paones, S.J. Man’s True Good CHRIST:My child, often it is safer for a man not to have many consolations and pleasures in his earthly life. Try to grasp this truth, so that you may not become sad and depressed when…

Continue reading

consecratedhearts June 29, 2021 July 1, 2021Spiritual Lights 0
12345
  • Recent Posts

    • “Her maternal love desires to present each one of her children to Jesus”
    • “He knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”
    • A Sign of Contradiction to the World
    • A Childlike Spirit
    • “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”
Art Copyright © 2015-2023 Consecrated Hearts