Newsletter #41 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel USA

Dear Friends and Benefactors,

We are speaking about the object of our devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary according to the spirit of St. John Eudes, In this newsletter let us learn how we should honor in the Mother of God three hearts united in one.

To understand more clearly what is meant by the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we must
recall that, just as we adore in the Most Holy Trinity and in the Incarnate Word three hearts which
form but one heart, so also do we honor in the Mother of God three hearts united in one.

The first heart to be found in the Blessed Trinity is the Son of God, who is the Heart of the
Eternal Father. The second is the Holy Ghost, who is the Heart of the Father and the Son. The third is Divine Love Itself, an adorable attribute of the divine essence, which can be considered as the Heart of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. These three hearts are only one single Heart, and with it the three eternal Persons love one another as They deserve to be loved. They also love mankind with an incomparable charity.

The first heart to be found in our Loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Godman, is His heart of flesh deified like all the other parts of His sacred body by its hypostatic union with the Divine Word. The second is His spiritual heart, that is, the superior faculties of His holy soul, eluding His memory, His understanding and His will, all most specially deified by the hypostatic union. The third is His divine heart, that is, the Holy Ghost, by whom His adorable humanity has always been animated in a higher degree than by its own soul and heart.

Thus, we have in Jesus Christ, the Godman, three hearts forming but one, because His divine Heart constituted the soul, the heart and the life of His spiritual and bodily hearts. Moreover, God has
established such perfect unity between them that these three hearts form only a single heart, filled
with infinite love towards the Blessed Trinity and with surpassing charity towards men.

The first heart of Mary, the Mother of God, is the heart of flesh enclosed in her virginal breast. Although this heart is corporeal, it is nevertheless completely spiritualized by the spirit of grace and the spirit of God which fill it.

The second heart is her spiritual heart, made God-like, not indeed by the hypostatic union as in the Incarnate Word, but by a superlative participation in the divine perfections. This heart is referred to by the words of the Holy Ghost: “All the glory of the king’s daughter is within,” (Ps. 44, 14) that is, has its origin in her heart and her inmost soul.

The third heart of Mary is divine and is truly God Himself, for it is none other than the love of God. This is the heart of which she says: “I sleep, and my heart watcheth,” (Cant. 5, 2) which means according to the interpretation of several holy Doctors: “While I grant necessary rest to my body, my Son Jesus, who is my Heart and whom I love like my own heart, is always watching over me and for me.”

These three hearts of the Mother of God constitute a single Heart, through the holiest and most
intimate union that ever was and will be, next to the hypostatic union. Of these three hearts, or
rather, of this single Heart, the Holy Ghost has said twice: “Mary kept all these words, pondering
them in her heart.” (Luke 2, 19 and 51)

Our Lady cherished the mysteries and marvels of her Son’s life, first, in her material and corporeal heart, the principle of life, the seat of love and of the other physical emotions. All the movements, every beat of this virginal heart, the material functions that it accomplished and the emotions that swayed it, existed solely for Jesus and for the things that concerned Him. Her love was spent in loving Him, her hatred in hating all that is contrary to Him, her joy in rejoicing in His glory and His grandeurs, her sorrow and compassion in bewailing His trials and sufferings. The same may be said of every emotion of her bodily heart.

Secondly, Mary kept all these things in her spiritual heart, that is, in the noblest part of her soul, in the inmost recesses of her mind. All the faculties of her soul were constantly applied to contemplating and adoring everything that took place in the life of her Beloved Son, down to the very smallest details.

Thirdly, Our Lady kept all these things in her divine Heart, that is, in her Son Jesus, who was the mind of her mind and the heart of her heart. He in turn kept them for her and recalled them to her mind when necessary, that she might feed herself in contemplation upon the mysteries of His life, rendering them due honor and adoration, and repeating them to the holy apostles and disciples, who were to preach them to the faithful. This then is what is meant by the admirable Heart of the beloved Mother of God.

Let us live the consecration to the Immaculate of Mary, that by entering into her heart, we may contemplate the sentiments of her incomparable heart, and thus become great saints!

Fr. Pancras Raja
Spiritual Director
November 11, 2020

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