I love this last of the post-Easter feasts that is, to me, a final meditation on the twin-dogmatic feasts (Trinity/Corpus Christi). Those dogmatic feasts proclaim that the Paschal Mystery, at heart, offers to us the mind-blowing revelation of God-as-Three, and the sacramental gift of radically real (con-substantial) participation in the life of the Three-in-One.
Today's feast says that the revelation and the gift both have their epicenter in the divine-human Heart of Jesus Christ - they are the supreme and final gift of God's love that revealed its depths at the very moment humanity was given chance to vent its full fury against God.
Let us rejoice in this day!
A poem in His honor:
O Heart All-Burning!
Deep well, water's source-less store;
soaring vastness, dark Mountain,
piercing heights, infinite Roar:
Gideon, lap up this mystic Fountain!
Searing furnace, un-consuming Flame
devouring all my tinder, harvest-weeds;
your kindling wood within, Rood-named
scatters Thy Passion's bloodied seeds:
O Fertile Flame, set ablaze love untamed.
Amen.
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