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l^o^e of tl|e (Sxacred l^eart. 
“Love’s symbol true thou art. 
Rose of the Sacred Heart!” 
Jesus’ Heart Still Throbbing With Love 
For Each of Us. 
“And the tender voice sobs like a balm: 
This Heart was pierced for thee!’ 
For me, great God, for mef 
Yes, enter in my love, my lamb, 
This Heart ivas pierced for thee!” 
— Anon. 
? HE essence of God is charity, and the essence of God is Himself. God 
is Charity; and that Charity was Incarnate, and that Charity came 
and was passible among men. He came to weep over the sins of men, to 
weep at the grave of the dead, to weep over the sins of Jerusalem, to suffer, 
to hunger, to thirst, to be in agony, and to be crucified!—and all this He 
did and endured out of pure love for fallen man. Oh, let us frequently 
contemplate the Sacred Human Heart of Jesus now glorious in Heaven, 
still throbbing with love for each of us, and still mysteriously abiding 
amongst us, having “Compassion on the Multitude,” and saying, as it were, 
“ . . . I have loved thee with a love 
No mortal heart can show; 
A love so deep, my Saints in Heaven 
Its depths can never know; 
When pierced and wounded on the Cross, 
Man’s sin and doom were mine 
I loved thee with undying love, 
Immortal and divine! 
