We're called to offer up our whole hearts to Jesus every day in praise and thanksgiving: this blog is an open love-letter to Jesus, sharing appreciation for the good things he gives us every day!
"Sursum Corda! Lift up your hearts!"
How many times have we heard this instruction at Mass? How many times have we repeated the response ‘We lift them up to the Lord’? Have we ever stopped to ask what this means? Why, just before the priest offers the Holy Sacrifice, do we have this little dialogue between Him and the people? Lift up your hearts! We lift them up to the Lord!
The Mass is an offering, an act of sacrifice, where Jesus Christ in the person of His priest again offers Himself up to the Father for us and for our salvation; He makes us present, through time and space, at the foot of calvary, at the moment of His supreme offering. He is lifted up in the hands of His priest just as He was lifted up on the Cross, and he asks us; lift up your hearts! He asks us to offer our joys, our sufferings, our works, our failures, our whole lives and unite them with His offering in prayer so that we can have a share in His work as Saviour. So that our lives can be made holy by His offering and transformed into a fitting sacrifice to God. So that everyone we meet, and everything we use can likewise be lifted up, made holy, and conformed to His sacrifice. Sursum Corda is a command and an invitation; to take what we have, to take our relationships, and our works, and our thoughts, and lift them up in the sight of others for the Glory of God.
So often online content can get negative, or cynical, or polemical, and Catholic content is no different. I want this blog to be different; I want it to form part of my offering of thanksgiving to the Lord - an open love letter to Jesus Christ for all the good things we have been given in Him. I want to share pictures of beautiful liturgy, boost other Catholic content creators who are sharing the Lord's message, share poetry and reflections on the mysteries of Christ, and a space to share my sermons reflecting on how God's eternal Word continues to speak to us today!
This blog is my way of saying, as often as I post, Laudetur Jesus Christus! It is a window to my own heart, raised up to the Lord in sacrifice!
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