From Cross, by grace, His sacrifice
For every heart will come within
As on His Cross He paid the price:
Delivers us from all our sins.
Within is where we must be cleansed
That actions, words are made clean too,
As each of us becomes His lens
So others can through us Him view.
As poor in spirit we become,
With open hearts we welcome Him;
His Sacred Heart through His Cross comes
With life from Him who’s always been.
His Resurrection we can taste
As all the world is new we see,
And all around we see His face
In new creation comes to be.
His Risen Life comes through His Cross—
Creation at its heart transformed—
As we eat Body, Blood He lost
So we to Him can be conformed,
For we were lost but now are found—
Our hearts within are purified—
In Sacred Heart with Him we’re bound:
His Blood within us sanctifies.
SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS