Ash Wednesday

 

Rend your hearts, not your garments. Joel 2:13

Usually during Lent, we think about things we can give up.

Usually sweets or meat.

Some people may choose to Fast.

While all of these things are good,

The Prophet Joel reminds us to

Rend our hearts, not our garments.

The ancient people of Israel use to tear or rend their garments as a sign of sorrow for their sins.

But often their Hearts would stay the same.

What good is it to Fast or abstain from sweets or meat,

If our hearts do not change;

Jesus tore open His Sacred Heart on the cross when a sword pierced it.

And from it flowed His Redeeming love.

We must rend our hearts,

Tear them open and let out all of the ill will and sins

That are in them.

Empty our hearts rather than our stomachs.

So that they might be filled with the Love and Mercy and Compassion of God.

And then our hearts will be Gentle and Humble

Like the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

God Bless