Catholic Homilies By Fr Linus Clovis

Today we celebrate the feast of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. A feast that reminds us of His great love, His inexpressible love for us, a love where He was ready and willing and indeed laid down His life. ‘A man’ He says ‘can have no great love, than to lay down his life for his friends.’ But He’s done even that which is great and that which is greater and He’s done greatest of all; for He didn’t just lay down His life for His friends but even for His enemies. As St. Paul says, “While we were yet enemies, God sent His Son”. This love of Christ is something that we ought in gratitude alone, we ought to return and yet it is so difficult for us, because we still cling to things that do not lead us to Him. Who, St. Paul says can save us from this body of death. No one except Christ Jesus, so even though our inclinations and our passions and our desires belong to this world, yet we hope we have that faith in Christ’s love for us that He will draw us back to Himself even against our inclinations, desires and pl