Jesus who loves with a human heart
- Nearest to the Father’s heart and makes him known.
What if we said that the feast of the Sacred Heart is the feast of Jesus who loves with a human heart, a feeling Jesus?
It was intended to put this post on the site at the time of the Feast – but so many photos of Sacred Heart Day, Sydney. Melbourne, Vietnam arrived.
St Ignatius Loyola recommended that, as we contemplate a Gospel story, we enter into it, become part of the story, immersed in the experience, close to Jesus, looking at him, listening to him.
Art enables us to be there. The Jesus films invite us to be there, to look at Jesus there, listening to him. That is what we did at our Blackburn celebration. We were with Jesus and Mary at Nazareth (from The Passion of the Christ). We listened to Jesus tell the story of the parable of the Prodigal Son, Robert Powell as Jesus of Nazareth, and, at the end, Peter the Fisherman, the older brother, with Matthew the tax-collector, the younger brother, reconciled.
Many Jesus clips can be easily downloaded from YouTube. There are DVD copies. Some on streaming. Put them on your USB stick, connect the stick to the computer and the sound and projection system and there you are.
Some suggestions
Gospel According to Matthew
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus 1979
Jesus of Montreal
Jesus 1999
Gospel of John 2003
We can see and hear Jesus loving with a human heart – and making the heart of God known.
