It was appropriate that the blessing of the icon took place in the last week of Advent. Our parish priest did the honours and afterwards we had an excellent supper to celebrate. It was a simple, but moving little ceremony which meant so much our family. We asked God to: 'Bless and make holy this icon created in honour and in remembrance of Your Sacred Heart. [And to] Sanctify all who come before it in prayer.'
And this line captured for us what the icon is ultimately is for: to act as a focus for prayer for all those who call upon the Lord in true faith and with a pure heart.
With the icon now blessed it feels somehow far more part of the family!
Our Lord's Heart is indeed ineffably beautiful and satisfying: it exhausts all reality and answers all the soul's needs. The very thought of it is almost more than the mind can compass. Teilhard de Chardin S.J.
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