Thank you for visiting Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. We are a Catholic husband and wife who seek to draw inspiration from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Here you will find testimony to a love affair. It is a love affair with the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Our Lord and Our Lady. And it is a love affair with the Tradition of the Unam Sanctam Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam and a Tradition which must be guarded, cherished and preserved – now as ever – at this point of crisis of Western civilisation.
The Crisis of the West! Increasingly the West is cut off from the font of its civilisation, the Mystery of Christ. In the Catholic cradle of Western civilisation, this Mystery once flourished: People knew they were fallen and turned with humility to the Supernatural Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as He became present in the Sacraments.
But the Mystery becomes lost, as the Tradition decays. In the past, the man who is now our beloved Holy Father has expressed concern, lest Catholicism become a “clone” of Protestantism. Yet in many instances, the Catholic Church loses her identity, becoming ever more like a Protestant congregation, failing to revere the Living Mystery at the Heart of Her Sacraments …
And Christianity becomes lost in the world at large. The contemporary society becomes ever more materialistic and devoid of the sense of the Supernatural. Or it turns to New Age mysteries, denying Christ and His Church.
The results are a world ever more materialist, capitalist, so often heartless and lacking social justice. And now this brutal, unsustainable civilisation literally begins to burn, as massive ecological degradation sets in everywhere…
Yet “the light shines in the darkness” and the Heart of the World and the Heart of the Church, the Cor Jesu Sacratissimum continues to offer moral courage, hope, joy, strength, meaning and more, infinitely, inexpressably, unfathomably more …
These are indications of the chief concerns of this site, as well as our hearts. Here it must be said that we are neither theologians, nor especially qualified academically. Yet it is our prayer that in some small way, our reflections here – as well as a soon-to-be-developed collection of devotions, images and other resources – can support and stimulate faith and enquiry amongst a community of unknown friends and fellow wayfarers who join us in concern and in work for the future of the World and the Church.
For it is also our continuous prayer that the Mystery at the heart of Western Civilisation – that of the Sacrifice on Calvary – can be saved. It is our belief that if it can be saved, there is hope for the World …
