Posted April 3, 2015 by Christina Chase1 Comment doctrine

His Heart Was Pierced

When the Roman soldier drove a lance up into the side of Christ’s body on the Cross, blood and water poured forth from His pierced heart. At that same moment, the earth itself trembled and the very rocks split. The veil in the Holy of Holies was torn asunder, exposing the most sacred of sacred places to the outside world. We are even told that graves opened up and the holy people who had been buried there rose, living again. When some of the soldiers saw how Christ died, feeling the very ground quaking beneath them, they exclaimed, their eyes open wide, “Truly, this was the Son of God!”

This is how God Incarnate brings Redemption and Salvation. His Sacred Heart is made accessible and He pours His love and mercy out upon us – and all Creation is shaken up, forever changed. Now is torn away the veil between human and divine, between the dead and the living – between doubt and faith.

… But not all will choose to enter the opened way….

(See Matthew 27:51-52 and John 19:34, 37)

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Although crippled by disease, I'm fully alive in love. I write about the terrible beauty and sacred wonder of life, while living with physical disability and severe dependency. A revert to the Catholic faith through atheism, I'm not afraid to ask life's big questions. I explore what it means to be fully human through my weekly blog and have written a book: It's Good to Be Here, published by Sophia Institute Press.