Broken To Be Shared

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There is so much indeed to celebrate when it comes to matters of the heart. The heart of Jesus is capable of going beyond the usual seeing and looks instead the other with the eyes of love. This same heart crucified Him and yet it is also this same heart that conquered humanity. The celebration reminded us that the heart is capable of looking at the others beyond what the eyes can see. It is a heart that is capable of sacrifice.

In our beautiful liturgy we hear the priest repeat what Jesus said at the last supper, “on the night he was betrayed he took bread, give you thanks and broke the bread and shared it to his disciples, saying, ‘take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my body which will be given up for you.’” O how beautiful and powerful, such ultimate act of love! How is it that He who was broken by betrayal on that very night was capable of sharing himself? O holy night indeed! Broken by betrayal, His only reply was breaking Himself so He can be shared.

The answer to brokenness is to be broken ourselves. Isn’t if there are more people and there’s only a handful of bread, the bread has to be broken so it can be shared for all. We are broken in order to be shared. So when nights of brokenness come and our hearts shattered and hope gone, we look up to Him and take comfort of the fact that he broke Himself in order to be shared.

A heart willing to be broken for others can change the world.

by aats