Cor Jesu Sacratissimum: From Secularism and the New Age to Christendom Renewed by Roger Buck

Author:Roger Buck [Buck, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621382317
Amazon: 1621382311
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2016-12-05T23:00:00+00:00

Remember, most gracious Lord for Thy Son’s sake, all those whose lot He shared on earth: the poor, the workpeople, the lonely, the oppressed. He is the man of sorrows gathering in Himself His people´s griefs and bearing all human burdens in His Heart. He is sorrowful with the sorrowful, hungry with those that hunger, in pain with those who suffer pain. His soul responds by sympathy and love to every secret misery and silent agony. His heart-beats are as echoes to every pain and pang and cry of woe. For His sake, O God! For His sake whose life is one with ours, let comfort and courage be carried everywhere to every struggling soul, by the ministry of Angels and of men, from the copious treasures of the Eternal Sacrifice wherein is all the hope of all mankind.

He is in pain with all those who suffer pain! Here is the universe of difference, separating the Christian Mystery from the New Age.

Now His Heart—bearing Infinite Love—can bear the agony of every fallen soul. He bears what our tiny, finite hearts cannot begin to bear. For normally, our tiny hearts are only called to carry the sufferings of those closest to us: our own family and friends. And how our hardened hearts fail even in this! Yet the whole of humanity constitutes His family, His friends. But as one draws closer to His Sacred Heart, one’s own fallen heart may begin to feel more tenderly (if only a little) the pain of humanity: His family, His friends. By His Mercy, one starts to weep for the world.

All this I invoke, precisely because it runs so counter to my former New Age preoccupations. Certainly, at Findhorn, I never aspired to weep for the world! Such a thing was alien to my theosophical aspirations to remain firmly in control. Clearly, my old New Age friends notice a change in me and they sometimes think I have become morose, filled by unhealthy angst. But I am grateful for what they notice. For that change has come through His Mystical Body—the Church.

Now, what is it to feel—at least, start to feel—the tears of the world? Is this not the beginning of moral gravity? The answer is yes—provided this feeling leads neither to ranting, nor recrimination. For if one registers the world agony in a way that is neither bitter, nor sentimental, nor despairing, but rather fosters creative action on behalf of the world—this has everything to do with moral gravity.

Would it be pompous of me, Lector, to suggest I have developed a deepened moral gravity since my New Age days? It would be pompous indeed! For I, alone, have developed nothing whatsoever! To think like this remains Pelagian. It denies the One who said: “Without me, you can do nothing” (John 15). Still, one should gratefully acknowledge the birth of new attitudes in one’s soul, even if these attitudes remain like tender shoots, frail and undeveloped. But when one is Catholic and not Pelagian, one will regard these tender shoots and say: “Not I, but Christ in me.

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