In the book (play, movie) The Color Purple the main character, Celie, is explaining to her friend, Shug, that her whole life she had been trying to do things to obtain God’s love — saying her prayers, keeping the commandments, acting kindly — but it didn’t seem to be working. Shug explained that she had things backwards. We don’t have to do anything to get God’s love. God loves us already. Look at something as simple as the color purple in the field and you can see that the signs of God’s love are all around us. The Feat of the Sacred Heart was added to the Church’s calender in the nineteenth century because we need to be reminded that we have God’s love already — unasked and unearned. The Heart of Jesus symbolizes the love showers down upon us. Nothing we can do to earn it. Nothing that we do can cause us to lose it. God’s love is more constant than gravity.
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By Church Staff
