Friday | June 07, 2024
Ephesians 3:19
…to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Meeting at the Dugout
These are among my favorite verses in Scripture. At 16, during free time at a teen retreat, I wandered to the ballfields behind church where I used to play softball. I sat on the dugout bench with my new pocket-sized New Testament and turned to a random page—today’s reading from Ephesians.
Suddenly, God was there on that bench—a divine encounter as the Holy Spirit opened my heart to the “love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.” Filled with the “fullness” of God, I knew the breadth, length, height and depth of Christ’s love for me. It was a moment. And a transformational shift from head-knowledge to heart-knowledge of God.
Jesus is in search of our hearts. His loving heart works in mysterious ways, but his Presence is manifest in Scripture and the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. May we know him, trust him and live for him.
- Pat Gohn
Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9 • Isaiah 12:2-6 • Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 • John 19:31-37/em>
