“AT great expense and long journeys, men seek for themselves distinguished teachers, and consider it the highest honor and greatest joy to become their disciples and learn human sciences from their lips. At less cost and with less effort, we can find in the Sacred Heart of Jesus the surest teacher.
“This Divine Teacher gives us two kinds of lessons: some external, through the voice of the Church; others internal, through His secret inspiration. And what does He teach? Great truths, maxims of eternal life, counsels of salvation, and all-heavenly prudence. Instructed by this Divine Master, men and women of the Church of God, both unlettered and learned, have been seen to amaze and confound the wise, and to leave for future generations monuments of profound inner wisdom, acquired not in schools, but in communion and familiarity with this Sacred Heart.
“O Master of truth! O book ever open to those who wish to penetrate its secrets! O holy chair, where neither Moses nor the prophets, nor the philosophers, but God Himself, dictates lessons of truth to the disciples of His Heart!
“Open, O Lord, my heart, that I may docilely receive such divine teachings, and follow and practice them with all fidelity.
“Meditate for a few minutes.
“Who have you listened to until today, my soul? To teachers of seductive words who have led you down paths of perdition.
“Your teachers have been the world with its foolish maxims, the passions with their malignant suggestion, vanity, self-love, anger, and all other disordered appetites. These lessons I have heard, my Jesus, and these have made me deaf to the gentle counsels of your law. Speak now, Lord; speak, Divine Master, for your faithful disciple is listening. Speak to the depths of my heart from the depths of yours; let me hear your sweet voice, and learn from it the secrets of eternal life that no one else can teach me. From now on, I wish to be deaf to all those who until now have seduced or deceived me.
“O Divine Master! Admit me into the school of Your Heart, from which so many and such accomplished disciples have emerged! I am ignorant like a child; take pity on my ignorance, have compassion on my lack of understanding. I desire no other teacher than You: teach me, my Master, to always do Your holy will.”
— Fr. Felix Sardá y Salvany, Month of June Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(Translation here)
