Sacred Heart of Jesus

1Just as the morning passes, so has the king of Israel passed by. For Israel was a child and I loved him; and out of Egypt I called my son.

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3And I was like a foster father to Ephraim. I carried them in my arms. And they did not know that I healed them. 4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love. And I will be to them like one who raises the yoke over their jaws. And I will reach down to him so that he may eat.

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8How will I provide for you, Ephraim; how will I protect you, Israel? How will I provide for you as for Adam; will I set you like Zeboiim? My heart has changed within me; together with my regret, it has been stirred up. 9I will not act on the fury of my wrath. I will not turn back to utterly destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Divine in your midst, and I will not advance upon the city.

2Behold, God is my savior, I will act faithfully, and I will not be afraid. For the Lord is my strength and my praise, and he has become my salvation.”

3You will draw water with gladness from the fountains of the Savior.

4And you will say in that day: “Confess the Lord, and invoke his name! Make his plans known among the peoples! Remember that his name is exalted!

5Sing to the Lord, for he has acted magnificently! Announce it to the whole world!

6Exult and give praise, O habitation of Zion! For the Great One, the Holy One of Israel, is in your midst!”

8Although I am the least of all the saints, I have been given this grace: to evangelize among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9and to enlighten everyone concerning the dispensation of the mystery, hidden before the ages in God who created all things, 10so that the manifold wisdom of God may become well-known to the principalities and powers in the heavens, through the Church, 11according to that timeless purpose, which he has formed in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12In him we trust, and so we approach with confidence, through his faith.

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14By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name. 16And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man, 17so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. 18So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth 19of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

31Then the Jews, because it was the preparation day, so that the bodies would not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), they petitioned Pilate in order that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away. 32Therefore, the soldiers approached, and, indeed, they broke the legs of the first one, and of the other who was crucified with him. 33But after they had approached Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34Instead, one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance, and immediately there went out blood and water. 35And he who saw this has offered testimony, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he speaks the truth, so that you also may believe. 36For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “You shall not break a bone of him.” 37And again, another Scripture says: “They shall look upon him, whom they have pierced.”