Our Venerable Father George, Bishop of Mitylene (829-42); Passing into Eternal Life (1919) of Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, First Superior of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate
Isaiah 65:8-16; Genesis 46:1-7; Proverbs 23:15-24:5
Great Fast Day 39. According to liturgical prescriptions, the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated today.
Read Proverbs 23:15-24:5
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
The Divine Word of God speaks to us today asking from us to have the central place in our lives: “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.” (Proverbs 23:26). We were created not only to be with the Lord, but to have Him enthroned in our heart. For this reason our heart is empty until it is filled with the Divine. We may try to enthrone all sorts of things from this world in our hearts, but nothing satisfies unless we enthrone the One for whom our hearts are created for.
St. Augustin says, “If you don’t give yourself, you will lose yourself… Now listen to what charity says to you, speaking through the mouth of wisdom: “Give me your heart, son. Give me,” she says. Give her what? “Your heart, son.” It was ill when it was with you, when you kept it to yourself. You were being pulled this way and that by toys and trifles and wanton, destructive loves. Take your heart away from all that. Where are you to drag it to, where are you to put it? “Give me your heart,” she says. “Let it be mine, and it won’t be lost to you.”
We find ourselves when we give ourselves away to the Lord. Give me your heart says the Lord.