Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome.
[00:00:07] Speaker C: It's the sixth Sunday of Easter, May 25, 2025.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Today we learn first about the society of the Sacred Heart.
[00:00:28] Speaker C: How did Madeleine Sophie Barrett receive a.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Superior education when Catholic schools and churches were shut down in France during the French Revolution?
It so happened her older brother Louis, who was a priest and also her godfather, was committed to making sure she had an opportunity to learn.
Still a child when the French revolution began in 1789, Madeline Sophie learned Latin, Greek, mathematics, history and theology from her brother.
Father Louis was strict, but Madeline Sophie excelled in her studies.
Devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and motivated by the Lord's immense love for humanity, Madeline Sophie believes she was called to educate other girls in a comparable way, one that blended academic excellence with devotion to Christ.
Just before her 21st birthday, she made her first vows, along with a few friends.
She and these friends were members of the newly founded Society of the Sacred Heart.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: Its motto, Cor unum et anima una incord Jesuit.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: One heart and one soul in the Heart of Jesus.
The Society of the Sacred Heart affirmed the mission to make known the love of God revealed in the heart of Jesus.
Under her leadership, the Society of the Sacred Heart grew quickly throughout Europe and the United States.
At one point, the society included 3,000 women around the world. Today, the sisters, who use the designation of RSCJ, carry out their ministry in 41 countries.
On this day 160 years ago, Madeline Sophie Barrett, religious of The Sacred Heart RSCJ died at the age of 85.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: She was canonized by Pope Pius the 11th in 1925.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Today, the church celebrates the feast of Saint Madeline Sophie Barrett.
Now for today's reflection.
[00:03:09] Speaker C: The unbroken circle.
Sometimes our image of Jesus dying, rising and ascending to heaven is like Voyager 1 going into space.
Jesus dies, rises and ascends to the right hand of the Father and never returns.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: He sends occasional signals, but from a distance.
Like the popular song, God is watching us from a distance.
But in today's gospel, Jesus says, whoever loves me will keep my word and my father will love them and we will come to them and make our dwelling with them.
Jesus says, I am going away and I will come back to you.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: The dying, rising, ascending of Jesus Is a whole circle. The Passover of Jesus didn't end with the arc of his ascension upward.
He promised to be with us in the Eucharist and through his own spirit.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: I am going away and I will come back to you.
The circle is completed in us. He did come back to stay. He did it for the early members.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Of the church at Pentecost when he.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: Poured his spirit upon them.
He does it for us in baptism and confirmation.
Jesus through his spirit is within us, around us.
We can't see his spirit but we can't see radio waves either even though.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: They're in the air all around us.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: And there's more. Jesus invites us to join him in going to the Father and yet still living here on earth.
That is exactly what we do at Eucharist.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: When the gifts of bread and wine are placed on the altar table they.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: Represent us in the Eucharistic prayer. The action of Christ in his dying, rising, ascending is made present to us.
We join with him in going to God and giving ourselves entirely to God.
In one of the eucharistic prayers the priest says accept us all together with your beloved Son.
Jesus takes us with him and yet.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: We continue here on earth as new people, transformed daughters and sons of God.
[00:06:09] Speaker C: Living a different kind of life.
