Fr. Pierre Ingram's Podcasts

In this homily for Divine Mercy Sunday, Fr. Pierre discusses the heart of Jesus as the secret key that unlocks the mysteries of the Father's redemptive love for us. Friends share secrets with each other. What Jesus shares with Thomas and his other friends in the Upper Room today is his most intimate secret: his burning, thorn-crowned, crucified, pierced Heart. It's that Heart that saved the world. This is what Christianity is all about. There's no way to make sense of it all without this. This is the secret key that unlocks the mysteries of God, and the mysteries of the world he put us in. The Heart of Jesus is like a divine-and-human fusion reactor that has enough power to transform the whole created universe. And that transformation begins when we say yes to the love that is in his Heart. The visible Heart of our Savior is the perfect manifestation, in space and time, of an invisible Heart, the Heart of his Father. The Father's Heart is full of a love for us that is: • warm • tender • intensely personal (n