The Heart

The Heart (2013)

The heart is an internal organ of the body.

The heart’s functions in the body are not usually visible; we are always almost unaware of the enormity of its work.

Heart serves as a pump for blood to the whole body.

Heart also sends blood supply to the head, without which there is no reasoning.

Without blood circulation, it is impossible for the body to survive, thus , without,  the continuous working of the heart ,which pumps blood, it is impossible for the body to survive.

The heart removes waste blood, sends it to the lungs to be reoxygenated.

Inasmuch as grace perfects nature:

The Sacred Heart works in an ‘as gentle as silence’ manner.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart keep devotees humble and simple, which enables them get virtually everything they ask of the Lord.

It is the Blood of Christ that saves, but without devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the effect of the Precious Blood would not be felt by man, and humanity would die in their sins.

The heads and leaders of the church receive their strengths from simple souls who are devoted to the Sacred Heart.

Love is a verb, the Sacred Heart is the source of love, and qualities such as reverence, kindness, compassion, wisdom, conciliation and forgiveness are products of devotions to the Sacred Heart.

Those devoted to the Sacred Heart do not suffer for their sins, for they bathe their sins in the Precious Blood and reoxygenate their vigours in the Holy Spirit.

And inasmuch as glory perfects grace:

Christ suffered a ’heart attack’ on the cross, and this was a source of grace and mercy for the whole world, and this also becomes the source of  perpetual pumping of precious blood and water for the human race, and for the glorification of Christ.

Any attack on a devotee of the Sacred Heart can only foster his glory and herald grace and mercy for posterity.

Happy feast of the Sacred Heart!

The Sacred Heart of Jesus ( Being Presentation Given During the 2015 MArIA Program )

Physiological perspectives of the Sacred Heart.

St Theresa of Jesus advised the necessity of approaching Christ through His humanity.

The Body of Christ is the physical dynamic of all that is seen and unseen of the entire cosmos.

The Sun is considered the centre of the universe; the heart is considered the centre of the body.

Scientifically, the heart is the centre of our circulatory system; it is solely responsible for pumping blood into the entire system.

It’s malfunctioning is the no 1 cause of death in the world.

My Sacred Heart Devotion History

This started at St Christopher's Sango where the group is nothing but a strong unchallenged political force in the church.

It is solely a societal arena for parties, meetings, food and booze.

Getting to St Mary’s Ayetoro, things was a bit different, the party factor was on a lower scale, and the political genius in church was challenged by other parties.

I got to realise the Sacred Heart Society was also about adoration, about solemn admission, about enthronement.

I started observing the First Friday devotion in Oshogbo.

Our race as a family into the actuality of the Sacred Heart did commence with the enthronement of Sacred Heart in 1994 at the home in Oke-Onitea.

And I shall never forget the personal comforting presence I felt of Christ when Akinkunmi died in the year 1996.

The full blast – for me – of my devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was when I enthroned Him into my home in September 2011, just after Daddy had departed and few days after my son was baptised.

For many reasons and testimonies, I consider this devotion as Daddy’s legacy for us and his gift to us about what has saved him.

This is summed up in the statement we all know Daddy lived and died for “Love, don’t hate”

The Theology of the Sacred Heart.

What was in the mystery of the blood and water that made John swear he was speaking the truth?

What was in his side that Thomas touched that made him cry ‘My Lord and my God’?

In this heart lies the depth of the mystery of creation.

In this heart begins the birth of creation.

From this heart are the sacraments born.

On this heart is borne the Divine Mercy which is the ultimate covenant of God on us .

The Church and the Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart is Christ Himself.

No true devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that does not translate to the love of the Eucharist.

From the Sacred Heart of Jesus is borne the Divine Mercy devotion. None can be separated from the other.

An extraordinary jubilee of Divine Mercy is promulgated by the Pope , to start later in the year.

Christ calls us to win heaven at little cost.

What is in It for us?

I believe very strongly and I am convinced that:

Upon this devotion is the unity of both our individual families and our joint family depends.

Upon this devotion depends Daddy, Mummy and Kunmi’s positive influence.

Upon this devotion lies our joint shield and protection from all evils, principalities and harms.

On this devotion do our spiritual and material blessings depend.

Take not the providence of our individual family’s enthronement for granted, it is an act of Daddy from heaven.

 I write the above in spite of the guarantee 12 promises directly from Our Lord. The following are based on my direct experience.

Our part is to start simply by being devoted to the First Fridays and family consecration.

I can bet my life on its positive impact if we all join hands to do this. It works.

The Risk of Education

Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created...'. Unlike "the Jews who seek after signs,and the Greeks who seek after 'wisdom', we preach a crucified Christ....". I hate poverty, and my greatest passion is to destroy it, and- like one Nobel laureate puts it-to send it to the museum. But in place of 'Jews' we have in the majority today, Capitalistic Religions which exalt money, and go by 'The customer is always right', preaching what members would like to hear. On the other hand , the 'Greeks' today are Dogmatic and Presumptuous Scientism which does not see a truth outside that which is reasoned and tested around its sphere; from these hails the source of all incarnated technologies which stifle our minds. A 'crucified Christ' is not easily come by.A crucified Christ is Eductainment. It is where creativity begins, and only a mind that is not crippled by the powers that be, as dictated by Capitalistic Religions or Dogmatic Scientism could arrive at lasting creativity, such that we can only reach by passing through 'The Road Less Traveled'. I don't like suffering,but there is no other way to arrive at education, only through discipline, dedication, integrity and hard work can a man be truly taught. That is what I believe stifles our society: corruption, lies,lawlessness,mediocrity and sin abide too much, and actual education, which is a journey of experience is just not deep enough, the powers that be, sooner or later, take over. When poverty abounds, few have the maturity to take the opportunity to arrive at truth. Yoruba says:'Eni ebi npa, kii gbo iwaasu', meanwhile, Yoruba also says again' Iya o je o , o loo gbon, ta ni teacher e?'.
 We nee to Re-imagine. Like Starcomms would say : 'We speak your language'. We just need to reinvent new ways to communicate to the present day youths, workers and leaders, in the language of this age. Everybody knows that, you'll say. But are we all not just powerless now? Who has succeeded in communicating the whole truth in the language of our times? While we confess our weakness and powerlessness,we should not stop trying and praying to the Holy Spirit, who alone can truly create and recreate. Recreation simply means, working and catching fun at the same time; but to arrive at this, we must be educated, and to be truly educated, we must pass through the sufferings of life.