Christ Dwells in Our Hearts

By Sr. Mary Valerie Schneider
June 11, 2021

Today’s beautiful reading from Ephesians (3:8-12, 14-19) states that Christ dwells in our hearts. Yet the feast celebrates our need to reside in Christ’s heart, to take on his heart, to learn from Jesus Christ who is meek and humble of heart. But the dwelling is reciprocal. Christ’s dwelling in us gives us the strength to know “the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

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