The Heart of Jesus loved like no other, experienced joy and sorrow, compassion and grief. The Evangelists warn very often: he had compassion on the people, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. The small success of the Apostles in their first evangelizing outing made him feel as we do when we receive good news: he was filled with joy, says St. Luke; and he weeps, when death snatches away a friend.
Nor did he hide his disappointments from us: Jerusalem, you kill the prophets (...). How many times I have wanted to gather your children.... How many times! Jesus sees the history of the Old Testament and of all humanity: a part of the Jewish people and of the Gentiles of all times will reject divine love and mercy. In a way we can say that here God is weeping with human eyes for the sorrow contained in his heart of man. And this is the real meaning of devotion to the Sacred Heart: to translate for us the divine nature in human terms. Jesus was not indifferent - it is not indifferent now in our daily dealings with Him - when lepers did not return to thank Him after they had been cured, or the delicacies and hospitality shown to a guest, as He will say to Simon the Pharisee. He experienced on many occasions the immense joy of seeing someone repent of their sins and follow Him, or the generosity of those who left everything to go with Him, and He was infected by the joy of the blind who were beginning to see, perhaps for the first time.
Already before celebrating the Last Supper, thinking that he would remain with us always through the institution of the Eucharist, he said to those closest to him: I have ardently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; an emotion that must have been much more profound when he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: This is my Body..... And who can explain the sentiments of His most loving Heart when on Calvary He gave us His Mother as our Mother?
When he had already given his life to the Father, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out. That open wound reminds us today of the immense love that Jesus has for us, for he willingly gave us even the last drop of his precious Blood, as if we were alone in the world. How can we not approach Christ with confidence? What miseries can impede our love, if we have a heart big enough to ask for forgiveness?