By Philip Quirke
How many pleas for oneself or others,
asking favours general or specific, begin:
‘O Sacred Heart of Jesus,
I place all my trust in Thee’?
How many sighs of gratitude
mist the picture glass
as it reflects the supplicant
lifting eyes to meet His loving eyes,
‘O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee’? How many waves of terror crash and founder on the breakwater of ‘O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee’? And sometimes in a Silence the speaker simply listens to the Sacred Heart of Jesus say, “I place all MY TRUST in THEE!”