O Brother

Month of the
Sacred Hearth

Life is a great mystery before which we must not remain like spectators awaiting some new revelation.

The Revelation has been given, and wars, divisions within families, psychological, personal, emotional, or

other trials, have no resolution without a stripping away and an offering of our whole being to love, to the Sacred Heart of Christ.

To receive in our small and weak hearts the message of the eternal Heart of Jesus, it is necessary to make a simple but authentic act of offering. God brings me eternal Life, divine Love; what must I do? “I offer You everything; You do everything.”

(Fr. Theodossios Maria of the Cross)

O brother, all the visible things will pass,

and the man and his works

and his knowledge

and the earth and the firmament.

But above the movements, the distances,

the largest and the smallest numbers

and any radiation,

there is a life of peace without end

in the infinite love of God.

Mary, the Queen of Heaven and earth,

may lead you

to the kingdom of Christ.

Father Theodossios-Maria of the Cross (Theodossios Sgourdelis, 1909-1989), was born in Greece and lived in Paris where he carried out an intense activity in the field of the culture and the art. Later on he converted to Catholicism, he became priest and founded the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, first in Athens, then in Rome. At present the main seat of the Fraternity is in Bagnoregio (Italy), native land of Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church, where the Founder died and is buried in the church of the SS. Annunziata.