Memorial of St. Dominic

“I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts” (Jer. 31:33). The tablet of the heart refers to the place where God speaks intimately with us. The Word of God is to be inscribed in the human heart and not chiseled in stone. The Word of God, ensconced in the core of our being must become part of our very nature. The Word of God is not intended to be inscribed on some beautiful monument. It is meant to be incarnated in the sweaty bodies of those working to build the Kingdom of God. The Word of God is not “out there” memorialized in granite slabs. No, the Word of God is “in here” inscribed on the fleshy tablets of our hearts.

The Word of God became flesh and walked among us to change our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. Being a man like us in everything except sin, Christ reveals man to himself. He who is the image of the invisible God shows us how to enter into communion with the Triune God and one another. What is written on the tablets of our hearts becomes the abundance from which our mouths speak. I’ll leave you with a thought from Saint Irenaeus: “The Word became the dispenser of the Father’s grace…He showed God to man and man to God…For the glory of God is the living man, and the life of man is the vision of God. If the revelation of God by the creation already gives life to all the beings living on earth, how much more does the manifestation of the Father by the Word give life to those who see God” (Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 4.20.7, trans. Robert M. Grant, Irenaeus of Lyons).