Pious souls, deeply afflicted by the outrages that the Sacred Heart of Jesus receives from careless and impious Christians, consecrate to It, in the spirit of reparation, the First Friday of each month.O sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thine altar eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries, to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject... (Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus)
The Byzantine Divine Liturgy was offered in Romanian today, and following the celebration of the Mysteries, were devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in honor of the first Friday of the month. I was delighted to find that such Western devotions are also practised by the Byzantines here.
In more mundane news, it finally stopped raining today. It seems like it's been raining ever since I got here, although I vaguely remember seeing the sun the first couple of days. It has rained so much here in the past week that the little stream that runs through the town has turned into a rushing river. Last week it was just winding gently along its way; you could even see the streambed quite clearly. Today, however, and it has already receded somewhat, it looks like this:
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