The Sacred Heart present in the Eucharist Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother, have mercy on us.Ģ. How could it not be, after her heart had beat for His, her heart had formed His, her heart had suffered with His! And indeed, when His side was pierced on the Cross thirty-three years later, so too was her heart pierced with sorrow. Mary, the glory of our race, enabled the Heart of God to beat for us.Īs Mary and Joseph brought the Child Jesus to the temple for the first time, Simeon prophesied that the heart of Mary would be pierced (Luke 2:35). The Savior of the world not only chose to take on our flesh, but entered the world in a condition of total dependence. As a result, the anatomy of the child’s heart actually changes. Two shunts, which had enabled blood to bypass the heart and liver, close so that the beating of the heart might pump blood throughout the body.įor nine long months, the Immaculate Heart of Mary beat for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and her lungs breathed for His. As the infant’s lungs begin to inflate and deflate, fluid clears from the alveoli and blood pressure rises. Then, oxygen-rich blood traverses the umbilical cord to the child’s liver, and from there, to the rest of the body.Ī baby’s umbilical cord is clamped at birth, ending this intimate connection between child and mother. At the same time, waste products move from the fetus to the mother. Nutrients and oxygen move across a thin layer of cells in the placenta, from the blood of the mother to that of the fetus. Instead, the mother’s body ‘breathes’ for the baby through the placenta, an organ formed by the child and mother together. The fetal heart cannot pump oxygenated blood through the circulatory system, because the lungs cannot breathe. But throughout pregnancy, the heart cannot actually perform its function.
In the womb, the fetal heart begins beating rapidly by about the third week of life, and it is strong enough to be detected by the sixth week. The science of a baby’s heart development shows the fragility of the Heart of our Savior. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame (go Irish) 1.
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