We all long for life. Life is pure gift, and the kind of life Jesus offers us is made accessible only through Him, only through and on account of the Sacred Heart, pierced open in love for the world. To help us deepen in this week's feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this meditation includes the second reading from the Office of Readings for the feast from St Bonaventure (Opusculum 3, Lignum vitae, 29-30. 47: Opera omnia 8, 79), as well as a song that Kathryn has written reflecting on this passage.