PODCAST | Synchronizing Your Heart to the Heart of Christ
In this podcast, Fr. Javier del Castillo reflects on how the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus reminds us of our “need to have a heart within us that beats at the same pace as Christ’s, because that’s what it means to be truly human.”
St. Augustine wrote, “You have made us for you, O Lord, and restless will our heart be until it rests in you.” Fr. Javier explains that “we can interpret this as our hearts will be restless until we actually synchronize our hearts to the heart of Christ.”
And, our hearts are made to be synchronized with the heart of Christ in timing, intensity, and extension. It is through these three aspects that God can renew our hearts so that we can truly love the way He wants us to love– in a human and divine way, with one heart with which we love God and with which we love everything else.
Only a heart synchronized to Jesus’ heart can love and can actually co-redeem with Him by loving with His own heart. And it all happens if we allow Him to do it… substituting our heart of stone with a heart of flesh which is capable of Divine Love.
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Rev. Javier del Castillo
Fr. Javier del Castillo is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and currently serves as President of the St. Josemaria Institute. He earned a degree in electronic engineering and moved to Rome to complete his ecclesiastical studies, where he was ordained a priest in 2005 and earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in 2007. He worked as a chaplain in high schools in the Washington, D.C. and Chicago areas for several years, offering spiritual accompaniment to students, parents, and teachers. From 2015 on, he served as the vicar of Opus Dei in the midwest; he was appointed regional vicar of the United States in 2022. He became vicar of the United States and Canada in 2024, following the restructuring of the regions, until his appointment as Vicar General in April 2025.
