Sweet heart of Jesus - a Catholic hymn

I can still hear my mother singing this. She absolutely loved this rather simple hymn, so beloved also of Catholics all over the English-speaking world. Here is the second set of verses:

Sweet heart of Jesus, make us know and love thee,

unfold to us the treasures of thy grace;

that so our hearts, from things of earth uplifted,

may long alone to gaze upon thy face.

That's a marvellous little prayer, and summarises at once hundreds of years of Christian mysticism. Catholic mystics and visionaries have ever sought to achieve union with the Godhead through lives of profound prayer and contemplation. That may be beyond so many of the rest of us, because of the business of our lives, but it is not impossible at all. All of us may aspire to that goal of our spiritual lives. All of us may fall head-first into the love of God our Lord.