CHRIST the HEART’S OCCUPANT: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Eph 3:17). John Tauler, preaching priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Strasbourg, Germany, was converted under the ministry of Nicolas of Basel in 1340. He was filled with the Holy Spirit just in time—the Black Death struck Strasbourg and Basel within a short time, taking 30,000 souls in these two cities alone. In one of his published sermons, he writes: “A pure heart is more precious in the sight of God than anything else on earth. A pure heart is a fair, fitly-adorned chamber, the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit; a golden temple of the Godhead; a sanctuary of the only-begotten Son…an altar of the grand divine Sacrifice, where the Son is offered daily in worship to the Father.…A pure heart is…a treasury of divine riches, a storehouse of divine sweetness, a panoply of eternal wisdom, a refuge of divine solitude, the reward of all the life and suffering of Christ.”