Corpus Christi

 

Corpus Christi

2nd June. Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

Just one weekday Mass on Monday 9.30am 

              

2nd June. Tenth Sunday Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

JUNE: MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART

The secular world now dedicates months to all sorts of causes - some more worthy than others! Of course this is yet another idea stolen from the Church. Traditionally June has been the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Perhaps you might pray each day this month.

O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of ever blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen. 

The Devotion to the Sacred Heart: 

The modern form of the devotion began in the 1670s, when Jesus appeared multiple times to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun in France. Through these visions, He told her how He wished to be honored with the symbol of His heart, asking for the faithful to make amends for any wrongdoing they had done, frequently take Communion, and observe the Holy Hour. In 1856, the devotion was added to the church calendar by Pope Pius IX.

Significance of the Devotion: 

Jesus’s profound love for us is demonstrated through His willingness to sacrifice His life for our sake. The love from His heart motivated all His actions — His inner life manifested in His demonstrated virtues and sacrifice. Yet this great love is often received with ingratitude, even by the faithful. The purpose of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is to focus our hearts on receiving and returning His love with gratitude — with all of our heart, soul, and strength — that He may be glorified. Pope Pius XII explained that the devotion to the Sacred Heart is connected to our worship of Christ as God incarnate:  

It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful, purifying them, offering them heavenly strength, rousing them to the attainment of all virtues. Therefore, recalling those wise words of the Apostle St. James, “Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights… That all may understand more exactly the teachings which the selected texts of the Old and New Testament furnish concerning this devotion, they must clearly understand the reasons why the Church gives the highest form of worship to the Heart of the divine Redeemer.