Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year B) - 7 June
7th June 2024
This year we are especially blessed as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus falls on the First Friday in June, which is the holy month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is a day on which we can make a powerful Act of Reparation for all the wounds which have been, and are being, inflicted upon our Blessed Lord's Most Sacred Heart through the grave offences of sacrilegious reception of Holy Communion, black masses, the celebration of sinful acts and pride, and numerous blasphemies against His Most Precious Person and Holy Name.
Today there will be praying of the Rosary at 11.30am with Holy Mass at 12 Noon followed by Adoration and Benediction. Please come and join us in observing this holy and blessed day in honour of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
There will also be an exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles at the church for public viewing from 10.30am to 11.30am and 1pm to 4.30pm. The exhibit also includes a first class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the young teenager who compiled the information in the exhibit into a website he created to show to the world 32 eucharistic miracles. A small donation is requested to view the exhibit to help cover the cost of the volunteers who transport the exhibit.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The symbol of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a calling for all to put Jesus Christ into the centre of their lives. In June we especially honour the humility, love, and mercy of Our Blessed Lord Who died in atonement for our sins. Let us not forget His tremendous sacrifice and strive to make reparation for all the grave offences we commit against His Sacred Heart through our sinful pride and arrogance.
Our Parish is named for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This coming month of June is a perfect opportunity to develop/strengthen our devotion to the Sacred Heart. Three simple ways to do this are:
1. Pray a Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus daily;
2. Visit a Catholic Church at least once a week and spend time in front of the Blessed Sacrament;
3. Give up something (like in lent) in reparation for the offenses committed against the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(A partial indulgence is granted the faithful who devoutly recite this Act of Reparation. This indulgence will be a plenary one when this Act of Reparation is publicly recited on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; with the usual conditions of reception of Holy Communion, Sacramental Confession (within 21 days), exclusion of all attachment to sin, and prayer for the Pope’s holy intentions)
Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for mankind is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.
Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offences, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the promises of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are now determined to make amends for the manifold offences against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behaviour, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints.
We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded. Would, O Divine Jesus, that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood!
We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honour, the satisfaction Thou once made to Thy Eternal Father on the Cross and which Thou continue to renew daily on our altars. We offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past.
Henceforth, we will live a life of unswerving faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and especially that of charity.
We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.
O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit Thou live and reign, God, forever and ever. Amen. 💐💖🙏