Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year C) - 27 June 2025
27th June 2025
"Since there is in the Sacred Heart a symbol and a sensible image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love one another, therefore is it fit and proper that we should consecrate ourselves to His most Sacred Heart – an act which is nothing else than an offering and a binding of oneself to Jesus Christ, seeing that whatever honour, veneration and love is given to this divine Heart is really and truly given to Christ Himself." - Pope Leo XIII, encyclical Annum Sacrum (1899)
The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 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 8.45am with Holy Mass at 9.30am. There will be Holy Hour this afternoon from 4.30pm to 5.30pm with Confession available between 5pm and 5.30pm.
Please come and join us in observing this holy and blessed day in honour of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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 that are committed against His Sacred Heart through humanity's 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 and spend time in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Your presence is a gesture of love for Him;
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. 💐💖🙏