June 2023

Jun
29

July is dedicated to the Precious Blood

The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood. “The Precious Blood which we worship is the Blood which the Savior shed for us on Calvary and reassumed at His glorious Resurrection; it is the Blood which courses through the veins of His risen, glorified, living body at the right Read More»

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Jun
17

Happy Father’s Day

Father’s Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June.  It celebrates the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children’s lives. Its origins may lie in a memorial service held for a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were killed in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907. Read More»

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Jun
07

Day 1 – June 7th

This was a favorite prayer of St. Padre Pio and he prayed it every day.Here are the Novena prayers for the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Prayers Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Day 1 -9 Join in praying the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be Read More»

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Jun
07

Corpus Christi Procession (bilingual) on Sunday, June 11, after 12:00 Mass

Our Sacred Heart Parish will hold its Corpus Christi Procession (bilingual) on Sunday, June 11, after 12:00 Mass. We invite all of you to join us in this most glorious display of our veneration and belief that Jesus is present in the Eucharist. At the conclusion of Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be processed out of the church and onto the grounds. The procession should move at a slow and reverent speed through the designated route around Sacred Heart Parish campus and we will stop four times to listen to the passages from the Gospel. At the conclusion of the Read More»

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Jun
01

June is the Month of the Sacred Heart

in recognition of Jesus’ apparitions starting in 1673 to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a member of the Visitation Sisters, through whom He asked for devotion to His Sacred Heart. In that first apparition, Jesus enveloped St. Margaret Mary in a mystical experience of His love. She reported that Jesus allowed her “to recline for a long time on His divine breast, where He disclosed to me the marvels of His love and the unutterable secrets of His Sacred Heart.” In His second apparition to her, a First Friday in 1674, Jesus showed St. Margaret His Heart, “more dazzling than Read More»

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