Saturday, June 13, 2026

Mary: guide, not goal...

 Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the
Blessed Virgin Mary

"Be Not Afraid; my Immaculate Heart will be 
your refuge and your safe passage to God."
Our Lady of Fatima


"Everything in Mary leads us toward her Son,
our only Savior, by whose foreseen merits she 
was preserved immaculate and full of grace;
everything in Mary lifts up our hearts
to the praise of the Holy Trinity.
The Church sees Mary, then, not as the goal, 
but as the guide, who always leads souls 
who honor her with true devotion – to her Son,
especially to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."
Fr Paul Duffner, O.P.


"Mary, give me your Heart: 
so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate:
your Heart so full of love and humility that 
I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life 
and love Him as you love Him and serve Him 
in the distressing guise of the poor."
St Teresa of Calcutta
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Immaculate Heart of Mary,
cause of our joy, lead us and pray for us!
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TODAY also remembering... 
St Anthony of Padua
Feast Day - June 13

"The Bread of Heaven satisfies every taste and hunger."
St Anthony of Padua

"From Lisbon, out of Portugal ... He went to Italy ... And there confounded heretics ... And conquered heresy ... He was God's holy orator ... Who spread the gospel true ... And whose great ardor made him one ... Of His selected few ... The legends now are legion  of ... His miracles on earth ... The patron saint of barren wombs ... And those that promise birth ... He also is the patron of ... The poor and the unfed ... As hungry mouths are opened for ... St Anthony's special bread ... And many are his followers ... Who feel in heart and mind ... That any article they lose ... St Anthony will find."  ~ From Poem Portraits of the Saints - James J Metcalfe (1956) 

Invite someone to Holy Mass 
- where hunger and thirst are satisfied!   
In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart it is fitting!
 St Anthony will help find the right person to ask!

St Anthony of Padua, pray for us!
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Friday, June 12, 2026

God's Heart calls to ours...

 Solemnity of the 
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
His love endures forever! (cf. Ps 136)
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"The very core of Christianity is expressed in the heart of Jesus ... 
the Love that saves us and even now makes us live in the eternity of God 
(John 3:16).  ... God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out 
of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in Him and by 
following His example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love."  
 Pope Benedict XVI



    "Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus infallibly leads souls to the Eucharist. Love for, and devotion to, the Eucharist infallibly leads souls to the mystery of God's infinite love symbolized for us by the Sacred Heart, a symbol necessary because love itself is immaterial and imperceptible: We need the sensible manifestation of the Divine Heart.
    So it is that the Sacred Heart, the Holy Eucharist, and Love itself, are one and the same thing; for in the Eucharist dwells Jesus, in Jesus His Heart, and in His Heart is infinite love. The Eucharist can be explained only by love; the love of Jesus is the love of His Heart, and so the Eucharist is explained only by the Sacred Heart. Drawn close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by cords of love, we receive into our own hearts the Eucharistic Lord in Holy Communion. It is not possible to carry fire in one's bosom and not become inflamed by it. Fire enkindles fire."
 Fr Richard Neilsen
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"I want to repose in your heart, because many souls have
thrown Me out of their hearts today." 
  Jesus to St Faustina

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"Love overcomes, love delights.
Those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice."
 St Bernadette

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“O Jesus, a soldier opened Your side with his lance, 
so that, through the gaping wound, we might know 
the charity of Your Heart, which loved us unto death, 
and that we might enter into Your unutterable love 
through the same channel by which it came to us.

Approach, then, O my soul, the Heart of Christ, 
that magnanimous Heart, that hidden Heart, that Heart
 which thinks of all things and knows all things; 
that loving Heart, all on fire with love. 
Make me understand, O Lord, that the door of Your Heart 
was forced open by the vehemence of Your love.
Allow me to enter into the secret of that love 
which was hidden from all eternity, but is 
now revealed by the wound in Your Heart.” 
St. Bernardine of Siena
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(with artwork, quotes, singing)
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In 2002 Pope St John Paul II designated
the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
as a World Day of Prayer 
for the Sanctification of Priests
O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests
within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart,
where none may touch them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.
Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with Your Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed
with the sublime mark of the priesthood.
Let Your holy love surround them and
shield them from the world's contagion.
Bless their labors with abundant fruit and
may the souls to whom they minister be their
joy and consolation here, and in Heaven their
beautiful and everlasting crown.  Amen.
St Therese of Lisieux
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"May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school!
Let us make our abode there. Let us study its 
movements and attempt to conform ours to them.  
Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there. "
St Claude de la Colombiere, S.J.

O, Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Man's created end...

For in the Son all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
and through Him to reconcile all things for Him,
making peace by the blood of His cross. - Colossians 1:19-20


Man was created for a certain end. 
This end is to praise, to reverence and 
to serve the Lord his God and by this means 
to arrive at eternal salvation. 
All other beings and objects that surround us on the earth were created for the benefit of man and to be useful 
to him, as means to his final end; hence his obligation 
to use, or to abstain from the use of, these creatures, 
according as they bring him nearer 
to that end, or tend to separate him from it."
St. Ignatius of Loyola - The Spiritual Exercises
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Remembering today... 


St Barnabas
Apostle*, Martyr (+60)
*Strictly speaking, Barnabas was not an apostle, 
but the title has been bestowed upon him 
since very early times. 
His first name was Joseph; 
Barnabas ("son of consolation") was a surname. 
St Paul's companion - 1st Missionary Journey
St. Luke described (Acts 6:24) Barnabas as
'a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith' 
Patron: Cyprus, Antioch, peace-keeping missions
Invoked for hailstorms
Feast Day - June 11 


St Barnabas, pray for us!
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Novena to the Sacred Heart 
 June 3-11
Solemnity:  12 June 2025
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Tonight:  Consecration of USA to the Sacred Heart of Jesus 
by USCCB; Basilica of the National Shrine of 
Mary, Queen of the Universe; Orlando, Florida

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Every Mass: a miracle...

 "God dwells in our midst, 
in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar."
St Maximilian Kolbe


"At every Mass a miracle occurs, nothing less.
Boundaries of time and space mysteriously disappear.
What Jesus did on the cross at Calvary 
becomes present in the here and now of 
every celebration of the Eucharist.  Thus, 
we not only draw near to the heart of Jesus 
beating in His chest at the Last Supper, 
we also draw near to 
His pierced heart on Calvary."
Fr James Kubicki, SJ
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Novena to the Sacred Heart 
 June 3-11
Solemnity:  12 June 2025
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

We need this Bread...

   As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith,
just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 
Colossians 2:6,7


"In taking flesh, the Son of God could become Bread 
and thus be the nourishment of his people, 
of us, journeying on in this world toward the 
promised land of heaven.  We need this Bread 
to face the fatigue and weariness of our journey."

Pope Benedict XVI

from his book Heart of the Christian Life: 
Thoughts on the Holy Mass
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Novena to the Sacred Heart 
 June 3-11
Solemnity:  12 June 2025

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