June - Month on the Sacred Heart & Popular Feast Days

June 2015: Month of the Sacred Heart

220px-Batoni_sacred_heartJune, the month of the Sacred Heart, focuses on the the entirety of Jesus as a person, that is, in His divine essence as the Son of God the Father.  Jesus became Incarnate out of pure love for us, and only wishes us to love Him with our entire being in return.

It is no surprise then, that this month emphasizes personal conversion through consecration. This means an attitude of conversion and reparation, of love and gratitude, apostolic commitment and dedication to Christ and His saving work.

This isn't done to earn "heavenly points", rather devotion to the Sacred Heart, as all the other devotions of the Church are to help one develop a health relationship with Jesus.  He is a person; it is easy to forget this. Do we talk to him daily, is he involved in our lives or do we treat him as a dead object? Do we only call on him when we need something?

June, the month of the Sacred Heart calls us to attention to look at how we treat Jesus; it encourages us to heal the parts in our lives where we do not allow Jesus to be present.

 

Dates in BOLD are Holy Days of Obligation for June:

June 1: St. Justin 

June 2: St. Marcellinus & Peter

June 3: St. Charles Lwanga  & Companions

June 4: St. Francis Caracciolo

June 5: Sacred Heart

June 6: St. Norbert

June 7: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ

June 8: St. William of York

June 9: St. Ephrem

June10: Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz

June 11: St. Barnabas

June 12: St. John Gaulbert, Abbot

June 13: St. Anthony of Padua

June 14: Eleventh  Sunday in Ordinary Time

June 15: St. Bonaventura 

June 16: St. Carmen

June 17: St Albert of

June18: St. Frederick

June 19: St. Romauld

June 20: St. Margaret of Antioch

June 21: Twelveth Sunday in Ordinary Time

June 22: St. Thomas More

June 23: St. Joseph Cafasso

June 24: Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

June 25: St. James the Greater

June 26: St. Joseph Maria Escriva

June 27: St. Cyril of Alexandria

June 28: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

June 29: Soleminity of St. Peter and St Paul

June 30: Blessed Raymond Lull

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