The Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is
celebrated on the Friday that follows the second Sunday
after Pentecost. This year it will be on

 Friday June 11, 2021

The Month of June is dedicated to the
Sacred Heart.
In addition to the liturgical celebration, many devotional exercises are connected
with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Of all devotions, devotion to the Sacred Heart was,
and remains, one of the most widespread and popular in the Church.

Understood in the light of the Scriptures, the term "Sacred Heart of Jesus"
denotes the entire mystery of Christ, the totality of his being, and his person
considered in its most intimate essential: Son of God, uncreated wisdom; infinite
charity, principal of the salvation and sanctification of mankind. The "Sacred
Heart" is Christ, the Word Incarnate, Saviour, intrinsically containing, in the Spirit,
an infinite divine-human love for the Father and for his brothers.

Excerpted from the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy

The Popes on Devotion to the Sacred Heart
 The feast of the Sacred Heart was approved for specified
 dioceses by Clement XIII in 1765, and extended to the whole
 Church by Pius IX in 1856. In 1889 Pope Leo XIII elevated it
 to the rank of first class, and through an encyclical letter in
 1899 dedicated the whole Catholic world to the Sacred
 Heart of Jesus.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart was also an essential component of Pope John Paul
II's hopes for the "new evangelization" called for by the Church.

"For evangelization today," he said, "the Heart of Christ must be recognized as the
heart of the Church: It is He who calls us to conversion, to reconciliation. It is He
who leads pure hearts and those hungering for justice along the way of the
Beatitudes. It is He who achieves the warm communion of the members of the
one Body. It is He who enables us to adhere to the Good News and to accept the
promise of eternal life. It is He who sends us out on mission. The heart-to-heart
with Jesus broadens the human heart on a global scale."

Here are some of the relevant documents: Leo XIII in his Encyclical Letter Annum
sacrum (1889) on the consecration of mankind to the Sacred Heart; Pius XI
in Caritate Christi Compulsi (On The Sacred Heart) and Miserentissimus
Redemptor (On Reparation To The Sacred Heart); Pius XII in his Encyclical
Letter Haurietis aquas; Paul VI in his Apostolic Letter Investigabiles divitias
Christi (1965) and John Paul II in Message on the centenary of the consecration of
mankind to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1999), in L'Osservatore Romano, 12 June
1999.

 An Act of Consecration to the
 Sacred Heart of Jesus

 Most sweet Jesus, humbly kneeling at Thy feet, we
 renew the consecration of our family to Thy Divine
 Heart. Be Thou our King forever! In Thee we have
 full and entire confidence. May Thy spirit penetrate
 our thoughts, our desires, our words and our deeds.
 Bless our undertakings, share in our joys, in our
 trials, and in our labors. Grant us to know Thee
 better, to love Thee more, to serve Thee without
 faltering.

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Hi everyone: how are you doing? I hope and pray that you are all doing well.
Happy Solemnity of the Corpus Christi; may the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament be
the King of our lives.

I would like to remind you of a couple of things:

MAY COMPETITIONS WINNERS
We have the winners for the competitions organized to celebrate May, the month
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thank you to all participants and congratulations to
the winners!! Prizes will be delivered to you soon…
Coloring contest winner: Emily Moyer
Costume contest winner: Lorain D’Souza
Mary altar contest winners: Sturgess Family (first place); Ironside Family
(second place)
Special prizes:
All around participation prize: Evelyn and Harriet Maloney, the only ones to
enter all three contests.
Most creative use of materials prize: Susan King for wood-burning images of
Mary;

SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
June 6th is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus
Christ.
We will have:
 -Eucharistic Adoration on May 5th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at St John
the Baptist Church (300 Wilson St) Please sign up on this link :
https://www.picktime.com/bookmass
 -Eucharistic Procession: to be done in our cars like last year. If you would
like you may decorate your car with Eucharistic motives (more details at the
bottom of this page)

NEW PASTOR FR. ALEX SALAZAR, IVE
Fr. Alex Salazar, will be travelling from the USA to Canada on June 9th. He needs
our prayers so he may cross the border without any problems.

NO 12:00 NOON MASSES ON SUNDAY
There will be no more 12:00 noon Masses on Sunday. The Rector of the Cathedral
announced that they are going to have Sunday Masses at the Knights of Columbus
Parking lot. Our Sunday Masses are at 10:00 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Latin Mass).

DAILY MASSES – REMINDER
Please remember that you have to sign up for the weekday Masses. The sisters
updates the link every Saturday for you to go in and sign up to reserve a seat for
any specific Mass during that week. This is the link:
https://www.picktime.com/bookmass Our weekday Masses are 8:00 a.m. from
Monday to Friday at St John the Baptist and 7:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday at
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. This Wednesday there won’t be Mass in our
Churches because I have to pick up Fr. Alex somewhere around Niagara Falls.

JUNE IS THE MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Please join us for the Novena Prayer I sent last week; or for a three days prayer
(June 8, 9 and 10) There are hard copies of the Prayer at the entrance of Sacred
Heart of Jesus Church and St John the Baptist Church. Let us try to practice our
devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus by doing something especial for Him
every day during the Month of June.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ON FRIDAY AT SACRED HEART
Let me remind you that we still have Eucharistic Adoration at Sacred Heart of
Jesus Parish every Friday from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. (you do not need to sign up; just
write your name in the logbook at the entrance of the Church) This Friday June 4 th
there will not be confessions because I have to travel to Toronto to pick up the
monstrance for our Sunday Eucharistic procession.

CONGRATULATIONS to all those who have participated in the preparation for
the consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary and had made their consecration on
the 31st of May, feast day of the Visitation. We have 18 new children of the
Blessed Mother in our communities…

EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION GUIDELINES
Date: June 6th 2021
Departure time: 4:00 p.m. from the parking lot of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish
Route: before leaving the parking lot the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and
a 1st Eucharistic blessing will take place. After this we will make:
left into Aylmer St;
enter into YMCA parking lot for a 2nd Eucharistic Blessing;
right to Aylmer St
right to Princess St
left into Park St
left in King George St
left in Lock St

left in McGill St
right into George St we stop at the Peterborough Memorial Centre for a 3rd
Eucharistic blessing
right again into George St
left into Romaine St;
right into Aylmer St
right into the parking lot of Sacred Heart where we will proceed to the 4 th
Eucharistic blessing.

*if you cannot follow the cars because of the stop lights just meet us at the parking
lots mentioned above (Sacred Heart, YMCA and Peterborough Memorial Centre);
*the radio frequency will be the same we use for the Holy Mass- FM 98.5. We will
be praying the Holy Rosary, singing and reading some material from the
Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the Holy Eucharist
*please stay always in your cars and follow the instructions of those in charge.