This week, we have talked about “Mary, Mother of the Church” and the Ember Days of Summer in the Octave of Pentecost (prayer and penance for the coming season). What else do we have to look forward to in this Month of June? Let’s look at a sampling, as we normally do….
Trinity Sunday is both an old and new feast. In the old, it marks the end of Eastertide and the beginning of the Season After Pentecost. However, we are still celebrating the Mystery of the Redemption, as we are still in the Easter Cycle, the Second Part of the Liturgical Year. A new Liturgical Year begins at Advent, when we contemplate the Mystery of the Incarnation.
We have several feasts of Our Lord this month and one for Our Lady. I get excited every June, when we celebrate the “back-to-back” feasts of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Let’s think in advance how we will honor these feasts together. We can be celebratory, since the Sacred Heart is a Solemnity! We honor 3 Doctors of the Church and several Apostles as well.
What can we do to give glory to the Sacred Heart of Jesus this month? We can educate ourselves about St. Margaret Mary and the Devotion that was given to her. Please see link on our last post and link below. The Sacred & Immaculate Hearts at EWTN, has a variety of wonderful prayers. One of Our Lord’s “12 Promises of the Sacred Heart” to St. Margaret Mary was: “I will bless those places wherein the image of my Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated.” If you do not already have this image in a place of honor in your home, that would be a great little project this month!
7-Trinity Sunday
9-St. Ephrem of Syria, Doctor
11-Corpus Christi
13-St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor
14-Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ (new version of Corpus Christi), St. Basil the Great, Doctor
18-St. Ephrem of Syria, Doctor (trad)
19-Most Sacred Heart of Jesus-Solemnity, no penance
20-Immaculate Heart of Mary
23-Vigil of St. John the Baptist
24-Nativity of St. John the Baptist (my 25th wedding anniversary:)
26-Sts. John & Paul
27-St. Cyril of Alexandria, Doctor
28-Vigil of Sts. Peter & Paul
29-Sts. Peter & Paul
30-Commemoration of St. Paul
We provide both old and new feasts.
Image courtesy Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in London-please read their page on the Sacred Heart.