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Solemnity Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary
EWTN ^ | June 1, 2005

Posted on 06/01/2005 8:34:47 AM PDT by NYer

Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : June 03, 2005 : Sacred Heart of Jesus

"I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment" (Jesus to St. Margaret Mary).

Sixteenth century Calvinism and seventeenth Jansenism preached a distorted Christianity that substituted for God's love and sacrifice of His Son for all men the fearful idea that a whole section of humanity was inexorably damned.

The Church always countered this view with the infinite love of our Savior who died on the cross for all men. The institution of the feast of the Sacred Heart was soon to contribute to the creation among the faithful of a powerful current of devotion which since then has grown steadily stronger. The first Office and Mass of the Sacred Heart were composed by St. John Eudes, but the institution of the feast was a result of the appearances of our Lord to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1675. The celebration of the feast was extended to the general calendar of the Church by Pius IX in 1856.

Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : June 04, 2005 : Immaculate Heart of Mary

In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession "peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue" (Decree of May 4, 1944).

Today is also the feast of St. Romuald, who was born in Ravenna (Italy) of a noble family. Founder of the Camaldolese monks, he was a hermit and a reformer of the monastic customs of his time. He died after a life of prayer and rigorous penance. Before the reform of the Calendar in 1969 his feast was celebrated on February 7, the anniversary of the translation of his relics in 1481. His feast is now June 19, the day he died in 1027. In the Calendar reform the Church has tried to move the feasts of the saints to their "birthday" — referring to the day on which the saint died and celebrated his/her birth into heaven.


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1 posted on 06/01/2005 8:34:49 AM PDT by NYer
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To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...



Sacred Heart Of Jesus

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Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Blessed be the Most Loving Heart and Sweet Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the most glorious Virgin Mary, His Mother, in eternity and forever. Amen.

....Only the Heart of Christ who knows the depths of his Father's love could reveal to us the abyss of his mercy in so simple and beautiful a way ----From the Catechism. P:1439

From the depth of my nothingness, I prostrate myself before Thee, O Most Sacred, Divine and Adorable Heart of Jesus, to pay Thee all the homage of love, praise and adoration in my power.
Amen. - -
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it invokes his most holy name. It adores the incarnate Word and his Heart which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins. Christian prayer loves to follow the way of the cross in the Savior's steps.-- From the Catechism. P: 2669

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes) The Salutation to the Heart of Jesus and Mary

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)   An Offering of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

 

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes) Novena Prayer to Sacred Heart  of Jesus

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes) Prayer to the Wounded Heart of Jesus

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)  Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)  Meditation & Novena Prayer on the Sacred Heart

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes) Beads to the Sacred Heart

 

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)  Novena Prayer to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 WB01539_.gif (682 bytes) A Solemn Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)  The Daily Offering to the  Immaculate Heart of Mary

WB01539_.gif (682 bytes)  Exaltation of the Immaculate  Heart of Mary

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2 posted on 06/01/2005 8:45:21 AM PDT by NYer ("Love without truth is blind; Truth without love is empty." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

***Sixteenth century Calvinism and seventeenth Jansenism preached a distorted Christianity that substituted for God's love and sacrifice of His Son for all men the fearful idea that a whole section of humanity was inexorably damned.***

Are YOU saying that ALL will be saved? Muslims will be saved through their belief in Allah? Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved through their belief in their works for the church? Mormons will be saved by their belief in their church? Is this what you are saying? Because the Calvinist willingly come out and say that not all will be saved, this gives you the excuse to jump all over them?


3 posted on 06/01/2005 8:45:27 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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Please post any Community Notices from your area, with regard to special celebrations.

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All Night Vigil
Troy, NY
Friday, June 3, 2005 to Saturday, June 4, 2005

YOU ARE INVITED to the 26th Annual All-Night Vigil observance of the Feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, at St. Joseph’s Church, South Troy.

Friday June 3rd to Saturday, June 4th.

6:15 p.m. outdoor Rosary procession;
7 p.m. Concelebrated Mass of the Sacred Heart;
8 p.m. Holy Hour for Priests;
Devotions, Homilies, Sacrament of Reconciliation throughout the night.

The Vigil will conclude with 3 a.m. Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Maronite Divine Liturgy. Fr. Elie Kairouz, celebrant.

Please join us for all or any part of this 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION and give Glory to God in this Year of the Eucharist!

For further details, call (518) 674-2916 or (518) 273-8831.

4 posted on 06/01/2005 8:52:43 AM PDT by NYer ("Love without truth is blind; Truth without love is empty." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: irishtenor

Of course not.


5 posted on 06/01/2005 9:08:15 AM PDT by NYer ("Love without truth is blind; Truth without love is empty." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

Are Muslims damned? Are Jehovah's Witnesses damned? Are those who believe in a savior other than Jesus damned?


6 posted on 06/01/2005 9:52:54 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor

Unless they all repent, and accept Jesus Christ as Lord, and accept what He taught, they will not be saved.


7 posted on 06/01/2005 10:22:41 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

That is the Calvinist position, NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. And they castigate us for believing it.


8 posted on 06/01/2005 10:23:50 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor

Not exactly. Didn't Calvin believe in predestination, that even some who were faithful Christians were damned?


9 posted on 06/01/2005 10:27:09 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

No, Calvin believed that all who were predestined would be saved. If you were a faithful believer, then you were predestined to that salvation. It was God's choice, not man's works that saved him.


10 posted on 06/01/2005 10:29:49 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor

Then Calvin denies free will I guess?


11 posted on 06/01/2005 10:36:48 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

Most assuredly. That is, if you are talking about the ability of man, on his own, deciding to follow Jesus. The Bible is full of scripture that says that man cannot come to God on his own volition. It is God who calls, it is God who predestines, it is God who saves.


12 posted on 06/01/2005 10:41:55 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor
Admittedly, I am not entirely learned with the theological differences between Catholicism and Calvinism.

However, what you have written so far is quite similar to what I just read in a book titled "Spiritual Combat Revisited." To quote, "The [Catholic] Church understands this [James 1: 17] to mean that left to ourselves, we cannot please God and inherit eternal life." Also, "There is a tendency we all have to claim our good actions as our own and the bad things we do as not pertaining to ourselves in the same way. The truth is the reverse: The good things we do are the result of God's grace and mercy, and the evil things we do are the sign of what we really are."

13 posted on 06/01/2005 11:06:52 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

I like to put it this way...

If you were to pay one cent for an object that cost $1000, you still purchased it. It is something that is owed you. If the object were given to you, it would be a gift, you did not earn it, it was freely given.

God's grace is a free gift, given to those he loves. If my effort payed for even one second of that grace, then it wouldn't be free, it would be something earned. I do good works because I am given God's grace to do so. Not so that I can buy my way into heaven. It is free, it is a gift, it is all God's work and effort. It is he who decides who he gives it to.


14 posted on 06/01/2005 11:15:07 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor
God's grace is a free gift, given to those He loves.

Since we are all created in His Image, doesn't that mean, at least at the point of our creation, that He loves us all?

15 posted on 06/01/2005 11:30:51 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

Not really. He said "Jacob I loved, Esau I hated". At creation, he pronounced it all good, but then sin entered into the world by way of Adam, and it hasn't been good since.


16 posted on 06/01/2005 11:37:41 AM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: irishtenor

What, Jesus' Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection, didn't change things?


17 posted on 06/01/2005 12:13:52 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

Yes, to those God chose. There is no universal attonement, otherwise, why even worry about death. Only those whom God chose to adopt into his family will be saved (and no, I don't believe it is only Protestants, either. All who believe in Jesus will be saved.)


18 posted on 06/01/2005 12:58:08 PM PDT by irishtenor (Did I say something wrong? Or just intolerant?)
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To: NYer
Please post any Community Notices from your area, with regard to special celebrations.

Thanks for the idea.

At Sacred Heart Church, Dunn, N.C., Solemn High Mass (Tridentine), Friday, June 3, 6:30 p.m.



I expect that Fr Paul Parkerson will be priest at the Mass, but I don't know who will be deacon and sub-deacon.

I've been told that a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions is available to those attending at the Mass, since this feast is the 'patron' of the parish (someone please correct my way of expressing this).

Directions to Sacred Heart Church:
Take Exit 73 off I-95, and turn right onto US-421. Proceed less than one and a half miles, then turn right onto South McKay Ave. You will see the church and adjacent parking lot.

19 posted on 06/02/2005 3:49:32 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko
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To: NYer
 
Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus


I. 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 opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of...... (here name your request)
Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory Be to the Father....Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.


II. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you." Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of.......(here name your request) Our Father...Hail Mary....Glory Be To the Father....Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

III. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away." Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of.....(here name your request) Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory Be to the Father...Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

-- St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
 
Padre Pio recited this novena every day for all those who requested his prayers.

 

20 posted on 06/02/2005 8:56:59 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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