First Friday in June Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sacred heart of Jesus
The month of June is singled out, in a particular way, for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. To celebrate the Heart of Christ means to turn toward the profound center of the Person of the Savior, that center which the Bible identifies precisely as his Heart, seat of the love that has redeemed the world. At the end you will have only Jesus and Mary. And they will be always there for you.
The Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During the days of June, we are urged to grow in our devotion to the Sacred Heart, so that we may remain more faithfully in the company of our Lord Jesus Who dwells with us always in the Church, especially in the Holy Eucharist. In fact, the fundamental image of the Sacred Heart is the crucifix depicting the pierced Heart of Jesus after He had died on the cross. Dom Dominic of Treves, a Carthusian monk who lived from 1384 to 1461, in promoting the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, wrote: Place all your sins in the Heart of Jesus. Through that Heart you should ask for grace and pardon, and should praise and bless God, not only for yourself, but for all who are committed to your care and for the whole Catholic Church, whose triumph you desire, invoking from the depth of your misery the depth of God’s mercy. Out of gratitude you will then often kiss a picture of the Heart of Jesus, of this most kind Heart, of this Heart in which are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God. If you have not a picture of the Sacred Heart, you can make use of one of Jesus on the Cross.
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has a richness of expressions. All of the expressions have a twofold dimension: 1) our ardent love of God in return for God’s immeasurable love of us; and 2) our reparation for the neglect, ingratitude and contempt which we and others have shown to Christ on the Cross, and on the altars and in the tabernacles of our chapels and churches. The two dimensions constitute a full response to the unceasing love of God for us, notwithstanding our frequent indifference and coldness before the signs of His love, above all, the Holy Eucharist.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart has two elements: consecration and reparation:
· We consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart by acknowledging Him as Creator and Redeemer and as having full rights over us as King of Kings, by repenting, and by resolving to serve Him.
· We make reparations for the indifference and ingratitude with which He is treated and for leaving Him abandoned by humanity.

Let us pray:-

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. We come to you with all our problems and pains. You are the only one who is never tired and weary of me. You give me comfort and consolation. Fill us with your love and mercy and never allow us to be away from your love and protections. I consecrate my whole life to your sacred heart with all its good and bad with full confidence that you will never reject and condemn me for my weakness. Make me and mold me as you wish me to be. Amen.