Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year A) - 12 June 2026
12th June 2026
“Surely it is a source of profound consolation to know that we are loved so deeply by our Lord, Who constantly carries us in His heart.” - St Francis de Sales
The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is a day on which we can make a powerful Act of Reparation for all the wounds which have been, and are being, inflicted upon our Blessed Lord's Most Sacred Heart through the grave offences of sacrilegious reception of Holy Communion, black masses, the celebration of sinful acts and pride, and numerous blasphemies against His Most Precious Person and Holy Name.
Today there will be praying of the Rosary at 8.45am with Holy Mass at 9.30am. There will be Holy Hour this afternoon from 4.30pm to 5.30pm with Confession available between 5pm and 5.30pm.
Please come and join us in observing this holy and blessed day in honour of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The symbol of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a calling for all to put Jesus Christ into the centre of their lives. In June we especially honour the humility, love, and mercy of Our Blessed Lord Who died in atonement for our sins. Let us not forget His tremendous sacrifice and strive to make reparation for all the grave offences that are committed against His Sacred Heart through humanity's sinful pride and arrogance.
Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(A partial indulgence is granted the faithful who devoutly recite this Act of Reparation. This indulgence will be a plenary one when this Act of Reparation is publicly recited on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; with the usual conditions of reception of Holy Communion, Sacramental Confession (within 21 days), exclusion of all attachment to sin, and prayer for the Pope’s holy intentions)
Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for mankind is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.
Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offences, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the promises of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are now determined to make amends for the manifold offences against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behaviour, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints.
We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded. Would, O Divine Jesus, that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood!
We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honour, the satisfaction Thou once made to Thy Eternal Father on the Cross and which Thou continue to renew daily on our altars. We offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past.
Henceforth, we will live a life of unswerving faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and especially that of charity.
We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.
O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit Thou live and reign, God, forever and ever. Amen.
An excerpt from the homily given by St Josemaria Escriva on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 17, 1966. The homily is published by Scepter Publishers in the book Christ is Passing By:
God our Father has seen fit to grant us, in the heart of His Son, “infinite treasures of love,” mercy and affection. If we want to find evidence that God loves us — that He not only listens to our prayers but anticipates them — we need only follow the same line of thought as St Paul: “He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also give us all things in Him?”
Grace renews a man from within and converts a sinner and rebel into a good and faithful servant. The source of all grace is God’s love for us, and He has revealed this not just in words but also in deeds. It was divine love which led the second Person of the holy Trinity, the Word, the Son of God the Father, to take on our flesh, our human condition, everything except sin. And the Word, the Word of God, is the Word from which Love proceeds.
Love is revealed to us in the incarnation, the redemptive journey which Jesus Christ made on our earth, culminating in the supreme sacrifice of the cross. And on the cross it showed itself through a new sign: “One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.” This water and blood of Jesus speak to us of a self-sacrifice brought to the last extreme: “It is finished” — everything is achieved, for the sake of love.
Today when we consider once more the central mysteries of our faith, we are surprised to see how very human gestures are used to express the deepest truths: the love of God the Father Who gives up His Son, and the Son’s love which calmly leads Him to Calvary. God does not approach us in power and authority. No, He “takes the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man.” Jesus is never distant or aloof, although sometimes in His preaching He seems very sad, because He is hurt by the evil men do. However, if we watch Him closely, we will note immediately that His anger comes from love. It is a further invitation for us to leave infidelity and sin behind. “Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?” These words explain Christ’s whole life. They allow us to understand why He has come to us with a heart made of flesh, a heart like ours. This is a convincing proof of His love and a constant witness to the mystery of divine charity.
I must confide to you something which makes me very sorry and spurs me on to action: the thought of all those people who do not yet know Christ, who do not even suspect the great good fortune which awaits us in heaven. They live like blind men looking for a joy whose real name they don’t know, lost on roads which take them away from true happiness. How well one understands what Paul the Apostle must have felt that night in Troas when he had a vision in a dream: “A man of Macedonia was standing beseeching him and saying Come over to Macedonia and help us. And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.”
Don’t you also feel that God is calling us? Through the things which happen around us He is urging us to proclaim the good news of the coming of Jesus. Yet sometimes we Christians turn our calling into something very paltry. We become superficial and waste our time in dissension and jealousy. Or, worse still, some people are artificially scandalised by the way others choose to live certain aspects of the faith. Instead of doing all they can to help others, they set out to destroy and criticise. It is true that sometimes you find serious shortcomings in Christians’ lives. But the important thing is not ourselves and our shortcomings. The only thing that matters is Jesus. It is Christ we must talk about, not ourselves.
These reflections have been provoked by suggestions that there is a crisis in devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus. But there is no crisis. True devotion to the sacred heart has always been and is still truly alive, full of human and supernatural meaning. It has led and still leads to conversion, self-giving, fulfilment of God’s will and a loving understanding of the mysteries of the redemption.
The fullness of God is revealed and given to us in Christ, in the love of Christ, in Christ’s heart. For it is the heart of Him in Whom “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” Were one to lose sight of this great plan of God — the overflow of love in the world through the incarnation, the redemption and Pentecost — he could not understand the refinement with which our Lord deals with us.