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MariaChristi
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1944 to be celebrated on 22nd August, coinciding with the traditional octave day of the Assumption. In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the Saturday, immediately after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This means in practice that it is now held on the third Saturday after Pentecost.
Concentrating on the liturgical Feasts pf Pentecost and the Sundays following, I forgot the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be celebrated this coming Saturday – the Saturday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart. I’m not sure if it will an option for priests since it is also the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24. The liturgical calendar at the USCCB site makes no mention of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, nor does the calendar from the National Shrine in Washington, DC.
In a way, those three Feasts are connected, since the Heart of Jesus began to beat within the Womb of Mary, beneath her Immaculate Heart, and not soon after she conceived Jesus, she went with haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth who held St. John The Baptist within her womb. What a beautiful scene Luke describes in His Gospel, when Mary entered the house of Elizabeth and Zachary:
May we strive to love those two Pierced Hearts more, and offer reparation to Them, daily, for our sins and the sins of the whole world.
Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1944 to be celebrated on 22nd August, coinciding with the traditional octave day of the Assumption. In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the Saturday, immediately after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This means in practice that it is now held on the third Saturday after Pentecost.
Concentrating on the liturgical Feasts pf Pentecost and the Sundays following, I forgot the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be celebrated this coming Saturday – the Saturday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart. I’m not sure if it will an option for priests since it is also the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24. The liturgical calendar at the USCCB site makes no mention of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, nor does the calendar from the National Shrine in Washington, DC.
In a way, those three Feasts are connected, since the Heart of Jesus began to beat within the Womb of Mary, beneath her Immaculate Heart, and not soon after she conceived Jesus, she went with haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth who held St. John The Baptist within her womb. What a beautiful scene Luke describes in His Gospel, when Mary entered the house of Elizabeth and Zachary:
Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary are important devotions – especially in our day when God and His Mother are so often neglected, and even worse are blasphemed. Devotion to the Sacred Heart has a long history, while devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has been more recently emphasized by the Fatima apparitions and Mary’s words to Sister Lucia: “Jesus wants…to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” – quote from Sister Lucia’s bok, Calls from the Message of Fatima"
May we strive to love those two Pierced Hearts more, and offer reparation to Them, daily, for our sins and the sins of the whole world.